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  1. Automate
    • 1. (verb) To replace or enhance human labor with machines.
    • Ex. 1. Many offices will need to automate.
    • Ex. 2. We saved time and money by automating the process.

    2. To apply the principles of automation to (a mechanical process, industry, office, etc.).

    • 3. To displace or make obsolete by automation (often followed by out):
    • Ex. The unskilled jobs are going to be automated out.
  2. Love
    1. (noun) A strong affection. A profound and caring affection towards someone. A feeling of intense attraction towards someone.

    • 2. A feeling of care and mercy towards people or living beings in general.
    • 3. A deep or abiding liking for something.
    • 4. A sexual desire; sexual activity.
  3. Intrinsic
    • 1. (adj) Belonging to a thing by its very nature.
    • 2. Innate, inherent, inseparable from the thing itself, essential.
    • Ex. The intrinsic value of gold.
    • 3. (of a body part, relating to anatomy) Situated, produced, secreted in, or coming from inside an organ, tissue, muscle or member.

    • 1. (noun) (computing, programming) A built-in function that is implemented directly by the compiler, without any intermediate call to a library.
    • 2. (video games) An ability possessed by a character and not requiring any external equipment.
    • Ex. You can acquire the fire-resistance intrinsic by eating dragon meat.
  4. Syntax
    • 1. (noun) A set of rules that govern how words are combined to form phrases and sentences.
    • 2. (computing) The formal rules of formulating the statements of a computer language.
    • 3. (linguistics) The study of the structure of phrases, sentences and language.
  5. Linguistics
    1. (noun) The scientific study of language.
  6. Aneurysm
    1. (noun) An abnormal blood filled swelling of an artery or vein, resulting from a localized weakness in the wall of the vessel.
  7. Inflect
    1. (verb) To cause to curve inwards.

    2. To change the tone or pitch of the voice when speaking or singing.

    3. To vary the form of a word to express tense, gender, number, mood, etc.
  8. Inherent
    • 1. (adj) Existing in someone or something as a permanent and inseparable element, quality, or attribute.
    • Ex. An inherent distrust of strangers.

    2. Naturally as part or consequence of something.
  9. Coherent
    • 1. (adj) Logically connected; consistent:
    • Ex. A coherent argument.

    • 2. Having a natural or due agreement of parts; harmonious:
    • Ex. A coherent design.

    • 3. Cohering; sticking together:
    • Ex. A coherent mass of sticky candles.
  10. Adherent
    1. (noun) A person who follows or upholds a leader, cause, etc,; supporter; follower.

    • 1. (adj) Sticking; clinging; adhering:
    • Ex. An adherent substance.

    • 2. Bound by contract or other formal agreement:
    • Ex. The nations adherent to the Geneva Convention.
  11. Notoriety
    1. (noun) The condition of being infamous or notorious.
  12. Liberate
    • 1. (verb) To set free, to make or allow to be free.
    • Ex. They must liberate themselves from slavery.
    • Ex. You must free your mind and liberate yourself from prejudice.

    • 2. (chemistry) To release from chemical bonds or solutions.
    • Ex. Since the procedure liberates a large amount of chlorine gas, a powerful ventilation system is recommended.

    • 3. To acquire from another by theft or force: to steal, to rob.
    • Ex. We didn't need ID's. We just liberated these beers from the back of the shop.
  13. Transitive
    1. (adj) Making a transit or passage.

    2. Affected by transference of signification.

    3. Taking an object or objects.
  14. Euphemism
    • 1. (noun) The use of a word or phrase to replace another with one that is considered less offensive, blunt or vulgar than the word or phrase which it replaces.
    • 2. A word or phrase that is used to replace another in this way.
  15. Stereotype
    • 1. (noun) A conventional, formulaic, and often oversimplified or exaggerated conception, opinion, or image of (a person).
    • 2. A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.
    • 3. A metal printing plate cast from a matrix molded from a raised printing surface.

