The Razor's Edge Glossary

The Razor's Edge Glossary

Impromptu

Doing something with planning

Anticipate

Predicting something to happen

Remnants

Remains of an item/place

Pride

A feeling of immense personal satisfaction

Yearn

Strong feeling of longing

Precarious

Uncertain

Albeit

Though

Scrutinize

Inspect closely

verisimilitude

Related to truth, credibility and authenticity.

colloquial

Informal conversational language native to a particular culture or region.

vicissitudes

The random changes in circumstance or fortune that lives are subject to.

sojourn

A brief stay making up part of a longer journey.

illustrious

The fame that comes with admiration rather than merely being well-known.

indefatigable

Untiring and unrelenting; stead and industrious.

fulsome

Overbearing with attempts at flattery.

mellifluous

A sound that is pleasing to the senses.

Bohemian

Characterized by a rejection of the traditional values of a society and an embrace of unconventional ideas, beliefs and behavior.

provincial

Given to the conservative outlook shaped by insular small town values and inherent suspicion of anything new or radical.

puerile

Marked by a prolonged persistence of immaturity and childishness.

loafing

The consequences of rejecting conventional notions of a strong work ethic.

inscrutable

Maintaining a perpetual quality of mystery which is difficult if not impossible to penetrate through to a meaningful explanation or definition.

deprecate

To belittle with disparaging comments.

hackneyed

Trite, overfamiliar and unoriginal.

prosaic

Commonplace and ordinary with a notable lack of evidence of the ignition of a creative sparki.

acrimony

A bitterness that has built up over time as the result of events and situations contributing to the evolution of ill-feelings.

hauteur

A sense of pride invested with an innate feeling of superiority to others.

transmigration

The potential for the soul to move to another body following the demise of the body it currenty inhabits.

materialism

A doctrine based on the willingness to sacrifice intangible values of character like ethics and morals in favor of the worth of material items that can be possessed.

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