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Word of the Day – Intransigence

  •  Adjective:  Intransigence
    1.  Refusing to moderate a position, especially an extreme position; uncompromising.
  • Synonyms:
    1. stubbornness
    2. inflexibility
    3. obstinacy
    4. mulishness
    5. pigheadedness
    6. rigidity
  • Usage:

“Not only does their moral system not allow compromise, but extreme conservatives believe that if this intransigence leads to a non-functioning  government, so much the better, since that would prove the government doesn’t work.” ~~  from the book referenced below

  • Encountered:

While reading The Little Blue Book by George Lakoff and Elisabeth Wehling

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Word of the Day – Revenant

  •  Noun:  Revenant
    1. a person who has returned, especially supposedly from the dead.
  • Synonyms:
    1. Apparition
    2. Specter
    3. Phantasm
    4. Spook
    5. Shade
    6. Wraith
  • Usage:

“Under the head of demons are classified only such spirits as are believed to enter into relations with the human race; the term therefore includes (I) human souls regarded as genii or familiars, (2) such as receive a cult (for which see Ancestor Worship), and (3) ghosts or other malevolent revenants; excluded are souls conceived as inhabiting another world.

  • Encountered:

The new Leonardo DiCaprio film titled, The Revenant

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