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Be nice. We're all here to better understand the various obvious and hidden influences on our often stressful world
Be nice. We're all here to better understand the various obvious and hidden influences on our often stressful world.
Be nice. We're all here to better understand the various obvious and hidden influences on our often stressful world.
S.O.P. = Standard Operationg Procedures
Main Entry: tim·o·rous
Etymology: Middle English, from Medieval Latin timorosus, from Latin timor fear, from timēre to fear
Date: 15th century
1 : of a timid disposition : fearful
2 : expressing or suggesting timidity
Main Entry: his·to·ric·i·ty
: historical actuality
Main Entry: prae·to·ri·an
Variant(s): also pre·to·ri·an \prē-ˈtȯr-ē-ən\
Function: adjective
Date: 15th century
1 often capitalized : of, forming, or resembling the Roman imperial bodyguard
2 : of or relating to a praetor
— praetorian noun often capitalized
Main Entry: lamb·da
Pronunciation: \ˈlam-də\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English, from Greek, of Semitic origin; akin to Hebrew lāmedh lamed
Date: 15th century
1 : the 11th letter of the Greek alphabet — see alphabet table
2 : an uncharged unstable elementary particle that has a mass 2183 times that of an electron and that decays typically into a nucleon and a pion
Main Entry: FIE
Pronunciation: \ˈfī\
Function: interjection
Etymology: Middle English fi, from Anglo-French
Date: 14th century
—used to express disgust or disapproval
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Main Entry: 1ac·ces·sion
Pronunciation: \ik-ˈse-shən, ak-\
Function: noun
Date: 1588
1 a : increase by something added b : acquisition of additional property (as by growth or increase of existing property)
2 : something added : acquisition
3 : the act of assenting or agreeing
4 a : the act of becoming joined : adherence b : the act by which one nation becomes party to an agreement already in force between other powers
5 a : an act of coming near or to : approach, admittance b : the act of coming to high office or a position of honor or power
6 : a sudden fit or outburst : access
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Main Entry: co·gent
Pronunciation: \ˈkō-jənt\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin cogent-, cogens, present participle of cogere to drive together, collect, from co- + agere to drive — more at agent
Date: 1659
1 : having power to compel or constrain
2 a : appealing forcibly to the mind or reason : convincing b : pertinent, relevant
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Main Entry: om·ni·scient
Pronunciation: \-shənt\
Function: adjective
Etymology: New Latin omniscient-, omnisciens, back-formation from Medieval Latin omniscientia
Date: circa 1604
1 : having infinite awareness, understanding, and insight
2 : possessed of universal or complete knowledge
Main Entry: soph·ist
Pronunciation: \ˈsä-fist\
Function: noun
Etymology: Latin sophista, from Greek sophistēs, literally, expert, wise man, from sophizesthai to become wise, deceive, from sophos clever, wise
Date: 14th century
1 : philosopher
2 capitalized : any of a class of ancient Greek teachers of rhetoric, philosophy, and the art of successful living prominent about the middle of the fifth century b.c. for their adroit subtle and allegedly often specious reasoning
3 : a captious or fallacious reasoner