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Aesthetic a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty, art, and taste and with the creation and appreciation of beauty.
To wield at one's command or disposal
To evoke to summon or call forth.
Foundational the act of founding, especially the establishment of an institution with provisions for future maintenance.
Oligarchy government by a few, especially by a small faction of persons or families.
Ignoble not noble in quality, character, or purpose; base or mean.
inimical injurious or harmful in effect.
To indulge To yield to the desires and whims of, especially to an excessive degree; humor.
Anguish Agonizing physical or mental pain; torment.
Complacent Contented to a fault; self-satisfied and unconcerned
To ascertain To discover with certainty, as through examination or experimentation
Satirist a humorist who uses ridicule and irony and sarcasm.
Notable Worthy of note or notice; remarkable.
Inclination characteristic disposition to do, prefer, or favor one thing rather than another; a propensity.
Vigilance the process of paying close and continuous attention.
To facilitate To make easy or easier
Unremitting- Never slackening; persistent.
Rectitude The quality or condition of being correct in judgment
Temperance Moderation and self-restraint, as in behavior or expression.
Habitual Established by long use; usual
Trifle Something of little importance or value
Perpetual Lasting for eternity
To eradicate To tear up by the roots.
Benevolent - Characterized by or suggestive of doing good
Incorrigible Incapable of being corrected or reformed
Assumption The act of taking to or upon oneself
Empirical Relying on or derived from observation or experiment
Tentative Not fully worked out, concluded, or agreed on; provisional
Ethnography The branch of anthropology that deals with the scientific description of specific human cultures.
Implication An indirect indication; a suggestion
Predominantly Having greatest ascendancy, importance, influence, authority, or force.
Affluent Generously supplied with money, property, or possessions; prosperous or rich.
Intricate Having many complexly arranged elements; elaborate
Rote A memorizing process using routine or repetition, often without full attention or comprehension
Coherence - the state of cohering or sticking together
To conceptualize have the idea for
To infer To conclude from evidence or premises
To dissuade To deter (a person) from a course of action or a purpose by persuasion or exhortation.
Perfunctory Done routinely and with little interest or care
Capricious Characterized by or subject to whim; impulsive and unpredictable
Sarcasm cutting, often ironic remark intended to wound.
Cognitive Having a basis in or reducible to empirical factual knowledge
Exasperation an exasperated feeling of annoyance
Equitable implying justice dictated by reason, conscience, and a natural sense of what is fair to all.
Peripheral Related to, located in, or constituting an outer boundary or periphery.
Admonition Mild, kind, yet earnest reproof.
Ambiguous Open to more than one interpretation.
Sophisticated To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and worldlier.
To demarcate- To set the boundaries of; delimit
Tacit Not spoken
To elucidate To make clear or plain, especially by explanation; clarify
Evanescent Vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor
Tenured appointed for life and not subject to dismissal except for a grave crime.
Unheralded - without warning or announcement
Ornery Mean-spirited, disagreeable, and contrary in disposition; cantankerous
Provost university administrator of high rank. Chief exe. Officer john mastonson
Moot no point no significance..
Recondite Not easily understood; abstruse
Curt Using few words; terse.
Clerics member of clergy
Referendum public vote
Menial appropriate to a servant.
Flux a continued flow
Apropos with regard to
tangible concrete; can grab it
transpose carry over; transferred.
subservient useful in a inferior passat; dependent
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