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• Gypsies
  ...exts it is still used to describe the Romany, it also describes those in [[English]] speaking countries who live a lifestyle similar to that of the Romany, or ...have come from [[Egypt]]". The OED records the first usage of the word in English as 1514, with several more in the same century, and that both [[Edmund Spen
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• Layman
  .../wiki/Laity ''laity''] comes from the [[Greek]] laikos which meant "of the people", "common" (common, in the [[meaning]] "unholy", "unclean" and similar). Th ...in_layman%27s_terms ''in layman’s terms''] has come into wide use in the [[English]] speaking world. To put something in layman’s terms is to describe a [[c
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• Hunger
  ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] hungor; akin to Old High German hungar hunger, Lithuanian kanka torture ...e most commonly used term to describe the [[social]] condition of [[Person|people]] (or [[organisms]]) who frequently [[experience]], or live with the threat
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• Ethnic
  ...n ethnicus, from [[Greek]] ethnikos national, gentile, from ethnos nation, people; akin to Greek ēthos [[custom]] ...ethnos, normally translated as "[[nation]]." The terms refer currently to people thought to have common [[ancestry]] who [[share]] a distinctive [[culture]]
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• Folk
  ...H.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] folc; akin to Old High German folc people ...ly]] referred to a "host of [[warriors]]". Compare Old Norse folk meaning "people" but more so "army" or "detachment", German Gefolge ("host"), and Lithuania
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• Lullaby
  ...Middle English]) + ''bye'', interjection used to lull a child, from Middle English ''by'' ...tion "Lilith – abi!" ["Lilith – begone"] which is a possible origin of the English word "lullaby".
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• Spell
  ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English]; akin to Old High German spel talk, tale ...pells into [[psychological]] [[magic]], which seeks to [[influence]] other people's [[minds]] to do the magician's will, such as with a [[love]] spell, or il
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• Neighborhood
  ...(akin to Old High German nāhgibūr); akin to Old English nēah near and Old English gebūr dweller — Neighbourhoods are typically generated by social [[interaction]] among people living near one another. In this sense they are local social [[units]] larg
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• Chinese
  *People who reside in and hold citizenship of the People's Republic of China (mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau) or the Republic o ...oups live in China that are officially recognized by the government of the People's Republic of China, such as Han, Zhuang, Manchu, Tibetans, and other estab
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• Shyness
  ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] scēoh; akin to Old High German sciuhen to [[frighten]] off ...pproached by other people, especially in new situations or with unfamiliar people. Shyness may come from [[genetic]] traits, the [[environment]] in which a [
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• Tandem
  ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] ''thæt'' that The [[English]] word "tandem" derives from the Latin adverb ''tandem'' meaning "at length
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• Zion
  ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English], [[citadel]] in [[Palestine]] which was the [[nucleus]] of [[Jerusalem]], ...ayin Zayin]. The commonly used form is an adopted mis-transliteration in [[English]] based on the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant Protestant] German
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• Suburb
  ...first recorded usage of the term in [[English]], according to the [[Oxford English Dictionary]], was made by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wycliffe John ...ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_city inner city] areas, but in Australian English, "suburb" has become largely synonymous with what is called a "[[neighborho
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• Meadow
  ...N_PERIOD Old English] ''mǣdwe'', oblique case form of ''mǣd''; akin to Old English ''māwan'' to mow .../Grass grass] and other non-woody plants (grassland). The term is from Old English ''mædwe''. In [[agriculture]] a meadow is grassland which is not grazed by
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• Clerk
  ...n American English, this includes shop staff, but in British English, such people are known as shop assistants and are not considered to be clerks. Also, the
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• Fealty
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] feute, fealtye, from Anglo-French feelté, fealté, from [[Latin]] fidelit ...ipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages medieval Europe], fealty was sworn between two people, the obliged person (vassal) and a person of rank (lord). This was done as
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• Gullibility
  ...th century. The first attestation of ''gullibility'' known to the [[Oxford English Dictionary]] appears in 1793, and ''gullible'' in 1825. The OED gives gulli ...pear in the 1900 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_English_Dictionary New English Dictionary].
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• Egalitarian
  *2 : a social [[philosophy]] advocating the removal of inequalities among people ...ocial [[philosophy]] advocating the removal of economic inequalities among people.
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• Ageing
  '''Ageing''' (British English) or '''aging''' (American English) is the accumulation of [[changes]] in an [[organism]] or object over time. ...e distinguished from "social ageing" (cultural age-[[expectations]] of how people should act as they grow older) and "biological ageing" (an [[organism]]'s [
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• Native
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] natif, from Middle French, from [[Latin]] nativus, from natus, past partic ...fly Australian : having a usually superficial resemblance to a specified [[English]] plant or [[animal]]
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• Talent
  ...sidered to be an innate, [[personal]] gift possessed by [[relatively]] few people. In [[essence]], someone with talent has an aptitude to do certain [[things ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] talente, from [[Latin]] talenta, plural of talentum unit of weight or [[mo
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• Naked
  ...glish#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Old English nacod; akin to Old High German nackot naked, [[Latin]] nudus, Greek gymnos ...[entertainment]] of various [[types]]. Nudity in the [[presence]] of other people may give rise to [[controversy]].
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• Reprobate
  The [[English]] [[word]], reprobate, is from the [[Latin]] root probare (English: prove, test), and thus derived from the Latin, reprobatus ([[reproved]], [ ...nconditional [[election]] which derives that some of [[mankind]] ([[Chosen People|the elect]]) are predestined by [[God]] for [[salvation]]. Therefore, the r
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• Controversy
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] controversie, from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] controversia, from controv ...ture]] enough or can find a common ground to [[share]] and [[discuss]] its people's [[feelings]], and one's own direct [[observations]] and [[experiences]] o
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• Tribulation
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] tribulacion, from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] tribulation-, tribulatio, f ...hatology]], the Tribulation is a [[relatively]] short period of time where people who follow [[God]] will [[experience]] worldwide persecution and be [[Pure|
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• Nightmare
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from ''night'' + ''mare'' ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] "mare", a [[mythological]] [[demon]] who torments [[human being]]s with [[
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• 64:2 The Foxhall Peoples
  ...//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe Europe] by a somewhat superior and prolific people, whose [[descendants]] soon spread over the entire continent from the ice i .../North_Sea North Sea], but some three or four are still above water on the English coast.
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• Deafness
  ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] ''dēaf''; akin to [[Greek]] ''typhlos'' [[blind]], ''typhein'' to smoke, ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] ''dēaf'', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch ''doof'' and German ''taub
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• Rebuke
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French rebucher, rebouker to blunt, check, reprimand In [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_law English law] and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_law canon law] of the [ht
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• Response
  ...1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] & [[Latin]]; Middle English respounce, from Anglo-French respuns, respounce, from Latin responsum reply ...ply or a reaction: as a : a verse, phrase, or [[word]] sung or said by the people or choir after or in reply to the officiant in a liturgical service
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• Clan
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Scottish Gaelic clann offspring, clan, from Old Irish cland plant, o :b : a [[group]] of people tracing descent from a common ancestor : [[family]]
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• Mob
  ...in]] phrase mobile vulgus [[meaning]] "the fickle crowd", from which the [[English]] term "mob" was originally derived in the 1680s. ...ocracy ("rule of the general [[populace]]") is [[democracy]] ("rule of the people") spoiled by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demagoguery demagoguery], "[[ty
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• Soirée
  ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] sīth late A '''party''' is a gathering of people who have been invited by a [[host]] for the [[purposes]] of [[socializing]]
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• Baggage
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''bagage'', from Middle French, from ''bagues'' belongings, baggage ...ng to the [[Oxford English Dictionary]], the word luggage enters printed [[English]] in 1596. The word derived from the verb "lug," as in "that which needs to
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• Waste
  ...tive, desolate, waste, from [[Latin]] vastus; in other senses, from Middle English wasten to waste Waste is sometimes a [[subjective]] [[concept]], because items that some people discard may have [[value]] to others. It is widely [[recognized]] that wast
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• Dizziness
  ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] ''dysig'' stupid; akin to Old High German ''tusig'' stupid ...e sensation of spinning or having one's surroundings spin about them. Many people find vertigo very disturbing and often report associated nausea and vomitin
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• David Crystal
  ...ed St Mary's College, Seftonfrom 1951] He grew up bilingual in Welsh and [[English]], which influenced his approach to language education. ...aphy]]. He is the Patron of the International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language (IATEFL).
