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ego.noun,.plural.egos
the word 'ego' comes from the Greek word 'i-mee',
number 1510 in Strong's
Exhaustive Concordance and means 'I am', 'the self', the
ego, the I, the me, me, me, a focused attention upon the things of
the self; the ego is about a reward/deprivation.syndrome;
someone's
ego is their sense
of worth
toward greatness, self-aggrandizment
as compared to one feeling worthy because he or she is able to be of help
and/or good service to another, for example, if someone has a large ego,
they think they are very important and valuable (ancient king
Sennacherib had a massive ego);
the word ego basically means, the individual
as
aware of himself; someone's
ego is their sense of worth, for example, if someone is mostly
egocentric,
they are mostly thinking from a selfish viewpoint about what they encounter
in life, that it is only important and valuable for themselves (he had
a massive ego, seldom
if ever would he admit to wrong because of hubris.permeating
his character);
the ego is typified
by trying to figure out every angle
so it can adjust
in such a way as to always have or gain advantage
and this is often the motivator
to follow one's curiosity; the
ego is us as individuals and is necessary in the early stages for the
human journey we are on
egoism.noun,.plural.egoisms
self-centered;
considering oneself or one's own interests to be above all other concerns
egocentric.adjective
confined
in attitude
or interest to one's own needs or affairs; caring only about oneself; selfish;
conceited;
holding the view that the ego,
the self, is the center, object
and norm
of all experience
egocentrically.adverb
egocentric, egocentricity,
egocentrism.nouns
egoist.noun,.plural.egoists
a self-centered or selfish person; one devoted
to one's own interests and advancement; an egocentric
person; an egotist; an adherent
of egoism
egoistic or
egoistical.adjectives
egoistically.adverb
conceited;
self-centered; selfish
egomania.noun,.plural.egomania
egomaniac.noun,.plural.egomaniac
obsessive
and excessive.preoccupation
with the self; narcissistic
egomaniacally.adverb
egomaniacal-adjective
egotist.noun,.plural.egotists
an individual characterized by egotism; a conceited,
boastful individual; a selfish, self-centered person (a person of low taste,
more interested in himself than others)
egotistic.adjective
characterized by egotism
egotistical.adjective
egotistically.adverb
egotism.noun,.plural.egotisms
excessive reference
to oneself; the tendency
to speak or write excessively and boastfully of things having to do with
oneself; an inflated sense of one's own importance; conceit
egregious.adjective-(pronounced
'agree jus')
outstandingly, conspicuously
bad or offensive; shocking
egregiously.adverb
egregiousness.noun,.plural.egregiousnesses
synonyms.flagrant,
glaring, gross, rank
elaborate,
elaborative.adjectives.(pronounced
'e lab or it')
developed in great detail; intricate;
you use elaborate to describe something that is very complex
because it has a lot of different parts; planned or executed with painstaking
attention to numerous
parts or details; produced by great effort; worked out in careful detail
(used an individual's Cestui Que Vie trust kept hidden from them and the
rest
of We the People,
to pay financial penalties
levied
by the criminal justice/attorney system who set up myriad
rules {how many?} for violating
them); built a large elaborate residence
with money scammed from We
the People through imposition
of unapproved rules by We the People
elaborate.(pronounced
'e lab or ate'), elaborated,
elaborating,
elaborates.transitive
verbs
to express at greater length or in greater detail
(asked me to elaborate on my proposal)
elaborately.adverb
elaborateness.noun,.plural.elaboratenesses
elaboration.noun,.plural.elaborations
elaborator.noun,.plural.elaborators
elate,
elated,
elating,
elates.transitive
verbs
to make proud or joyful (her success elated the
family)
elate.adjective
elation.noun,.plural.elationsd
electromagnetic.adjective
of,
relating.to.or.produced
by electromagnetism
electromagnetically.adverb
electromagnetic induction
a current
flows in a wire when the wire is moved through a magnetic
field
electromagnetic radiation
Radiation-emitted
in the form of an electromagnetic
wave. Electromagnetic radiation includes
all
the forms of light including visible light.
electromagnetic wave.noun,.plural.electromagnetic
waves
one of the waves that are propagated
by simultaneous.periodic
variations of electric and magnetic
field.intensity
and that include radio waves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X rays
and gamma rays; a wave that consists
of an electric field in conjunction
with an electromagnetic field-oscillating
at the same frequency; an electromagnetic wave travels at the speed
of light. Examples of electromagnetic waves are
light,
radio, etc.
