- acquiesce
- accept something reluctantly but without protest
- antagonize
- cause (someone) to become hostile
- appraisal
- an act of assessing something or someone
- ardent
- enthusiastic or passionate
- assertion
- a confident and forceful statement of fact or belief
- axiom
- a statement or proposition that is regarded as being established, accepted, or self-evidently true
- bottleneck
- a point of congestion or blockage that causes delay in a process or system
- cumbersome
- slow or complicated and therefore inefficient
- dappled
- marked with spots or rounded patches
- derision
- contemptuous ridicule or mockery
- detrimental
- tending to cause harm
- eloquent
- fluent or persuasive in speaking or writing, clearly expressing or indicating something
- erroneous
- wrong, incorrect
- exacerbate
- to make something bad even worse
- exempt
- free from an obligation or liability imposed on others
- homeostasis
- the tendency toward a relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements, esp. as maintained by physiological processes.
- inception
- the establishment or starting point of an institution or activity
- kaizen
- a Japanese business philosophy of continuous improvement of working practices, personal efficiency, etc.
- laudable
- deserving praise and commendation
- magnanimous
- very generous or forgiving, esp. toward a rival or someone less powerful than oneself
- mitigate
- make less severe, serious, or painful
- moratorium
- a temporary prohibition of an activity
- palpable
- able to be touched or felt, esp. a feeling or atmosphere
- parity
- the state or condition of being equal, esp. regarding status or pay
- precipitous
- a sudden and dramatic change to a worse situation or condition
- dangerous and steep
- done suddenly and without careful consideration
- prevailing
- existing at a particular time, current
- to prove more powerful than opposing forces, be victorious
- reciprocity
- the practice of exchanging things with others for mutual benefit, esp. privileges granted by one country or organization to another.
- renege
- go back on a promise, undertaking, or contract
- solicitude
- care or concern for someone or something
- solipsism
- the view or theory that the self is all that can be known to exist
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