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• Whey
  ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] ''hwæg''; akin to Middle Dutch ''wey'' whey ...upplements can help regulate and reduce spikes in blood sugar levels among people with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_2_diabetes type 2 diabetes] by inc
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• Staring
  [[File:lighterstill.jpg]][[File:People-staring-at-computers.jpg|right|frame]] ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] ''starian''; akin to Old High German ''starēn'' to stare, [[Greek]] ''ste
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• Wilderness
  ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] wilddēoren of wild beasts ...ems]] that are, or have been, inhabited or [[influenced]] by activities of people may still be considered "wild." This way of looking at wilderness includes
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• City
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] citie large or small town, from Anglo-French cité, from Medieval [[Latin] *3 : the people of a city
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• Actors
  ...word is sexist. [[Gender]]-neutral usage of actor has re-emerged in modern English, especially when referring to [[male]] and [[female]] performers [[collecti Actors were [[traditionally]] not people of high [[status]], and in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Middle_
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• Calendar
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] calender, from Anglo-French or Medieval Latin; Anglo-French kalender, from The [[English]] [[word]] calendar is derived from the [[Latin]] word kalendae, which was
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• Shalom
  ...aning ''peace'', ''hello'', ''goodbye'' and ''wellbeing.'' As it does in [[English]], it can refer to either [[peace]] between two entities (especially betwee ...Arabic ''[[Assalamu alaikum]]''. On Erev [[Shabbat]] (Sabbath eve), Jewish people have a custom of singing a song which is called [[Shalom aleichem#Friday ni
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• Anoint
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French enoint, past participle of enoindre, from [[Latin]] inu The [[word]] is known in [[English]] since c. 1303, deriving from Old French enoint "smeared on", pp. of enoin
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• Shunning
  ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] ''scunian'', abhor, shrink back with [[fear]], seek [[safety]] from an [[e ...nformation related to particular [[viewpoint]]. Some groups are made up of people who shun the same [[ideas]].
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• Sabbath
  ...09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] sabat, from Anglo-French & Old English, from [[Latin]] sabbatum, from [[Greek]] sabbaton, from [[Hebrew]] shabbāt ...regard it as having been instituted as a "perpetual [[covenant]] [for] the people of [[Israel]]" ([https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Book_of_Exo
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• Gloom
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''gloumen'' People describe [[light]] conditions as gloomy when the [https://en.wikipedia.org/
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• Imp
  ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] ''impa'', from ''impian'' to imp ...d or harmed by certain [[weapons]] and [[enchantments]], or be kept out of people's [[homes]] by the use of wards.
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• Friendship
  ...g/wiki/English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] freondscipe "friendship, mutual liking and regard," also "conjugal love" fr. Old English ''freond'' "one attached to another by [[feelings]] of personal regard and
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• Hierarchy
  ...as being "above," "below," or "at the same level as" one another. (Oxford English Dictionary ISBN 0-19-861186-2) ...osed to [[anarchy]] where there is no concept of higher or lower items (or people) -- everything is considered equal.
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• World War II
  ...distinction between civilian and military resources. Over seventy million people, the majority of them civilians, were killed, making it the deadliest confl
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• Blindness
  ..._ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English]; akin to Old High German blint blind, Old English blandan to mix ...]] as a normally sighted person could from 200 feet (61 m). In many areas, people with [[average]] acuity who nonetheless have a visual field of less than 20
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• Tease
  ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] tǣsan; akin to Old High German zeisan to tease ...sing can be regarded as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flirting flirting]. People may be teased on such matters as their [[appearance]], weight, [[behavior]]
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• Kything
  ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] ''cȳthan'', from ''cūth'' In such a frame of [[mind]], the two people [[intuitively]] know the [[meaning]] of what the other is telling them, dis
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• Chaperone
  The [[English]] verb ''chaperon'', "to be a chaperon," is first recorded in [https://en.w *2: an older person who accompanies [[young people]] at a [[social]] gathering to ensure proper [[behavior]]; broadly : one d
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• Eccentric
  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Middle English], from Medieval [[Latin]] eccentricus, from [[Greek]] ekkentros, from ex ou Eccentric first appeared in [[English]] in 1551 as an [[astronomical]] term [[meaning]] "a [[circle]] in which th
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• Commonwealth
  ...eal," to mean "a [[state]] in which the supreme [[power]] is vested in the people; a republic or [[democratic]] state." ...one founded on [[law]] and united by compact or tacit [[agreement]] of the people for the common good
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• Voluntary
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French voluntarie, from [[Latin]] voluntarius, from voluntas w ...intended to promote [[good]] or improve [[human]] [[quality]] of life, but people also volunteer for their own skill [[development]], to meet others, to make
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• Principle
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Middle French principe, principle, from Old French, from [[Latin]] p ...and many dictionaries warn against confusing principle and principal, many people still do. Principle is only a noun; principal is both adjective and noun.
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• Autumn
  ...fall in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_English American] [[English]]) is one of the four [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperate temperate] [ ...ing in towns (especially those who could [[read]] and [[write]], the only people whose use of [[language]] we now know), the word harvest lost its [[referen
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• King
  ...SAXON_PERIOD Old English] cyning; akin to Old High German kuning king, Old English cynn kin ...ng also into the modern period, e.g. Maquinna, king of perhaps 2000 Nootka people in the early 20th century.
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• Feud
  ...e, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German fēhida hostility, feud, Old English fāh hostile — foe ...ight between parties—often, through [[association]] [[fallacy]], groups of people, especially [[families]] or [[clans]]. Feuds begin because one party (corre
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• Transcripts
  ...honetic transcription of the name of the former Russian president known in English as Boris Yeltsin, followed by accepted hybrid forms in various languages. N ...ent systems. For example, the Mandarin Chinese name for the capital of the People's Republic of China is Beijing in the commonly-used contemporary system Han
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• Auctoritas
  ...nd is the origin of English "[[authority]]". While historically its use in English was restricted to discussions of the political [[history of Rome]], the beg ...g to French linguist [[Emile Benveniste]], ''auctor'' (which also gives us English "[[author]]") is derived from Latin augeō ("to augment"). The ''auctor'' i
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• Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology
  ...overage of principles, theories, techniques, [[artefacts]], [[materials]], people, places, monuments, equipment, and descriptive terms - from amphora to zigg
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• Heaven
  ...ally described as the [[Holiness|holiest]] possible place, accessible by [[people]] according to various standards of [[divinity]], [[goodness]], [[Devotion| ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] ''heofon'' around 1000 referring to the [[Christianity|Christianized]] "pl
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• Hut
  ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] hȳd skin, hide Huts are used as temporary [[shelter]] by people. Huts are quickly built of [[natural]] materials such as ice, stone, leathe
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• Attraction
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from [[Latin]] ''attractus'', past participle of ''attrahere'', from ''ad ''Interpersonal'' '''attraction''' is the attraction between people which leads to [[friendships]] and [[romantic]] [[relationships]]. Interper
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• Scandal
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Late Latin ''scandalum'' stumbling block, [[offense]], from [[Greek] ...umbling-block, the [[metaphor]] is that wrong conduct can impede or "trip" people's [[trust]] or [[faith]].
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• Pride
  ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] prȳde, from prūd proud ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] ''prut'', probably from Old French ''prud'' "[[brave]], valiant" (11th cen
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• Submission
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] ''submission''-, ''submissio'' act of l ...nterpersonal [[problem]], such as partner [[abuse]]. If one or both of the people are experiencing chronic, pervasive [[emotional]] distress then the [[sex]]
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• Law
  The noun ''law'' derives from the late Old English ''lagu'', meaning something laid down or fixed [https://www.etymonline.com/ ..."interpretive concept to achieve justice, as in "[[authority]]" to mediate people's conflicting interests, and even as "the command of a sovereign, backed by
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• Synagogue
  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Middle English] synagoge, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin synagoga, from [[Greek]] syna ...assemble. [[Worship]] can also be carried out alone or with fewer than ten people assembled together. However there are certain [[prayers]] that are communal
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• Melees
  ...ge mélange], [[milieu]]. Like other common foreign-derived terms used in [[English]], the word is sometimes written without accents (i.e. as "melee"). ...[[confused]] [[struggle]]; especially : a hand-to-hand fight among several people
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• Canals
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from [[Latin]] canalis pipe, [[channel]], from canna reed ...portation]] canals used for carrying ships and boats loaded with goods and people, often [[connected]] to existing [[lakes]], [[rivers]], or [[oceans]].