electromagnetic spectrum
the entire range of light radiation
extending in frequency from approximately 1023
hertz (frequency) to 0 hertz or,
in corresponding wavelengths, from 10–13 centimeter to
infinity and including, in order of decreasing frequency,
cosmic
ray-photons,
gamma
rays, x-rays, ultraviolet
radiation, visible light, infrared radiation, microwaves and radio waves
electromagnetism.noun
the area of physics
that deals with electrical and magnetic-fields;
electromagnetism is of the four fundamental
forces.(actually only 2, electromagnetism
and gravity).necessary for all existence throughout
the Universe; the others being gravity,
the
strong interaction (or, the strong force) and the
weak interaction (or, the weak force)
Electromagnetism is magnetism
developed by a current of
electricity; a fundamental
physical force that is responsible for interactions between charged particles
which occur because of their charge and for the emission
and absorption of photons,
which, of the four forces is about 100 times weaker than the strong force
(or, interaction) and that extends over infinite
distances but is dominant over
atomic
and molecular distances, called
also electromagnetic
force; compare gravity, strong force, weak force.
Electromagnetism
is a branch of physical science that
deals with the physical relations between electricity and magnetism.
electron microscope
uses the electron
instead of light as optical microscopes do; used because of the high magnification
they provide; microscopy on
the Net
electron transport
a sequence
of biochemical reduction oxidation
reactions that affect the transfer of electrons
through a series of carriers
The successive passage of electrons from one cytochrome
(proteins containing iron) or
flavoprotein (a group of enzymes
containing flavin bound to protein and acting as dehydrogenation catalysts
in biological reactions) to another by a series of oxidation reduction
reactions during the aerobic production of ATP,
with the electrons originating from an oxidizable substrate
and ultimately being passed to molecular
oxygen. The oxidation reduction reactions generate the energy required
for the production of ATP.
England/United Kingdom.proper
nouns
a division of the United
Kingdom, the southern part of the island; originally settled by Celtic
peoples, it was subsequently
conquered by Romans, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Danes and Normans; acts of
union joined England with Wales in 1536, with Scotland in 1707 to create
the political entity known as Great
Britain and in 1801, with Ireland to form
the United Kingdom. London is the capital and the largest city of
both England and the United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland
commonly called Great
Britain or Britain, England, all terms referring to the British people
and people of the United Kingdom (comprising the British, Scottish, Irish,
Welsh people) Abbr. U.K., UK; a country comprising England, Scotland, Wales
and Northern Ireland; beginning with the kingdom of England, it was created
by three acts of union (with Wales (1536), Scotland (1707) and Northern
Ireland (1800)); at the height of its power in the 19th century it ruled
an empire that spanned the globe; London is the capital and the largest
city of the U.K.
entreaty.noun,.plural.entreaties.(see
intreat)
an earnest
request or petition; a plea
etiquette.noun,.plural.etiquettes
the practices
and forms customary to various cultures
as prescribed by social convention
or by consensus
expunge, expunged,
expunging,
expunges.transitive
verbs
to erase or strike out (I have expunged what I
felt were the unnecessary items to reduce the weight of the shipment);
to eliminate completely; annihilate
expunger.noun,.plural.expungers
etch, etched,
etching,
etches.transitive
verbs
an etching is a picture printed from a metal plate
that has had a design cut into it with acid;
to cut into the surface of glass, for example, by the action of acid; to
make or create by this method (etch
a design on glass); to impress,
delineate
or imprint
clearly (a landscape that is forever etched in my memory; trees that were
etched against the winter sky)
intransitive
verb use.to engage
in etching
etching.noun,.plural.etchings
etcher.noun,.plural.etchers
enshroud, enshrouded,
enshrouding,
enshrouds.transitive
verbs
to cover with or as if with a shroud (louds enshrouded
the summit)
estimate, estimated,
estimating,
estimates.transitive
verbs
to calculate approximately (the amount, extent,
magnitude,
position or value
of something); to form an opinion
about; evaluate
estimate.noun,.plural.estimates
the act of evaluating
or appraising;
tentative.evaluation
or rough calculation, as of worth, quantity or size; a statement
of the approximate
cost of work to be done, such as a building project or car repairs; a judgment
based on one's impressions;
an opinion
estimator.noun,.plural.estimators
estimation.noun,.plural.estimations
the act or an instance of estimating;
the amount, extent, position, size or value reached in an estimate; an
opinion or a judgment; favorable regard.(in
my estimation he is a good fellow); esteem
entire.adjective
having no part excluded or left out; whole (I
read the entire book); complete (gave us his entire attention); all in
one piece; intact; of one piece; continuous; unmixed or unalloyed;
pure or homogenous
entire.noun,.plural.entires
