Words

1. brevity
2. concise
3. laconic
4. pithy
5. quiescent
6. reticent
7. succint
8. taciturn
9. terse

Numnah

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Sporadic

According to www.dictionary.com American Heritage Dictionary, it is an adjective and pronounced as spo·rad·ic

Sporadic means the following:

1. Occurring at irregular intervals; having no pattern or order in time.
2. Appearing singly or at widely scattered localities as a plant or disease/
3. Isolated; unique.

 

assimilation

According to www.dictionary.com to WordNet:

noun

1. the state of being assimiliated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family.
2. the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another.
3. the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion.
4. a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound.
5. the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure.

Exogamy

Taken from www.dictionary.com, American Heritage Dictionary defines exogamy to be the following:

n.
1. The custom of marrying outside the tribe, family, clan or other social unit.
2. Biology – The fusion of two gametes that are not closely related.

To Neglect

According to American Heritage Dictionary at www.dictionary.com, the definition of neglect is the following:

verb

• To pay little or no attention to; fail to heed; disregard: neglected their warnings.
• To fail to care for or attend to properly: neglects her appearance.
• To fail to do or carry out, as through carelessness or oversight: neglected to return the call

noun

• The act or an instance of neglecting something.
• The state of being neglected.
• Habitual lack of care.

So as I see it I have achieved this since I started working at the current place I am. I have been neglecting on being super healthy and do my daily exercises which could explain why I am gaining again, I have also been neglecting to do anything progressive since I just sit in the office the whole day. I am exhausted.

Jaded

I haven’t had these for awhile… but here I am back again with a word I kept seeing in other people’s blogs – jaded.

Taken from www.dictionary.com American Heritage Dictionary,

jad·ed, jad·ing, jades

v. tr.
To wear out, as by overuse or overindulgence.

v. intr.
To become weary or spiritless.

n.
A broken-down or useless horse; a nag.
A woman regarded as disreputable or shrewish.

Genuflecting

Taken from http://www.dictionary.com from the American Heritage Dictionary, the following definition can be found for:

gen-u-flect

To bend the knee or to touch one knee to the floor or ground to worship or it can mean to be servilely (act inferior or behave like a servant) respectful or deferential.

Transient

Taken from http://www.dictionary.com/, the unabridged version 1.1 defines this as the following:

tran.sient
pronounced tran-shuh nt

-adjective
1. not lasting, enduring, or permanent
2. lasting only a short time or briefly; temporary
3. staying only a short time
-noun
4. a person that is a temporary guest

Evangelist

Taken from http://www.dictionary.com, from the Unabridged version 1.1, the following definition was given

e·van·ge·list
[i-van-juh-list] Pronunciation

–noun
1. A protestant misnister or layperson who serves as an itinerant or special preacher
2. A preacher of the gospel
3. A person marked by evangelical enthusiasm for or support of an cause.