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• Stroke
  ...glish#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Old English ''strācian''; akin to Old High German ''strīhhan'' to stroke ...e while 3.2 million deaths resulted from hemorrhagic stroke. About half of people who have had a stroke live less than one year. Overall, two thirds of strok
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• Numerology
  [[Latin]] ''numerus'' + English -''o- + -logy'' ...story of numerological [[ideas]], the word "numerology" is not recorded in English before c.1907.
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• Travel
  The [[word]] originates from the Middle [[English]] word travailen ("to toil"), which comes from the Old French word travaill '''Travel''' is the [[change]] in location of people on a trip through any means of transport from one location to another. Trav
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• Prose
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] prosa, from [[feminine]] of prorsus, p *1 a : the ordinary [[language]] people use in [[speaking]] or [[writing]]
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• Bigotry
  ...e King, turning about, called him bigot, which then passed from him to his people. This is quite probably [[fiction]]al, as Gisla is unknown in Frankish sour ...the Normans, but it is unclear whether or not this is how it entered the [[English]] [[language]].
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• Praise
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] preisen, from Anglo-French preiser, priser to appraise, [[esteem]] ...er, some people are less affected by or even averse to praise, for example people with [[autism]] or schizoid [[personality]] disorder.[citation needed]
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• Distress
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''destresse'', from Anglo-French ''destresce'', from Vulgar Latin ''distri ...the [[opposite]] of eustress, a [[positive]] stress that [[motivates]] us. People under constant distress are more likely to become sick, mentally or physica
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• Murder
  ...dle English murdre, from Anglo-French, of Germanic [[origin]]; akin to Old English morthor; akin to Old High German mord murder, [[Latin]] mort-, mors death, ...toronomy#Chapter_.5 Deuteronomy 5v17]). The Vulgate and subsequent early [[English]] [[translations]] of the [[Bible]] used the term [[secret]]ly killeth his
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• Rejection
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from [[Latin]] rejectus, past participle of reicere, from re- + jacere to ...]] can be rejected on an [[individual]] basis or by an entire [[group]] of people. Furthermore, rejection can be either [[active]], by bullying, teasing, or
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• Affinity
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''affinite'', from Anglo-French or [[Latin]]; Anglo-French ''affinité'', :b (1) : an [[attraction]] to or liking for something <people with an affinity to [[darkness]] — Mark Twain> <pork and fennel have a na
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• Epistle
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], letter, Epistle, from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] ''epistula'', ''episto ...letter') is a [[writing]] directed or sent to a [[person]] or [[group]] of people, usually an elegant and formal [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didactic dida
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• Vulgar
  ...rom [[Latin]] vulgaris of the mob, vulgar, from volgus, vulgus mob, common people *3 a : of or [[relating]] to the common people : plebeian
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• 2008-05-26-Spanish 11:11
  ...very little will change. The English human contingent counts some 25 odd people. The Spanish group will also grow. It is sizeable now. It is consistent “We expect that for a lengthy period of time the English transmissions will be continue to be translated into Spanish, and that you
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• Growth
  ...mic]] growth, which is only a means —if a very important one —of enlarging people’s choices. ...these choices is building human capabilities —the range of [[things]] that people can do or be in life. The most basic capabilities for human development are
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• Patron
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin & [[Latin]]; Medieval Latin patron *4: the holder of the right of presentation to an [[English]] ecclesiastical benefice
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• Diaspora
  *2a : the movement, [[migration]], or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland <the black diaspora to north :b : people settled far from their ancestral homelands <African diaspora>
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• Mountain
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French muntaine, from Vulgar Latin montanea, from [[feminine]] ...tinuity has been used as criteria for defining a mountain. In the [[Oxford English Dictionary]] a mountain is defined as "a [[natural]] elevation of the [[ear
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• Syndicate
  *1: a group of [[people]] or [[businesses]] that [[work]] [[together]] *2: a group of people who are involved in organized [[crime]]
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• Sacrilege
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] sacrilegium, from sacrilegus one who ro ...igious]], and their [[spiritually]]-based uses in modern [[English]], many people mistakenly assume that the two [[words]] are etymologically linked, or that
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• 2011-05-13-New Transmission System
  ...he original message that follows was in French and has been translated for English audiences] ...onton, as well as from Havona and Paradise, to communicate directly with people who are in your local universe. The local universe in return can use this
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• Oath
  ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] āth; akin to Old High German eid oath, Middle Irish oeth. The spec. sense ...ing something or someone the oath-taker holds [[sacred]], is an oath. Many people take an oath by holding in their hand or placing over their head a [[book]]
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• Fraud
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] fraude, from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] fraud-, fraus ...iction]]. Fraud is a [[crime]], and also a civil law violation. Defrauding people or [[entities]] of [[money]] or valuables is a common [[purpose]] of fraud,
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• Rural
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Middle French, from [[Latin]] ruralis, from rur-, rus open land *of or relating to the country, country people or life, or [[agriculture]]
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• Wand
  ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] windan to wind, twist ...'s most feared [[tool]] is her wand, whose [[magic]] is capable of turning people into stone.
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• Odor
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] odour, from Anglo-French odur, from [[Latin]] odor; akin to Latin olēre ...r]], age, state of [[health]], and private affectations. Common odors that people are used to, such as their own [[body]] odor, are less noticeable to [[indi
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• Guild
  ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] gield tribute, guild *1 : an [[association]] of people with similar interests or pursuits; especially : a medieval association of
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• Solitary confinement
  ...wn''', M2030D, "the SHU" (pronounced 'shoe') or "the pound" (or in British English "the block"), is a punishment or special form of imprisonment in which a pr ...consider it necessary for prisoners who are considered dangerous to other people ('the most predatory' prisoners), those who might be capable of leading cri
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• Sacred
  ...itual context ("sacred truths" in a constitution). It is often ascribed to people ("a holy man" of religious occupation, "holy prophet" who is venerated by h ...is Old English root. The modern word 'health' is also derived from the Old English hal. As “wholeness”, holiness may be taken to indicate a state of relig
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• Petition
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] petition-, petitio, from petere to seek ...se of Commons] in the 18th and 19th centuries, the largest being the Great/People's Charter, or petition of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartists Char
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• Land
  ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English]; akin to Old High German lant land, Middle Irish lann *4 : the people of a country <the land rose in [[rebellion]]>
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• Re-public
  1604, "state in which supreme power rests in the people," from Fr. république, from L. respublica (abl. republica), lit. res publi ..., whereas republic implied a system of government in which the will of the people was mediated by representatives, who might be wiser and better educated tha
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• Queer
  ...ive senses in German are apparently much later [[developments]] than the [[English]] [[word]]. ...strongly pejorative use has certainly not vanished, but a use by some gay people and some academics as a neutral or even positive term has established itsel
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• Sage
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from Vulgar [[Latin]] *sapius, from Latin sapere to ta *2. senseless people, because they think they are wise.
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• Curse
  ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] * German people, including the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Dutch Pennsylvan
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• Jargon
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French jargun, gargon ...ued, "It seems that one ought to begin by composing this [[language]], but people begin by speaking and [[writing]] and the [[language]] remains to be [[comp
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• 2008-02-26-Let Others Talk
  ...r itself, and will not need any demonstration. Sometimes you wish to help people in seeing their errors, and show them the best way. Translated into English from the Spanish transcript by Nelson.
