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Bowden Word of the Day
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Words to meditate on, quoted from the speeches and writings of the great orator Jonathan Bowden. "...raise them, and their level."
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ASCETIC
Meaning:
• a person who renounces the material world and leads a life of austere self-discipline, especially as an act of religious devotion
• the acceptance of pain & suffering as a kind of fuel for the purpose of striving toward (often spiritual) goals
• from ancient Greek askēsis meaning 'training' or 'exercise'
SAGACITY
Meaning:
• the quality of being keen, perceptive, and sound in judgment
ANNIHILATION
Meaning:
• complete destruction or obliteration
• Physics: the conversion of matter into energy
Etymology Note: from the Latin roots ad- and nihil, meaning "to-nothing"
AUTOPHAGY
Meaning:
• the process of self-devouring
• the natural, conserved degradation of the cell that removes unnecessary or dysfunctional components
• literally 'self-eating' from the ancient Greek autóphagos
SCIMITAR
Meaning:
• a saber having a curved blade with the edge on the convex side and used chiefly by Arabs and Turks
MIASMA
Meaning:
• noxious exhalations from putrescent organic matter
• poisonous effluvia or germs polluting the atmosphere
• a dangerous, foreboding, or deathlike influence
• in ancient Greek mythology, a spiritual pollution of a given place
HEURISTIC
Meaning:
• enabling someone to discover or learn something for themselves
• proceeding to a solution by trial and error or by rules that are only loosely defined
PREPONDERANCE
Meaning:
• superiority in weight, force, or influence
• the quality or fact of being greater in number, quantity, or importance
VERTIGINOUS
Meaning:
• turning about an axis, revolving, rotary or whirling
• tending to produce vertigo, dizzying
• inclined to change quickly, unstable, inconstant
