- Acerbic: (especially of a comment or style of speaking) sharp and forthright
- Adroit: clever or skillful in using the hands or mind.
- Commensurate: corresponding in size or degree; in proportion
- Diegesis: a narrative or plot, typically in a movie
- Elegiac: (esp. of a work of art) having a mournful quality
- Engender: cause or give rise to
- Exhort: to urge, advise, or caution earnestly; admonish urgently.
- Fastidious: very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail.
- Fête: honor or entertain (someone) lavishly (ex:. she was fêted by the media)
- Haptic: relating to the sense of touch, in particular relating to the perception and manipulation of objects using the senses of touch
- Harangue: lecture (someone) at length in an aggressive and critical manner
- Mephitic: foul-smelling; noxious
- Milieu: a person's social environment (ex.: he grew up in a military milieu)
- Mise-en-scène: the arrangement of scenery and stage properties in a play.
- Ontology: the philosophical study of being (in particular becoming, existence, reality, as well as the basic categories of being and their relations)
- Panegyric: a public speech or published text in praise of someone or something
- Pernicious: having a harmful effect, esp. in a gradual or subtle way
- Scotomization: theory in psychoanalysis which refers to the mind's ability to erase a traumatic or overwhelming experience, or the inclination to turn a blind eye to unacceptable impulses or memories which might threaten the ego. mental defense device which may be a type of resistance.
- Syncretism: combining of different beliefs, while blending practices of various schools of thought
- Vicissitude: a change of circumstances or fortune, typically one that is unwelcome or unpleasant
- Weltschmerz: a feeling of melancholy and world-weariness/a deep sadness about the inadequacy or imperfection of the world
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