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• Nap
  ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] hnappian; akin to Old High German hnaffezen to doze ...onal]] daily [[practice]]. It is common for small [[children]] and elderly people to take frequent naps. However, naps are not recommended for those sufferin
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• Folklore
  ...[customs]], [[tales]], sayings, [[dances]], or art forms preserved among a people ...people who study folklore are sometimes referred to as "folklorists". The English antiquarian [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Thoms William Thoms] int
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• Publishing
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], [[modification]] of Anglo-French publier, from [[Latin]] publicare, from ...liser to announce, make [[public]] (early 15th cent. or earlier; perhaps < English). Compare Old Occitan publicar (late 12th cent.; also poblicar, pobleiar, p
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• Prison
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] prehension-, prehensio act of seizing, A '''prison''' (from Old French prisoun) is a place in which people are [[physically]] confined and, usually, deprived of a range of [[personal
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• Masochism
  ...[words]]. [[English]] has thousands of such words, taken from the names of people both real and [[fictional]]. Masochism comes from the name of the 19th cent
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• Sin
  * Punishment for sins, from other people, from God either in life or in [[afterlife]], or from the [[Universe]] in g The [[word]] sin derives from [[Old English]] synn, recorded in use as early as the 9th century.[1] The same [[root]] a
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• Myopia
  ...as being ''nearsighted'' (American English) and ''shortsighted'' (British English), is a condition of the eye where the [[light]] that comes in does not dire ...the United States, and 10–20% in Africa. Myopia is less common in African people and associated diaspora. In Americans between the ages of 12 and 54, myopia
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• Pharisees
  ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] farise, from Late Latin pharisaeus, from [[Greek]] pharisaios, from Aramai ...tes that the ''Pharisees'' received the backing and goodwill of the common people, apparently in [[contrast]] to the more elite [https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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• Viking
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] texts. ..., Viking culture, Viking art, Viking religion, Viking ship, and so on. The people of medieval Scandinavia are also referred to as Norse, although this term p
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• Luxury
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] luxurie, from Anglo-French luxorie, from [[Latin]] luxuria rankness, luxu Luxury goods are said to have high income elasticity of demand: as people become [[wealth]]ier, they will buy more and more of the luxury good. This
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• Poverty
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] poverte, from Anglo-French poverté, from [[Latin]] paupertat-, paupertas, ...ed contextually as economic inequality in the location or society in which people live.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destitute]
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• Greetings
  ...o irritate, annoy’, ‘to address, salute’, In modern German and Dutch as in English, the sense ‘salute’ has become the prominent one, such other senses as ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English].: To approach, come up to; to begin upon, begin to treat or handle, take i
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• Empathy
  ...://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_B._Titchener Edward B. Titchener] into the English term empathy. ...ompass]] a broad range of [[emotional]] states, including caring for other people and having a [[desire]] to help them; experiencing emotions that match anot
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• Dormitory
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from [[Latin]] ''dormitorium'', from ''dormire'' ...ed [[meaning]]: it refers specifically to an individual room in which many people sleep, typically at a boarding school. The UK equivalent of the American wo
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• Vocabulary
  ...tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eskimo_words_for_snow Eskimo words for snow]". English speakers can also elaborate their snow and cattle vocabularies when the nee ...nto a wide range of vocabulary size by age five or six, at which time an [[English]]-speaking child will know about 2,500–5,000 words. An average student le
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• Artifacts
  #: Ref: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the [[English|English Language]], Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. 08 Mar. 2007. ...l [[behavior]]. Artifacts are the objects or products designed and used by people to meet re-occurring needs or to solve problems. An example of a common soc
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• Liminality
  [[Persons|People]], places, or [[things]] may not complete a [[transition]], or a transition # "liminal", Oxford English Dictionary. Ed. J.A. Simpson and E.S.C. Weiner. 2nd ed. Oxford: Clarendon P
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• Smile
  ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] smerian to [[laugh]], [[Sanskrit]] smayate he smiles ...eval of your name is enhanced as is shown in neuroscience research, versus people who have neutral [[facial]] [[expressions]].
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• Slang
  ...''slengenamn'', which means "nickname"), but is discounted by the [[Oxford English Dictionary]] based on "date and early associations". ...the user is familiar with whatever is referred to, or with a [[group]] of people who are familiar with it and use the term.
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• Positive
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] positivus, from positus, past participl ...o, or [[constituting]] the [[degree]] of comparison that is expressed in [[English]] by the unmodified and uninflected form of an adjective or adverb and deno
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• Monk
  ...ious [[asceticism]], living either alone or with any number of like-minded people, whilst always maintaining some degree of [[physical]] separation from thos ...[[Greek]] [[language]] the term can apply to men or women; but in modern [[English]] it is in use only for men, while nun is used for female monastics.
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• Judgment
  The term '''judgment''' (American English) or '''judgement''' (British English) generally refers to the considered evaluation of evidence in the formation ...d judge that "It is raining" if there are raindrops hitting the window, if people outside are using umbrellas, and if there are clouds in the sky. Someone wh
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• Brigand
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] brigaunt, from Middle French brigand, from Old Italian brigante, from brig ...igandage may be, and not infrequently has been, the last [[resource]] of a people subject to [[invasion]]. The Calabrians who fought for [https://en.wikipedi
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• Shepherd
  ...D Old English] scēaphyrde, from scēap sheep + hierde herdsman; akin to Old English heord herd ...(grazing at large); usually one so employed for hire; or one of a pastoral people who herds (his own) sheep, goats, etc.
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• Warrior
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] werreour, from Anglo-French *werreier, guerreier, from warreier, guerreier ...as well. In some [[societies]], warfare may be so central that the entire people (or, more often, large parts of the [[male]] [[population]]) may be conside
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• Shamans
  ...ly from the [[Manchu]] [[language]], and indeed is "the only commonly used English word that is a loan from this language". ISBN 1557865604 ...and traditional healers, who assert the word comes from a specific place, people, and set of practices.
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• Pantheon
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] Panteon, a [[temple]] at [[Rome]], from [[Latin]] Pantheon, from [[Greek]] *3: the gods of a people; especially : the officially recognized gods
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• Hatred
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] enmite, from Anglo-French enemité, enemisté, from enemi enemy ...mals]], to hatred of oneself or other people, entire [[groups]] of people, people in general, [[existence]], or everything. Though not always, hatred is ofte
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• Host
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] hoste host, guest, from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] hospit-, hospes, prob An MC usually presents performers, speaks to the [[audience]], entertains people, and generally keeps the event moving. An MC may also tell [[jokes]] or [[a
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• Piety
  ...[[virtue]]; a man with pietas respected his [[responsibilities]] to other people, [[gods]] and [[entities]] (such as the [[state]]), and [[understood]] his In [[spiritual]] terminology, '''piety''' is [[Adam]]. While [[different]] people may understand its [[meaning]] differently, it is generally used to refer e
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• Countenance
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] contenance, from Anglo-French cuntenance, contenance, from Medieval Latin Some people have [[traditionally]] linked some differences in personal [[appearance]] s
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• Literature
  ...ly "acquaintance with letters" as in the first sense given in the [[Oxford English Dictionary]] (from the [[Latin]] ''littera'' meaning "an individual written ...s of Jeffrey Archer as unworthy of inclusion under the general heading of "English literature". Critics may exclude works from the classification "literature
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• Acuity
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''acuite'' acridity, from Middle French ''acuité'', from Medieval Latin ' ...assic [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snellen_chart Snellen chart]) as most people will recognise them but other [[symbols]] (such as a letter E facing in dif
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• Horde
  ...rd were due to the various [[channels]] through which the word came into [[English]] :b : a people or [[tribe]] of nomadic life
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• Secret
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French secré, secret, from [[Latin]] secretus, from past part ...en controversial, depending on the [[content]] of the secret, the group or people keeping the secret, and the [[motivation]] for secrecy. Secrecy by [[govern
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• Luck
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] lucke, from Middle Dutch luc; akin to Middle High German gelücke luck ...rm "luck" is pervasive in common [[speech]]. There are at least two senses people usually mean when they use the term, the proscriptive sense and the descrip
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• Symbol
  [[Psychology]] has found that people, and even animals, can respond to symbols as if they were the objects they
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• Tribe
  ...PERIOD Middle English], from [[Latin]] tribus, a division of the [[Roman]] people, tribe The [[English]] [[word]] tribe occurs in 13th century Middle English [[literature]] as referring to one of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tw
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• Accounting
  ...the sense of narrāre ‘tell’; the variant spellings passed to aconter and [[English]] account, accompt, though here with no corresponding division of meaning. ...n [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopotamia Mesopotamia] (Assyrians). The people of that time relied on [[primitive]] accounting [[methods]] to [[record]] t
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• Convocation
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Middle French & Latin; Middle French, from [[Latin]] convocation-, c ...'calling [[together]]', translating the [[Greek]] ecclesia) is a group of people [[formally]] assembled for a special [[purpose]].
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• Mood
  ...erally have either a positive or negative [[valence]]. In other [[words]], people typically speak of being in a good mood or a bad mood. Unlike acute, emotio Etymologically, mood derives from the [[Old English]] mōd which denoted military courage, but could also refer to a person's h
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• Subversion
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from Late Latin subversion-, subversio, from [[Latin]] ..., such as eroding the basis of [[belief]] in the [[status quo]] or setting people against each other.
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• Scapegoat
  ...ction "to make (someone) a scapegoat". Scapegoat derives from the common [[English]] translation of the Hebrew term ''azazel'' (Hebrew: עזאזל) which occu ...s the name of a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_angel fallen angel]. English Christian Bible versions traditionally follow the translation of the [https
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• Tourism
  ...around a central point or axis'. This [[meaning]] has changed in modern [[English]] to represent 'one's turn'. The suffix –ism is defined as 'an action or ...s, the meaning of the word has shifted. By the middle of the 18th century, English noblemen used the term 'turn' to refer to trips undertaken for [[education]
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• 2010-05-19-You Are Loved
  ..., but do have to make up words to fit, as we have to give messages to many people who speak the different languages of your world. ...e to be turned to because he is already there inside you; except that most people don’t bother to look, or look in the wrong places. Don’t look to find G
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• Treason
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] tresoun, from Anglo-French traisun, from [[Latin]] tradition-, traditio ac ...Dolchstoßlegende], the accusation of treason towards a large [[group]] of people can be a unifying [[political]] [[message]].