    • 1. (verb) To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.
    • 2. To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.
    • 3. To make firm or permanent; to fix.
  16. Bias
    • 1. (noun) Inclination towards something; predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference, predilection.
    • 2. The diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.
  17. Predisposition
    1. (noun) The state of being predisposed or susceptible to something, especially to a disease or other health problem.
  18. Neurotoxin
    1. (noun) (neuroscience, toxicology) A toxin that specifically acts upon neurons, their synapses, or the nervous system in its entirety.
  19. Toxin
    1. (noun) A toxic or poisonous substance produced by the biological processes of biological organisms.
  20. Disposition
    • 1. (noun) The arrangement or placement of certain things.
    • Ex. The scouts reported on the disposition of the enemy troops.
    • 2. Tendency or inclination under given circumstances.
    • Ex. I have little disposition now to do as you say.
    • Ex. Salt has a disposition to dissolve in water.
    • 3. Temperamental makeup or habitual mood.
    • Ex. She has a sunny disposition.
    • 4. Control over something.
    • Ex. You will have full disposition of these funds.
    • 5. (law) Transfer or relinquishment to the care or possession of another.
    • Ex. The court ordered the disposition of all assets.
    • 6. (law) Final decision or settlement.
    • Ex. The disposition of the case will be announced tomorrow.
    • 7. (medicine) The destination of a patient after medical treatment such as surgery.
    • Ex. The patient was given a disposition for outpatient care.
  21. Ostracize
    • 1. (verb) To exclude (a person) from society or from a community, by not communicating with (them) or by refusing to acknowledge (their) presence; to refuse to talk to or associate with; to shun.
    • 2. To ban a person from the city of Athens for ten years.
  22. Invert
    • 1. (verb) To turn (something) upside down or inside out; to place in a contrary order or direction.
    • Ex. To invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc.
    • 2. (music) To move (the root note of a chord) up or down an octave, resulting in a change in pitch.
    • 3. To divert; to convert to a wrong use.

    1. (noun) A homosexual person.

    2. (civil engineering) The lowest point inside a pipe at a certain point; an elevation of a pipe at a certain point along the pipe.

    3. (biology) Invertebrate
  23. Object
    • 1. A thing that has physical existence.
    • 2. Objective; the goal, end or purpose of something.
    • 3. A person or thing toward which an emotion is directed.
    • Ex. Mary Jane had been the object of Peter's affection for years.
    • Ex. The convertible, once the object of his desire, was now the object of his hatred.
    • Ex. Where's your object of ridicule now?
  24. Instantiation
    1. (noun) The production of an instance, example, or specific application of a general classification, principle, theory, etc.
  25. Sustain
    1. (noun) (music) A mechanism which can be used to hold a note, as the right pedal on a piano.

    • 1. (verb) To maintain, or keep in existence.
    • Ex. The professor had trouble sustaining students' interest until the end of her lectures.
    • 2. To provide for or nourish.
    • Ex. provisions to sustain an army
    • 3. To encourage (something).

    • 4. To experience or suffer (an injury, etc.).
    • Ex. The building sustained major damage in the earthquake.
    • 5. To confirm, prove, or corroborate; to uphold.
    • Ex. to sustain a charge, an accusation, or a proposition
    • 6. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support.
    • Ex. A foundation sustains the superstructure; an animal sustains a load; a rope sustains weight.
    • 7. To aid, comfort, or relieve; to vindicate.
  26. Paradox
    • 1. (noun) An apparently self-contradictory statement, which can only be true if it is false, and vice versa.
    • Ex. "This sentence is false" is a paradox.
    • 2. A counter-intuitive conclusion or outcome.
    • Ex. It is an interesting paradox that drinking a lot of water can often make you feel thirsty.
    • 3. A claim that two apparently contradictory ideas are true.
    • Ex. Not having a fashion is a fashion; that's a paradox.
    • 4. A person or thing having contradictory properties.
    • Ex. He is a paradox; you would not expect him in that political party.
    • 5. An unanswerable question or difficult puzzle, particularly one which leads to a deeper truth.
    • 6. A statement which is difficult to believe, or which goes against general belief.
  27. Evaluation
    1. (noun) An assessment, such as an annual personnel performance review used as the basis for a salary increase or bonus, or a summary of a particular situation.

    2. (mathematics) A completion of a mathematical operation; a valuation.

    3. (computing, programming) Determination of the value of a variable or expression.
  28. Facsimile
    • 1. (noun) An exact copy, especially of written or printed material.
    • 2. A copy or reproduction.
    • 3. A fax, a machine for making and sending copies of printed material and images via radio or telephone network.
    • 4. The image sent by the machine itself.

    • 1. (verb) Make a copy of.
    • Ex. "the ride was facsimiled for Disney World"
    • 2. To send via a facsimile machine; to fax.
  29. Pandora
    1. (noun) Any fish of the genus Pagellus.
  30. Genus
    • 1. (noun) (taxonomy) A rank in the classification of organisms, below family and above species; a taxon at that rank.
    • Ex. All magnolias belong to the genus Magnolia.
    • 2. A group with common attributes.
  31. Pandora's box
    1. (noun) (Greek Mythology) A box given to Pandora by Zeus, whose instructions that it must not be opened were ignored with disastrous consequences.

