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7 Habits Flashcards

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To fail to take responsibility for something, or to give up a position as King.

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Abdicate

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Similar to or in agreement with something, so that two things can both exist or be combined without problem.

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Congruent

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Edward VIII the British throne in 1936.

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Abdicated

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To seek some abstract meaning to our lives out in our Circle of Concern is to our proactive responsibility, to place our own first creation in the hands of our circumstances & other people.

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Abdicate

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Our goals are ; there is no conflict.

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Congruent

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We are response-able to use our imagination & creativity to write new ones that are more effective, more with our deepest values & with the correct principles that give our values meaning.

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Congruent

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In developing our own self-awareness many of us discover ineffective scripts, deeply embedded habits that are totally unworthy of us, totally with the things we really value in life.

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Incongruent

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Having the power to produce a desired effect.

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Efficacious

//an efficacious remedy.

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stresses the actual production of or the power to produce an effect.

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Effective

An effective rebuttal

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suggests the accomplishment of a desired result especially as viewed after the fact.

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Effectual

the measures to stop the pilfering provedeffectual

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suggests an acting or a potential for action or use in such a way as to avoid loss or waste of energy in effecting, producing, or functioning.

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Efficient

anefficientsmall car

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suggests possession of a special quality or virtue that gives effective power.

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Efficacious

a detergent that isefficaciousin removing grease

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implies an acting or potential for acting that avoids loss or waste of energy

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Efficient

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suggests the accomplishment of a desired result, especially as viewed after the fact

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Effectual

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stresses the power to produce or the actual production of a particular effect

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Effective

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suggests possession of a special quality or virtue that makes it possible to achieve a result

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Efficacious

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typically describes an irritating person who is eager to correct small errors others make, or who wants everyone to know just how much of an expert they are, especially in some narrow or boring subject matter.

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Pedantic

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generally means “designed to teach,” but it isoften used in a negative way to describe boring or annoying lessons, or the people who teach them.

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Didactic

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A person may do lots of annoying things, such as point out minor errors, correct people who make small mistakes, and brag about their own knowledge and expertise.

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Pedantic

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In a brief, concise, or to the point manner.

Using few words, sometimes in a way that seems rude or unfriendly.

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Tersely

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Someone or something that represents a quality or an idea exactly.

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Embodiment

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He was the of the English gentleman.

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Embodiment

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She was portrayed in the papers as the

of evil.

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Embodiment

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Something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action.

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Provocation

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In law, is when a person is considered to have committed a criminal act partly because of a preceding set of events that might cause a reasonable person to lose self control.

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Provocation

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An attitude of scornful or jaded negativity, especially a general distrust of the integrity or professed motives of others.

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Cynicism

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A scornfully or jadedly negative comment or act.

“She arrived at a philosophy of her own, all made up of her private notations and .”

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Cynicisms

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a Greek philosophy of the 4th century B.C. advocating the doctrines that virtue is the only good, that the essence of virtue is self-control and individual freedom, and that surrender to any external influence is beneath the dignity of man.

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Cynic n.

Cynical adj.

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To accept military defeat.

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Capitulate

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To accept something or agree to do something unwillingly

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Capitulate

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The sports minister today to calls for his resignation.

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Capitulated

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Their forces five hours after the bombardment of the city began

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Capitulated

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To accept defeat, or give up & give in.

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Capitulate v.

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I & let my daughter go with her friends.

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Capitulated

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the quality of being cruel and showing no sympathy for others:

Having no pity; merciless.

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Pitilessness

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acting to help someone else at some cost to oneself.

It can include a vast range of behaviors, from sacrificing one’s life to save others, to giving money to charity or volunteering at a soup kitchen, to simply waiting a few seconds to hold the door open for a stranger.

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Altruistic

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The quality of being kind & helpful.

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Benevolence

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His sunny, calm tone suggested a man of deep .

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Benevolence

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  1. ahead in development, such as the mental development of a child.
  2. (Botany) botany (of plants, fruit, etc) flowering or ripening early.
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Precocious adj.

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  1. Tochangethestyle,loudness, etc. of something such asyourvoiceinordertoachieveaneffector
    expressanemotion
  2. Tochangesomething, such as anactionor aprocess, to make it moresuitableforitssituation
  3. Tovarythestrength,quality, oramountof something
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Modulate

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Is the process of making careful distinctions in our thinking about truth.

In other words, the ability to think with is synonymous with an ability to think biblically.

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Discernment

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  1. The act or process of exhibiting keen insight and good judgment.
  2. Keenness of insight and judgment.
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Discernment

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A person who habitually uses platitudes—or clichés—is (among other things) a

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Platitudinarian

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the quality or state of being dull or insipid

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Platitude

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a trite or obvious remark banality, cliche, commonplace, bromide comment, remark, input - a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information; “from time to time she contributed a personal comment on his account” truism - an obvious truth

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Platitude

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a flat, dull, or trite remark, especially one uttered as if it were fresh or profound. the quality or state of being flat, dull, or trite

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Platitude

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a remark or statement that may be true but is boring and has no meaning because it has been said so many times before

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Platitude

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French slang for undereducated and annoying white dude: redneck

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Beauf

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  1. a commemorative inscription on a tombstone or monument.
  2. a speech or written passage composed in commemoration of a dead person.
  3. a final judgment on a person or thing.
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Epitaph

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  1. Thequalityof beingkindandhelpful
  2. Theactof givingmoneyorhelptopeopleor
    organizationsthat need it
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Benevolence

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  1. The quality of being kind and gentle; Kindly, charitable interest in others
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Benignancy

noun

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Intense ill will or hatred; great malice.

An act or a feeling of great malice.

The condition or quality of being highly dangerous or injurious; deadliness.

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Malignity

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The character of being malevolent or ill-disposed; ill-will; personal hatred; enmity of heart; inclination to injure others.

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Malevolence

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Unfriendlyand notlikingsomething

Notagreeingwith something

Difficultor notsuitableforlivingorgrowing

Connectedwith theenemyin awar

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Hostile

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  1. wishing to fight or start a war
  2. inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious.

Warlike or hostile in manner or temperament. synonym: belligerent.

Inclined to war or contention; warlike; pugnacious.

Warlikein nature;aggressive;hostile.

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Bellicose

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