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• Privilege
  Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin privilegium law for or against a private per ...separate laws for different social classes (nobility, clergy and ordinary people), instead subjecting everyone to the same common law. Privileges were aboli
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• Evangelism
  ...owever, the term may be used for the [[practice]] of attempting to convert people to any religion, even if that religion does not specifically require that i ...odern word "Gospel" comes from the [[Old English]] word "Godspell." In Old English, "god" with a long "o" meant "[[good]]," and "spell" meant "word" (we carry
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• Oral history
  ...fer to ask open-ended questions and avoid leading questions that encourage people to say what they think the interviewer wants them to say. Some interviews ...project, oral historians attempt to record the memories of many different people when researching a given event. Interviewing a single person provides a si
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• Factions
  ...the permanent and [[aggregate]] interests of the [[community]]." In plain English this is a group that pursues [[self interest]] at the expense of the common ...few individuals playing key roles, acting as a [[magnet]] for like-minded people, leading the activities of the faction, and acting as a prominent [[voice]]
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• Language
  ...l number of phonemes (as few as 15 for Hawaiian and approximately 35 for [[English]]), which are without intrinsic [[meaning]], are combined to form units tha ...humans, although all agree equally that the specific language variety that people acquire as children depends on the social [[context]] within which they are
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• Normal
  ...Abnormality varies greatly in how pleasant or unpleasant this is for other people. The [[Oxford English Dictionary]] defines "normal" as 'conforming to a [[standard]]'. Another po
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• Massacre
  ...olomew's Day massacre]). Massacre can also be used as a verb, as "To kill (people or, less commonly, [[animals]]) in numbers, esp. brutally and indiscriminat
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• Vacation
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] vacacioun, from Anglo-French vacacion, from [[Latin]] vacation-, vacatio ...pecific trip or [[journey]] for the [[purposes]] of recreation or tourism. People often take a vacation during specific holiday observances, or for specific
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• Marriage
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] mariage, which first appears in 1250–1300 C.E. This in turn is derived f '''Marriage''' is a [[social]] [[union]] or legal contract between people that creates kinship. It is an [[institution]] in which interpersonal [[rel
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• Oahspe
  ...the "new bible," "a large quarto volume of over 900 pages," to a group of people. Newbrough claimed that the [[book]] was not a [[sacred]] text per se, but ...lish of the King James version of the Christian bible is mixed in with the English of today's."[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ballou_Newbrough]
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• Demand
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''demaunden'', from Anglo-French ''demander'', from Medieval Latin ''deman ...buyers at various prices. The quantity demanded is the amount of a product people are willing to buy at a certain price; the [[relationship]] between price a
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• Spectacle
  ...m of art in [[theater]] dating from the 17th century in [[English language|English]] [[drama]]. ...am Davenant]], who would become one of the major [[impressario]]s of the [[English Restoration]], also wrote pre-Revolutionary masques with Inigo Jones. The
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• New York City
  ...tatistical Area in the United States, containing an estimated 23.4 million people. ...Amsterdam New Amsterdam] in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 New York served as the capitol of the United States from 17
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• Trap
  ...h trape (of Germanic origin); akin to Middle Dutch trappe trap, stair, Old English treppan to tread ...scans]. Metal detectors are often built in in order to prevent entrance of people carrying [[weapons]]. Such use is particularly frequent in banks and jewell
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• Caste
  ...e] to describe inherited class [[status]] in their own European society. [[English]] caste is from Latin castus "[[pure]], cut off, [[segregated]]", the part ...t such [[perceived]] [[discrimination]] based on caste affects 250 million people worldwide.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste]
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• Castes
  ...o describe inherited class [[status]] in their own European [[society]]. [[English]] caste is from Latin castus "pure, cut off, segregated", the participle o ...ates that such perceived discrimination based on caste affects 250 million people worldwide.
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• Hebrews
  ...vriyyim'' ʿIḇrîm'', ''ʿIḇriyyîm'', "traverse or pass over") are an ancient people defined as descendants of biblical Patriarch '''[[Abraham]]''' (Hebrew אב They were called Ibri, meaning the people from over on the other side of the Jordan river.[https://en.wiktionary.org/
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• Holy
  ...E_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] ''hālig''; akin to Old English ''hāl'' whole ...sh [[radical|root]]. The modern word 'health' is also derived from the Old English ''hal''. As “wholeness”, holiness may be taken to indicate a state of r
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• Weight
  ...R_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] wiht; akin to Old Norse vætt weight, Old English wegan to weigh ...t" continues to be used when, strictly, "mass" is meant. For example, most people would say that an object "weighs one kilogram", even though the kilogram is
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• Worrywart
  ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] (as "wrygan"), it meant, not "to fret," but "to strangle" (putting a whole ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] from a Germanic [[root]]. Several centuries of [[development]] gave "wart"
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• Eserver
  ...published. (Further, the costs this marketing adds to all books discourage people from leisure reading as a common practice.) And publishers tend to encourag ...0 at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canegie_Mellon Carnegie Mellon] as the English Server), attempts to provide an [[alternative]] niche for [[quality]] work,
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• Commute
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from [[Latin]] ''commutare'' to [[change]], exchange, from ''com''- + ''m ...st workers lived less than an hour's walk from their [[work]]. Today, many people travel daily to work a long way from their own towns, [[cities]], and villa
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• Symbols
  ...does not reside only in the scepter. Its location is diffuse, some in the people, some in the king, some in the audience. Humanity lives in a world of diffu The word "symbol" came to the [[English]] [[language]] by way of [[Middle English]], from [[Old French]], from [[Latin]], from the [[Greek language|Greek]]
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• Grace
  Middle English, from Old French, from Latin grātia, from grātus, pleasing; see gwerə-2 ::c.[[Divine]] love and protection bestowed freely on people.
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• Enthusiasm
  ...velation; a vain confidence of divine favour or communication." In current English vernacular the word simply means intense enjoyment, interest, or approval. ...m" was seen in the time around 1700 as the cause of the previous century's English Civil War and its attendant atrocities, and thus it was an absolute social
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• Hysteria
  New Latin, from [[English]] hysteric, adjective, from [[Latin]] hystericus, from [[Greek]] hysterikos ...colloquial use, describes unmanageable [[emotional]] [[Extreme|excesses]]. People who are "hysterical" often lose [[self]]-[[control]] due to an overwhelming
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• Boredom
  ...since 1768. The French term for boredom, ''ennui'', is sometimes used in [[English]] as well. ...is a major [[factor]] impacting [[diverse]] areas of a [[person]]'s life. People ranked low on a boredom-proneness scale were found to have better [[perform
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• Fertility
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Middle French & Latin; Middle French, from [[Latin]] fertilis, from ...opulation]] in one year. "Cohort" data on the other hand, follows the same people over a period of decades. Both period and cohort measures are widely used.[
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• Behavior
  '''Behavior''' or '''behaviour''' (see [[American and British English spelling differences#-our .2F -or|spelling differences]]) refers to the [[a ..., behavior is considered as having no meaning, being not directed at other people and thus is the most basic human [[Action (philosophy)|action]]. Animal beh
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• 2008-03-03-Of Fears and Eternal Life
  ...pening. When these fears are intense, they cause paralysis of free will. People let themselves be guided by their fears, and do only what they feel comfort Translated into English from the Spanish transcript by Nelson.
