- Moratorium: temporary prohibition of an activity (the moratorium on hunting licenses will give the deer population time to expand).
- Allayed: diminished or put at rest, lessen or mitigate (the antidote allayed the pain, the policy did not allay the discontent of the Macedonian army).
- Amenable: liable to be called to account, answerable (you are amenable for this debt) or willing/ready to submit (the Jordanian leader seemed amenable to discussing the matter).
- Visceral: relating to deep inward feelings rather than to intellect (visceral fear of change) ♥
- Discordant: disagreeing, incongruous (discordant opinions, his plan is discordant with ours) or structurally uncomfortable sounding (blatant discordance in the their speeches for the rally).
- Cacophonous: having a harsh/discordant sound (the wild and cacophonous night, she raised the amulet, the cacophony around her rising as the inmates glimpsed at their freedom).
- Antipathy: a natural or habitual repugnance; aversion, strong hostility towards something (the public's antipathy towards the government). ♥
- Placid: serenely quiet or undisturbed, tranquil, not easily angered or excited (the swift and indifferent placidity of that look troubled me).
- Indue: to assume/wear the garments of; by assuming clothes, also assuming morals (to reindue -wear for second or third time- that hated personality).
- Acquiescence: the reluctant acceptance of something without protest (passive acquiescence to a U.S. military presence, the policemen withdrew their firearms in silent acquiescence).
- Iridescent: showing luminous colors that seem to change from different angles, opalescent (iridescent violet butterfly, an iridescent shade of modern society).
- Troglodytic: one who creeps into holes, cave dweller, a recluse (a desperate troglodyte existence, visits to troglodyte churches).
- Presuppose: to tactfully assume or to require as a precondition of possibility or coherence (self realization presupposes awareness of the soul).
- Asceticism: severe self-discipline and avoidance of all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons (the values behind sacrificial asceticism).
- Proprioception: (unconscious) perception of positioning of bodies, of movement and spatial orientation arising from stimuli within the body.
- Polyphony: simultaneously combining a number of parts, each forming an individual melody and harmonizing with each other (polyphonic literature). ♥
- Reconnaissance: military observation of a region to locate an enemy or ascertain strategic features (an aerial reconnaissance for the missing in what was left of her heart).
- Somatic: of or relating to the body as distinguished from the psyche or soul (poetry as somatic, as physical). ♥
- Contiguity: the state of bordering/contact; things that are contiguous are near or next to but not actually touching and yet they are also defined as "touching, sharing a border". ♥
- Reticent: not revealing one's thoughts/feelings easily; reserved/withdrawn (she was reticent about her past).
- Subversive: intending to subvert/overthrow an established regime/political system (the film was deemed subversive and banned, subversive catharsis).
- Insurgents: individuals fighting against the government/army of their own nation.
- Fester: to aggravate/rot/cause ulceration or rankle, as a feeling of resentment (resentments are beginning to fester, the wound is festering).
- Prosaic: dull, commonplace (But I suspect a more prosaic motive).
- Solipsistic: of or characterized by solipsism, or the theory that only the self exists (your love must be very solipsistic if you never think about how she feels).
- Indemnify: to compensate for loss sustained (the act was written specifically to indemnify Native Americans against previous abuses).
- Aberration: departure from what is usual/expected (schizophrenia is a mental aberration, professors must avoid aberration in lecture, his aberrant behavior worsened).
- * Reify: to make something abstract more concrete and real (fear is a tool, it helps us reify hegemonic structures, preventing us from building new frameworks for ourselves). ♥
- Winnow: to separate or distinguish valuable from worthless parts (to winnow falsehood from truth).
- Ostensibly: apparently/allegedly, but perhaps not actually (it is ostensibly a book that romanticizes violence).
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