- autotelic: (of an activity or a creative work) having an end or purpose in itself.
- axiom: a statement or proposition that is regarded as being established, accepted, or self-evidently true.
- beleaguered: beset with difficulties.
- example: the board is supporting the beleaguered director amid calls for his resignation.
- blunder: a stupid or careless mistake.
- brevity: concise and exact use of words in writing or speech.
- cacophony: a harsh, discordant mixture of sounds.
- example: a cacophony of deafening alarm bells.
- coalesce: come together and form one mass or whole.
- example: the puddles had coalesced into shallow streams.
- contingent: subject to chance.
- decrement: a reduction or diminution.
- delineate: describe or portray (something) precisely.
- demarcate: set the boundaries or limits of.
- example: plots of land demarcated by barbed wire.
- digress: leave the main subject temporarily in speech or writing.
- example: i have digressed a little from my original plan.
- divulge: make known (private or sensitive information).
- emulate: match or surpass (a person or achievement) typically by imitation.
- example: lesser men trying to emulate his greatness.
- encapsulate: enclose (something) in or as if a capsule.
- exhume: dig out (something buried, especially a corpse) from the ground.
- expiate: atone for (guilt or sin).
- imperceptible: impossible to perceive.
- increment: an increase or addition, especially one of a series on a fixed scale.
- insular: ignorant of or uninterested in cultures, ideas, or peoples outside one's own experience.
- intractable: hard to control or deal with.
- nomenclature: the devising or choosing of names for things, especially in a science or other discipline.
- pallor: an unhealthy pale appearance.
- penance: voluntary self-punishment inflicted as an outward expression of repentance for having done wrong.
- example: he had done public penance for those hasty words.
- rhetoric: the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.
- salable: fit or able to be sold.
- stagnant: showing no activity, dull and sluggish.
- sublime: of such excellence, grandeur, or beauty as to inspire great admiration or awe.
- thematic: having or relating to subjects or a particular subject.
- visceral: relating to deep inward feelings rather than the intellect.
- example: the voters' visceral fear of change.
- voracious: having a very eager approach to an activity.
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