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• Thunder
  ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] thunor; akin to Old High German thonar thunder, [[Latin]] tonare to thunde ...lightning, followed after some seconds by a rumble of thunder is, for many people, the first [[illustration]] of the [[fact]] that [[sound]] [[travels]] sign
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• Gallery
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] galerie, from Medieval [[Latin]] galeria, probably alteration of galilaea ...e interior walls (as of an auditorium or church) to accommodate additional people; especially : the highest balcony in a [[theater]] commonly having the chea
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• Pedagogy
  ...gh both [[words]] have roughly the same [[origin]]al [[meaning]]. In the [[English]]-speaking world the term pedagogy refers to the [[science]] or theory of e A number of people contributed to the theories of pedagogy, among these are
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• Banquet
  ...ast; especially : an elaborate and often [[ceremonious]] meal for numerous people often in [[honor]] of a person <a [[state]] banquet> A '''banquet''' ([[English]]: /ˈbæŋk.wɪt/, French: [bɑ̃.kɛ]) is a large meal or feast, complete
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• Cain and Abel
  ...omposed in [[Hebrew]] of the same three consonants as a root speculated by people to have originally meant "[[breath]]", because Rabbis postulated one of its ...n used in many European [[languages]] as both surname and first name. In [[English]], however, even Cain features in 17th century, [https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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• Appetite
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] apetit, from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] appetitus, from appetere to stri ..., sometimes called a [[pandemic]]. Given that, in many parts of the world, people are surrounded by a plentiful supply of [[food]] that prevents chronic [[hu
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• Geomancy
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''geomancie'', from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin ''geomantia'', from Geomancy was practiced by people from all social classes. It was one of the most popular forms of divination
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• Disguise
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] disgisen, from Anglo-French desguiser, deguiser, from des- dis- + guise gu ...at true [[identity]] is hidden. [[Camouflage]] is one type of disguise for people, [[animal]]s and objects. Hats, glasses, change in hair style or wigs, plas
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• Caricature
  ...lian ''caricare''—to charge or load. An early [[definition]] occurs in the English doctor [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Browne Thomas Browne]'s [https .../Sam_Viviano Sam Viviano], the term refers only to depictions of real-life people, and not to cartoon fabrications of [[fictional]] characters, which do not
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• Aztec
  Often the term "Aztec" refers exclusively to the people of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenochtitlan Tenochtitlan], situated on a ...x relates that after leaving Aztlán, their god Huitzilopochtli ordered his people to never identify themselves as Azteca, the name of their former masters. I
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• Charity
  The word "'''charity'''" entered the [[English]] [[language]] through the Old French word "charité" which was derived fro ..._Letter_of_Paul_to_the_Corinthians Letter to the Corinthians]. However the English [[word]] more generally used for this [[concept]], both before and since (a
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• Bill of Rights
  ...ill of rights" originates from Britain, and it refers to the fact that the English Bill of Rights was literally a bill which is a proposed law, that was passe
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• Manna
  ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English], from Late Latin, from [[Greek]], from [[Hebrew]] mān ...prophet]] [[Muhammad]] said "Truffles are 'manna' which Allah, sent to the people of Israel through Musa ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses Moses]), and i
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• Procession
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] processioun, from Anglo-French processiun, from Late [[Latin]] & Latin; La ...lements may be used to make a '''procession''' more significant than just "people walking in the same direction":
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• Slavery
  '''Slavery''' is a form of [[force]]d [[labor]] in which people are considered to be, or treated as, the [[property]] of others. Slaves can ...ough Old French and Medieval [[Latin]] - from the medieval word for Slavic people of Central and Eastern Europe, who were the last ethnic group to be capture
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• Exhibits
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from [[Latin]] exhibitus, past participle of exhibēre, from ex- + habēr ...ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curator Curators] are sometimes involved as the people who select the items in an exhibition. [[Writers]] and [[editors]] are some
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• Automatic Writing
  ...rson]] being unaware of what will be written. In some cases, it is done by people in a [[trance]] [[state]]. In others, the writer is aware (not in a trance) ...ence'' described a series of [[experiment]]s designed to determine whether people who believed in automatic writing could be shown that it might be the ideom
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• Misnomer
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English]: from Anglo-Norman French, from the Old French verb ''mesnommer'', from '' ...ds Netherlands] while it only designates a part of that country; sometimes people refer to the [[suburb]]s of a metropolis with the name of the biggest city
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• Epitaph
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''epitaphe'', from Anglo-French & Medieval Latin; Anglo-French, from Medie ...Renaissance] to the 19th century in Western culture, epitaphs for notable people became increasingly lengthy and [[pompous]] descriptions of their [[family]
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• Deference
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''deferren'', ''differren'', from Middle French ''differer'', from [[Latin ...ey will conform to interactional norms. Through acting on those [[norms]], people receive deference.
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• Tribute
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] tribut, from [[Latin]] tributum, from neuter of tributus, past participle ...occur. A tributary or tributary [[state]] is a state, colony, region, or people who pay tribute to a more powerful, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzerain
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• Conspiracy
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French conspirer, from [[Latin]] conspirare to be in [[harmony ...btain an illegal objective. A conspiracy may also refer to a [[group]] of people who make an agreement to form a [[partnership]] in which each member become
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• Scouts
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French ''escuter'' to [[listen]], from [[Latin]] ''auscultare' ...''societies''. The scouts' [[original]] [[purpose]] was to [[protect]] his people from [[enemies]], and to locate [[Food|game]] and new campsites.
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• Genealogy
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''genealogie'', from Anglo-French, from Late Latin ''genealogia'', from [[ ...fessional genealogists. Both try to [[understand]] not just where and when people lived, but also their lifestyles, biographies, and motivations. This often
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• Apathy
  ...felt after witnessing horrific [[acts]], such as the killing or maiming of people during a [[war]]. It is also known to be associated with many conditions in ...ere a package deal" in some [[populations]] which may help illustrate what people mean when they say that "The opposite of [[love]] is not hate, it is apathy
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• Cave
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] cava, from cavus hollow; akin to [[Gre ...atural]] underground [[space]] large enough for a [[human]] to enter. Some people suggest that the term cave should only apply to cavities that have some par
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• Reform
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French refurmer, from [[Latin]] reformare, from re- + formare ...ystem, but try to overthrow whether it be the [[government]] or a group of people themselves.
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• Harvest
  ...in a fortnight of the autumnal equinox (21 of September). However, as more people gradually moved from [[working]] the land to living in towns (especially th ...urnal/v204/n4963/abs/2041088b0.html Alpha-Amylase Activity of Varieties of English Wheat]
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• English
  [[Image:English.jpg|right|frame]] ...he most profound outside influences on the development of PDE (present day english) are the [[Viking]] conquests and settlements--resulting in the establishme
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• Homily
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''omelie'', from Anglo-French, from Late Latin ''homilia'', from Late Gree ...rvice for the Lutheran Church) at the end of the Liturgy of the Word. Many people consider it synonymous with a [[sermon]].
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• Gourmet
  ...assistant, probably ultimately from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Middle English] ''grom'' groom ...m and its associated [[practices]] are usually used positively to describe people of refined taste and [[passion]].
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• Ancestry
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ancestre, from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] antecessor predecessor, from a ...exts]] display less veneration of elders. In other cultural contexts, some people seek [[providence]] from their deceased ancestors; this [[practice]] is som
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• Dialectic
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] dialetik, from Anglo-French dialetiqe, from [[Latin]] dialectica, from [[G ...s]. The dialectical method is [[dialogue]] between [[two]], or among more, people holding [[different]] [[points of view]] about a subject, who wish to [[est
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• Leisure
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] leiser, from Anglo-French leisir, from leisir to be permitted, from [[Lat ...inction between leisure and compulsory activities is loosely applied, i.e. people sometimes do [[work]]-oriented tasks for [[pleasure]] as well as for long-t
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• 2007-04-01-Depression
  ...it up in the dictionary. The first thing you realize is that the wondrous English language, once again, has applied several meanings to one word, which in ot ...yourselves up in this way to apply a variety of meanings to just one word. English has been described as the shorthand language, but it also can be quite conf
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• Complaint
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] compleynen, from Anglo-French compleindre, from Vulgar Latin *complangere, ...g [[criminal]] [[sanction]]s, such as the State (also sometimes called the People) or Crown (in Commonwealth realms). In the United States, the complaint is
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• Psychotherapy
  According to the [[Oxford English Dictionary]], psychotherapy first meant "hypnotherapy" instead of "psychoth
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• Cooperation
  ...ce multicellular [[organisms]]. Organisms form food chains and ecosystems. People form families, gangs, cities and nations. [[Neurons]] create [[thought]] an Many people resort to this because, they may cooperate by trading with each other or by
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• Ugliness
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Old Norse uggligr, from uggr fear; akin to Old Norse ugga to [[fear] For some people, ugliness is a central aspect of their [[persona]]. [https://en.wikipedia.o
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• Methodology
  ...than outline the researchers’ methods (as in, “We conducted a survey of 50 people over a two-week period and subjected the results to statistical [[analysis] *Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language, Second Edition, Unabridged, W.A. Neilson, T.A. *Knott, P.W. Carha
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• Lecture
  ...he noun "lectern" refers to the reading desk used by lecturers. In British English and several other [[languages]] the noun "lecture" must grammatically be th ...an [[oral]] presentation [[intended]] to present [[information]] or teach people about a particular subject, for example by a [[university]] or college [[te
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• Curfew
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French ''coverfeu'', [[signal]] given to bank the [[hearth]] f ...he time of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws Jim Crow laws], or people younger than a certain age (usually within a few years either side of 18) i
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• Leprosy
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] lepruse, from leprous ...]] transmitted nor highly infectious after treatment. Approximately 95% of people are [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_immunity naturally immune] and s
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• Treasure
  ...hat his narrative was quite unrealistic — it described a tribe of headless people, for example — his reputation commanded such respect that other cartograp
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• Declaration of Independence
  ...onize the Revolution. But as descendants of the revolutionaries and their English ancestors, they felt the need for a document that stated those values in a ...popular mind. By accepting the Gettysburg Address, its concept of a single people dedicated to a proposition, we have been changed. Because of it, we live in
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• Riot
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French riote rash [[action]], [[noise]], disorder ...nd [[intense]] rash of [[violence]] against [[authority]], [[property]] or people. While [[individuals]] may attempt to lead or [[control]] a riot, riots are
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• Bonding
  The term comes from the 12th century, Middle English word ''band'', which refers to something that binds, ties, or restrains. In ...but can also [[develop]] among groups such as sporting teams and whenever people spend [[time]] [[together]]. Bonding is a [[mutual]], interactive [[process
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• Idiom
  *1a : the [[language]] peculiar to a people or to a district, [[community]], or class : [[dialect]] .... There are estimated to be at least 25,000 idiomatic expressions in the [[English]] language.