the whole; the entirety
entireness.noun.(many
words ending in 'ess'
are
usually without pluralization - adding an 'es'
making '...esses'
can make the word be clumsy)
entirety.noun,.plural.entireties
the state
of being entire or complete; wholeness (to appreciate the sonata,
one must hear it in its entirety)
entirely.adverb
wholly; completely (entirely satisfied with the
meal); solely or exclusively (he was entirely correct)
effect.noun,.plural.effects
a result; something brought about by a cause or
an agent; producing an outcome or
achieve a result; influence (his attitude had an immediate effect to cheer
her up); the effect of one thing on another is the change that the first
thing causes in the second thing (parents concerned about the effect of
music on their adolescent's behavior); an effect is an impression that
someone creates deliberately,
for example in a place or in a piece of writing (the whole effect of the
new lighting is warm, light and airy, giving a nice freshness to the room);
if you say that someone is doing something for effect, you mean that they
are doing it in order to impress
people and to draw attention to themselves; a person's effects are the
things that they have with them at a particular time or the things that
they own); if you effect something that you are trying to achieve, you
succeed in causing it to happen (prospects for effecting
real political change seemed to have taken a major step forward); consequence;
outcome;
placebo effect, ripple effect, side-effect, sound effect, special effect,
greenhouse effect; you add 'in effect' to a statement or opinion that is
not precisely accurate, but which you feel is a reasonable description
or summary of a particular situation (that deal would create, in effect,
the world's biggest airline)
effect, effected,
effecting,
effects.transitive
verbs
to bring into existence; to produce as a result;
to bring about; compare 'affect'
Usage note: the word
'effect' means 'to bring about or execute' (additional sales effected more
income for the employees that owned the company); consider the sentence
'additional sales will effect income', implies
that increased sales will cause new additional income', whereas,
the sentence 'additional sales will affect income' could imply that
the measures may reduce savings and income. See more
Usage notes.
in effect.idiom
in essence;
to all purposes (testimony that in effect contradicted
her earlier statement; by not wearing proper winter clothes one is in effect,
making it colder for himself); virtually
effectible.adjective
effecter.noun,.plural.effecters
compare affect
effective.adjective
having an intended
or expected effect; producing a strong impression
or response; striking
(gave an effective performance as Othello); operative; in effect (the law
is effective immediately); existing in fact; actual
(a decline in the effective demand);
of use for its intended purpose
(the tool was effective for extraction
of the worn part)
effective,
effectiveness.or.effectivity.noun,.plural.effectives,
effectivenesses.or.effectivities
effectively.adverb
in an effective way; in an effective manner; in
a way that produces the result that was intended (children have to learn
to communicate effectively); for all practical purposes; in effect (though
it was still raining a bit the flood was effectively over)
effectual.adjective
producing or sufficient
to produce a desired effect; fully adequate;
effective
effectuality.noun,.plural.effectualities
effectualness.noun,.plural.effectualnesses
effectually.adverb
effectuate, effectuates,
effectuated, effectuating.intransitive
verbs
to bring about; effect
effectuation.noun,.plural.effectuations
elongate, elongated,
elongating,
elongates.transitive
and intransitive verbs
to make or grow longer (clams
can elongate their shells)
elongated.adjective
made longer; extended; having more length than
width; slender
Epictetus 55?-135?."Greek
philosopher,
whose philosophy of Stoicism.emphasized
freedom, morality and humanity.
Epictetus was probably born at Hierapolis, Phrygia, ancient Phrygia now
being part of Turkey. Although a slave, as a youth he studied the philosophy
of Stoicism. His master subsequently
granted him his freedom and until AD90, Epictetus taught philosophy at
Rome. In that year the Roman emperor Domitian, fearful of the dangers engendered
by the teachings of the Stoics, exiled
Epictetus and several other philosophers. Epictetus settled at Nicopolis,
in southern Epirus, where he died. His doctrines
have been preserved in two works
compiled
by his pupil, the Greek historian and philosopher Arrian: the Encheiridion
(Handbook), the whole of which survives today and Discourses of Epictetus,
of which four of eight books survive. According
to these works, Epictetus was concerned chiefly with the problem of morality,
that is, of defining good. He
asserted
that humans are basically.limited.(*).and
irrational
beings, but that the universe, ruled by God
through pure reason, is perfect. Because human beings can neither
know nor control their destiny,
they must cease.striving
for the attainment of worldly
ends and instead calmly.accept
the fact of their own powerlessness
before fate. As a corollary
of this doctrine, Epictetus held
that human beings must, because of their own weaknesses, be tolerant
of the faults of others."....Microsoft®
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