    2. A source of unforeseen trouble.
  32. Assessment
    • 1. (noun) The act of assessing or an amount (of tax, levy or duty, etc.)
    • 2. An appraisal or evaluation.
  33. Permeate
    • 1. (verb) To pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; applied especially to fluids which pass through substances of loose texture.
    • Ex. water permeates sand

    2. To enter and spread through; to pervade.
  34. Semipermeable
    1. (adj) Permeable to some things and not to others, as a cell membrane which allows some molecules through but blocks other substances.
  35. Salinate
    • 1. (verb) To add salt to.
    • Ex. The chemist salinated her solution.
  36. Saline
    1. (adj) Containing salt; salty.

    • 2. Resembling salt
    • Ex. a saline taste.

    1. (noun) Water containing dissolved salt.

    2. A salt spring; a place where salt water is collected in the earth.
  37. Desalinate
    1. (verb) To remove the salt from something, especially from seawater for use in a domestic water supply.
  38. Osmosis
    1. (noun) The net movement of solvent molecules, usually water, from a region of lower solute concentration to a region of higher solute concentration through a partially permeable membrane.

    • 2. Picking up knowledge accidentally, without actually seeking that particular knowledge.
    • Ex. I was reading about chickens, and I guess I learned about hawks through osmosis.
  39. Permission
    1. (noun) Authorization, consent (especially formal consent from someone in authority)

    2. The act permitting.
  40. Pervasion
    1. (noun) The act of pervading; permeation, suffusion.
  41. Pervasive
    • 1. (adj) Manifested throughout; pervading, permeating, penetrating or affecting everything.
    • Ex. The medication had a pervasive effect on the patient's health.
  42. Entropy
    • 1. (noun) Thermodynamic entropy. A measure of the amount of energy in a physical system that cannot be used to do work.
    • Ex. The thermodynamic free energy is the amount of work that a thermodynamic system can perform; it is the internal energy of a system minus the amount of energy that cannot be used to perform work. That unusable energy is given by the entropy of a system multiplied by the temperature of the system.[1] (Note that, for both Gibbs and Helmholtz free energies, temperature is assumed to be fixed, so entropy is effectively directly proportional to useless energy.)

    2. A measure of the disorder present in a system.

    3. The capacity factor for thermal energy that is hidden with respect to temperature.

    4. The tendency of a system that is left to itself to descend into chaos.
  43. Peculiar
    • 1. (adj) Out of the ordinary; odd; curious; unusual.
    • Ex. The sky had a peculiar appearance before the storm.
    • Ex. It would be rather peculiar to see a kangaroo hopping down a city street.

    • 2. Common or unusual for a certain place or circumstance; specific or particular.
    • Ex. Kangaroos are peculiar to Australia.

    3. One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not shared or possessed by others.

    4. Particular; individual, special; appropriate.

    1. (noun) That which is peculiar; a sole or exclusive property; a prerogative; a characteristic.

    2. An ecclesiastical district, parish, chapel, or church outside the jurisdiction of the bishop of the diocese in which it is situated.
  44. Cognitive Dissonance
    1. (noun) A conflict or anxiety resulting from inconsistencies between one's actions or other beliefs.

    2. Anxiety that results from simultaneously holding contradictory or otherwise incompatible attitudes, beliefs, or the like, as when one likes a person but disapproves strongly of one of his or her habits.

    3. An uncomfortable mental state resulting from conflicting cognitions; usually resolved by changing some of the cognitions.
  45. Prerogative
    • 1. (noun) An exclusive right, privilege, etc., exercised by virtue of rank, office, or the like.
    • Ex. the prerogatives of a senator.

    • 2. A right, privilege, etc., limited to a specific person or to persons of a particular category.
    • Ex. It was the teacher's prerogative to stop the discussion.

    • 3. A power, immunity, or the like restricted to a sovereign government or its representative.
    • Ex. The royal prerogative exempts the king from taxation.

    4. Obsolete. precedence

    1. (adjective) Having or exercising a prerogative.

    2. Pertaining to, characteristic of, or existing by virtue of a prerogative.
  46. Cognition
    1. (noun) The act or process of knowing; perception.

    2. The product of such a process; something thus known, perceived, etc.

    3. Knowledge.
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