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• Arbritrary
  ...on]]'s fitness to purchase gasoline, it was still an arbitrary division of people. Similarly, schoolchildren are often organized by their surname in alphabet ...red not to segregate people. If people are lined up by their surnames, the people's positions' will not be affected by their race, age or sexual orientation.
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• Park
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from Medieval Latin parricus, from pre-L *parra pole, ...val] times. They had walls or thick hedges around them to keep game in and people out.
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• Jewel
  ...ed /ˈdʒu - əlri/ or /ˈdʒu - ələri/) or jewelry (see American and British [[English]] spelling [[differences]]) is an item of [[personal]] adornment, such as a ...e for wealthy people or as indications of [[social status]]. In some cases people were buried with their jewellery.
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• Orthodox
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] orthodoxe, from Middle French or Late Latin; Middle French orthodoxe, from ...wiki/Heterodoxy heterodoxy] ("other teaching"), [[heresy]] and [[schism]]. People who deviate from orthodoxy by professing a [[doctrine]] considered to be fa
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• Etty Hillesum
  ...scribe both her religious [[awakening]] and the [[persecutions]] of Jewish people in Amsterdam during the German occupation. In 1943 she was deported and kil ...h Council, voluntarily transferring to a department of "Social Welfare for People in Transit" at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westerbork_transit_camp Weste
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• 2019-10-17-Improved Receptivity Circuit
  ...ransmission belt between Us and you, so we can guide the maximum number of people who are aware of our presence and have a real desire to be of service to Ch ...nfident that now, this improved receptivity circuit can reach thousands of people on Urantia, because the more you will receive our communications during the
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• Bonfire
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''bonefire'' a [[fire]] of bones, from ''bon'' bone + ''fire'' ...es of the slaughtered livestock they had stored for the [[winter]] months. People and their livestock would often walk between two bonfires as a cleansing [[
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• Pulpit
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from Late Latin pulpitum, from [[Latin]], staging, pla ...rn primarily [[functions]] as a reading stand. It is typically used by lay people to read the [[scripture]] lessons (except for the Gospel lesson), to [[lead
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• Worldview
  ...ative exchanges. Worldview remains a [[confused]] and confusing concept in English, used very differently by linguists and [[sociologists]]. It is for this re ...Edward Sapir] gives a very subtle account of this relationship in English. English linguists tend to persist in attaching [[discussion]] of worldviews to the
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• Sarcasm
  ...flesh; probably akin to Avestan thwarəs- to cut. It is first recorded in [[English]] in 1579, in an annotation to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shepheard ...asm, he said, was "usually the last refuge of [[modest]] and chaste-souled people when the [[privacy]] of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded." [h
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• 2011-03-01-Questions to Ponder
  ...ople. Well, my friends, they may tell you they support the lower orders of people, but more often than not it is their aim to make themselves and their famil ...you are of shall we say “Western” societies and predominantly those of the English speaking ones, then you need look no further than the Government and the Op
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• Mental Disability
  ...r intellectually challenged is now preferred by most [[advocates]] in most English-speaking countries. Clinically, however, mental retardation is a subtype of ...utrition or lead poisoning. The so-called "typical appearance" ascribed to people with mental retardation is only present in a [[minority]] of cases, all of
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• Siblings
  ...d by factors such as parental treatment, birth order, [[personality]], and people and experiences outside the family. [1] ...nheritance law) half siblings were often accorded unequal treatment. Old [[English]] [[common law]] at one time incorporated inequalities into the laws of int
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• Visionary
  ...o the supernatural. At times this involves seeing into the future. Certain people are capable of going into the visionary state via meditation, drugs, lucid ...ome of the pioneers of [[personal computing]] such as [[Steve Jobs]]. Some people use [[mathematics]] to make visionary discoveries in the nature of the [[un
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• 2011-03-23-Terminology and Rank
  ...in the sense that it has not penetrated down to the vast mass of ordinary people, and I questioned at the time whether it would. I’m not going to dwell on ...without pips, with a sweet citrus taste, you’ll call it a Navel Orange in English, something different in many other of our languages on Earth, as well as wh
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• Asceticism
  ...translators use "inner-worldly", but that has a different connotation in [[English]] and is probably not what Weber had in mind). ...es, as well as [[hermits]] who live alone). "Worldly" asceticism refers to people who live ascetic lives but don't withdraw from the world, much like Vincent
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• Betrayal
  Middle [[English]], from be- + trayen to betray, from Anglo-French trahir, from Latin trader In [[practice]], however, it is likely that most people with symptoms of psychological trauma have elements of both fear based PTSD
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• Music
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''musik'', from Anglo-French ''musike'', from [[Latin]] ''musica'', from [ To many people in many cultures, music is an important part of their way of life. [https:/
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• Crossroads
  ...en used [[metaphor]]ically, as an abstraction of places or occasions where people meet. In British [[English]] it is specifically defined as being where two roads cross each other (the
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• Role
  A '''role''' (from the French ''rôle'', and sometimes so spelt in [[English]]) or social role is a set of connected [[behaviours]], rights and [[obliga ...roles devoted to [[education]] and [[knowledge]]. This does not mean that people must choose only one [[path]], multiple roles can be taken on by each indiv
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• Tremors
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''tremour'', from Anglo-French ''tremor'', from [[Latin]], from ''tremere' ...ad, vocal folds, trunk, and legs. Most tremors occur in the hands. In some people, tremor is a [[symptom]] of another [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurolog
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• Label
  ...index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French ''labelle'' ...een concerned about the [[subjectivity]] of psychiatric [[diagnosis]], and people being arbitrarily “slapped with a psychiatric label”. Caplan says becau
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• 1993-07-11-Loyalty & Trust
  ...he many [[activities]] of the members and the movement in and out of other people. JAREL: The spelling of my [[name]] in your [[English]] language can be either Jarel or JarEl. Is that O K ?
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• Drowning
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ''drounen'' ...ds and other persons [[trained]] in rescue learn to [[recognize]] drowning people by watching for these [[instinctive]] movements.
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• Means and Ends
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], the early sense of being '[[intermediary]]'. ...it is immoral to use another person merely as a means to an end, and that people must, under all circumstances, be treated as ends in themselves. This is in
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• Pantheism
  French panthéisme, from panthéiste pantheist, from [[English]] pantheist, from pan- + [[Greek]] theos [[god]] Many people think that pantheism is tantamount to [[atheism]], because they believe tha
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• 2010-06-07-There is a Way Forward
  ...ick at, but I am not going to. Sometimes concepts are hard enough for some people to understand, without me using the terminology of the Spiritual Headquarte ...d for what I write here. In fact it’s quite fun to write in plain everyday English which is so much easier for you to understand.
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• Fear
  ...[[death]], rejection, people, snakes, success, and driving.[4] In general, people appear to be most afraid of two things: the threat of pain or death, and th
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• Incentive
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] < LL incentīvus provocative, L: setting the [[tune]], equiv. to incent ( ...choice]] to the alternatives. It is an [[expectation]] that [[encourages]] people to behave in a certain way. Since [[human being]]s are [[purpose]]ful [[cre
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• Equality
  ...a social philosophy advocating the removal of economic inequalities among people. ...ll resides in the hands of a ruling class, rather than in the hands of the people.
