Academic
Adj: marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects; noun: an educator who works at a college or university
Acknowledge
Verb: accept to be what is claimed; accept as legally binding and valid; express obligation, thanks, or gratitude for; report the receipt of; declare to be true or admit the existence or reality or truth of
Advocate
Noun: a person who pleads for a cause or propounds an idea; a lawyer who pleads cases in court; verb: speak, plead, or argue in favor of
Aesthetic
Adj: concerning or characterized by an appreciation of beauty or good taste; noun: (philosophy) a philosophical theory as to what is beautiful
Ambition
Noun: a strong drive for success; a cherished desire
Ambivalent
Adj: uncertain or unable to decide about what course to follow
Analysis
Noun: an investigation of the component parts of a whole and their relations in making up the whole
Anecdote
Noun: a short account of an incident (especially a biographical one)
Anticipate
Verb: be a forerunner of or occur earlier than; realizing beforehand; be excited or anxious about; act in advance of; deal with ahead of time; regard something as probable or likely; make a prediction about; tell in advance
Characterize
Verb: describe or portray the character or the qualities or peculiarities of
Comprehend
Verb: get the meaning of something; to become aware of through the senses
Conscious
Adj: showing realization or recognition of something; knowing and perceiving; having awareness of surroundings and sensations and thoughts; intentionally conceived
Contemporary
Adj: belonging to the present time; characteristic of the present; occurring in the same periods of time; noun: a person of nearly the same age as another
Controversial
Adj: marked by or capable of arousing disagreement
Critical
Adj: marked by tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws; characterized by careful evaluation and judgement; being in or verging on a state of emergency or crisis; at or of a point at which property or phenomenon suffers an abrupt change esp
Deceit
Noun: the act of deceiving; the quality of being fraudulent; a misleading falsehood
Depict
Verb: give a description of; show in, or as in, a picture
Distinct
Adj: recognizable; marked; easy to perceive; especially clearly outlined; not alike; different in nature or quality; clearly or sharply defined to the mind
Emphasize
Verb: to stress, single out as important; give extra weight to (a communication)
Endorse
Verb: be behind; approve of; give support or one's approval to
Erroneous
Adj: containing or characterized by error
Exaggerate
Verb: to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; do something to an excessive degree
Fundamental
Adj: being or involving basic facts or principles; far-reaching; serving as an essential component
Hypothesis
Noun: a tentative theory about the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena; a proposal intended to explain certain facts or observations
Ideal
Adj: conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence; noun: the idea of something that is perfect; something that one hopes to attain; model of excellence or perfection of a kind
Inclusive
Adj: including much or everything; and especially including stated limits
Innovate
Verb: bring something new to and environment
Intention
Noun: a desire that you intend to carry out; an anticipated outcome that guides your planned actions
Intimate
Adj: marked by close acquaintance, association, or familiarity; thoroughly acquainted through study or experience; having or fostering a warm or friendly and informal atmosphere; verb; give to understand; imply as a possibility
Irony
Noun: incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; language used to convey insults or scorn
Lament
Noun: a cry of sorrow and grief; a mournful poem; verb; express grief; regret strongly
Metaphor
Noun: a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
Nostalgia
Noun: longing for something past
Obligation
Noun: the state of being beholden to do or pay something
Obscure
Adj: not clearly understood or expressed; not famous or acclaimed; marked by difficulty of style or expression; remote and seperate physically or socially; difficult to find; verb: make obscure or unclear; make difficult to perceive by sight
Particular
Adj: providing specific details or circumstances; unique or specific to a person or thing or category; separate and distinct from others of the same group or category; first and most important; exacting, especially about details; noun: a fact about some p
Persona
Noun: a personal facade that one presents to the world; an actor's portrayal of someone in a play
Phenomenon
Noun: any state or process known through the senses rather than many intuition or reasoning; a remarkable development
Plausible
Adj: apparently reasonable and valid
Precede
Verb: be the predecessor of; come before; be earlier in time; go back further
Prominent
Adj: conspicuous in position or importance; having a quality that thrusts itself into attention
Provoke
Verb: provide the needed stimulus for; call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); annoy continually or chronically
Psyche
Noun: the seat of the faculty of reason; the immaterial part of a person; the actuating cause of an individual life
Revere
Verb: love unquestioningly and uncritically or to excess; venerate as an idol; regard with feelings of respect and reverence
Significant
Adj: fairly large; important in effect or meaning; too closely correlated to be attributed to chance and therefore indicating a systematic relation
Skeptic
Noun: someone who habitually doubts accepted belief
Sophisticated
Adj: intellectually appealing; having or appealing to those having worldly knowledge and refinement and savior-faire
Subtle
Adj: faint and difficult to analyze or detect
Sympathy
Noun: an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion; sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish)
Undermine
Verb: weaken, as an argument or claim; contradict