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• Intent
  ...has entered the language as a pejorative for one who does so; the [[Oxford English Dictionary]] defines ''Pharisee'' with one of the meanings as ''A person of
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• Ancient
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ancien, from Anglo-French, from Vulgar [[Latin]] anteanus, from Latin ante ...of the [[information]] obtained from these records must be considered. Few people were capable of [[writing]] histories, as [[literacy]] was not widespread i
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• Design
  The [[person]] designing is called a designer, which is also a term used for people who work professionally in one of the various design areas, usually also sp # See dictionary meanings in the Cambridge Dictionary of American English, at Dictionary.com (esp. meanings 1-5 and 7-8) and at AskOxford (esp. verbs
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• Mercy
  '''Mercy''' (Middle [[English]], from Anglo-French ''merci'', from Medieval [[Latin]] ''merced-'', ''merc ...o related to concepts of [[justice]] and [[morality]] in behaviour between people.
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• Method
  ...than outline the researchers’ methods (as in, “We conducted a survey of 50 people over a two-week period and subjected the results to statistical analysis” *Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language, Second Edition, Unabridged, W.A. Neilson, T.A. Knott, P.W. Carhar
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• Gender
  ...r roles are socially constructed, and lack a clear biological explanation. People whose gender identity feels incongruent with their physical bodies may call ===The word ''gender'' in English===
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• 2002-05-17-Faith, Trust, & Expectations
  ...be. Hence, we sometimes use words which mean different things to different people. With that in [[mind]], it is always wise to ask for [[clarification]]. We ...ferent]]. This is one of the [[difficulties]] of using languages such as [[English]]. We would, of course, prefer our [[morontial]] tongue which we feel could
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• Animism
  ...t [[animal]] life is produced by an immaterial [[soul]]". The [[actual]] [[English]] language form of animism however can only be attested to 1819. The term w ...ntemplated the [[possibility]] that [[souls]] exist in animals, plants and people, however the currently accepted definition of animism was only developed in
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• Defeat
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] deffeten, from Anglo-French defait, past participle of defaire, desfaire t ...shly, because this inhibits a [[creative]] [[process]], and risks teaching people not to [[communicate]] important failures with others (e.g. Null results).
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• Résumé
  ...iki/Curriculum_vitae curriculum vitae] (CV) in many countries, although in English Canada, the [[United States]] and Australia a résumé is substantially sho ...umés or CVs used by [[medical]] [[professionals]], professors, artists and people in other specialized fields may be comparatively longer. For example, an ar
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• Tour
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French tur, tourn turning, [[circuit]], [[journey]] ...ral months or even years, are seen by hundreds of thousands or millions of people, and bring in millions of dollars (or the equivalent) in ticket [[revenues]
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• 1999-02-25-Motivating Motivators
  .../en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States United States of America] or to the [[English]] speaking worlds, but it takes a strong [[commitment]] to this type of thi ...countries] where they don't speak English, so I had to teach the . ....’s English so they could read [[the Book]]!" and I think that after that he decided th
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• Philanthropy
  ...n]] that there is ever a single, knowable public [[good]], and in any case people rarely if ever agree on what that might be; rather, this definition merely
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• Hebrew Bible
  ...re "confessional" in that they also express distinct stances towards those people. The expression ''confessional term'' is normally, but not exclusively, use ...n Greek ''hē palaia diathēkē'' ( Παλαιὰ Διαθήκη, ''palaios'' gives several English prefixes like ''[[palaeography]]''). There is additional, confessional impl
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• Apprentice
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] aprentis, from Anglo-French apprentiz, from aprendre to [[learn]], from [[ ...and town [[governments]]. A master craftsman was entitled to employ young people as an inexpensive form of labor in exchange for providing [[food]], lodging
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• Revenge
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French revenger, revengier, from re- + venger to avenge ...[[motivates]] vengeful [[behavior]] as a means of impression management: "People who are more vengeful tend to be those who are [[motivated]] by [[power]],
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• 2012-12-16-Sun of Pure Love Will Shine
  ...nd righteousness is that the people of the great America threw the yoke of English rule; we said with one voice back then “NO MORE”, no more will we be st ...reates and dictates many policies that do not have in mind the good of the people, but the personal and egoistic goals of a few. Know that the fact that man
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• Social
  ...tions or behaviours which take the interests, intentions or needs of other people into account (in contrast to [[anti-social]] behaviour); * common characteristics of people or descriptions of collectivities ([[social fact]]s);
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• Opinion
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] opinion-, opinio, from opinari ...n]] of [[facts]]. An opinion may be supported by an [[argument]], although people may draw opposing opinions from the same set of [[facts]]. Opinions rarely
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• 1999-02-14-Mission Challenges
  ...eaching Mission]] is to uplift the [[hearts]] and [[minds]] of the earth's people. Learning and [[understanding]] is our [[focus]]. Without experience, there ABRAHAM: One moment. In the [[English]] language, the best pronunciation... your name is Branson. Yes, Branson. A
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• Parody
  ...nter-song, an [[imitation]] that is set against the original. The [[Oxford English Dictionary]], for example, defines parody as imitation "turned as to produc .../en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyr satyr] plays which parodied [[tragic]] plays. People that were in the plays dressed up like satyrs which were followers of most
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• Spittle
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] spitel, spittel, etc., = Middle Low German spittel, spettel, Middle High G ...ween [[body]] fluids and [[feelings]]: anger makes one's [[blood]] "boil"; people spit from [[contempt]] or "spit out" [[words]] in [[hatred]]; and our mouth
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• Intellectual
  ...'', in the singular, is rarely found in [[English language|English]] - the English term is litterateur (from the [[French language|French]] ''littérateur''). ===Nineteenth-century English usage===
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• Dialogue
  ...accessing the [[intelligence]] and coordinated [[power]] of [[groups]] of people.[https://trinitize.blogspot.com/2007/07/dialogue.html] ...e ''flowing-through meaning'')) do not necessarily convey the way in which people have come to use the word, with some confusion between the prefix διά-(d
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• India
  .../en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Delhi New Delhi]; official languages, Hindi and English (14 other languages are recognized as official in certain regions; of these ...st country by area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous [[democracy]] in the world. Bounded by the [https://
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• 2008-09-18-Religion and Spirituality, Progress and Churches
  ...often, one could suggest that the religion of so many Portuguese-speaking people has done itself somewhat of a disservice, and this is the appropriate time ...to translate into Portuguese the messages that at this point go out on our English, French and Spanish lists, and these volunteers will contact you to make th
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• Convention
  ::(b) In [[Law]], A [[body]] constituted by statute to represent the people in their primary relations, and in some sense outside of the [[constitution ...om Sept. 21, 1792, to Oct. 26, 1795; (b) the name of an assembly of the English Chartists in 1833.
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• Darkness
  ...ess can have a strong [[psychological]] impact. It can cause depression in people with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_affective_disorder seasonal af ...e]]. (A Midsummer Night’s Dream: I, i)[7] Chaucer, a 14th century Middle [[English]] writer, wrote that knights must cast away the “workes of darkness.”[8
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• Classics
  ...similar way, so is the [[English words of Greek origin|Greek influence on English]]. ...vailable often leave a huge vacuum of information about certain classes of people. Thus, classicists are now working to fill in these gaps as much as possibl
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• Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  ...ssors at colleges and [[universities]] around the world, most notably from English-speaking countries. ...entries are fixed with revision – as one might expect when well-qualified people are recruited to write entries. This is a common pattern for scholarly jour
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• Transportation
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French or [[Latin]]; Anglo-French transporter, from Latin tran '''Transportation''' is the movement of people and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, rai
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• Principal
  ...Head of the Upper School" or "Head of the Middle School" to identify those people who are in charge of a particular division of the [[school]], but who are u ...strator]] of an elementary school, middle school, or high school in some [[English]]-speaking countries, including the United States, India and Australia. Pub
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• Pseudo-science
  ...scientific", from the Oxford American Dictionary, published by the Oxford English Dictionary. ...o rejection or confirmation" (Shermer 1997, p. 17). Shermer M. (1997). Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of
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• Genocide
  ...nal Court] came into existence in 2002 and it has the [[authority]] to try people from the states that have signed the treaty, but to date it has not tried a .... This causes hateride against hitler. He tried his hardest to do what the people wanted, but then he got in trouble.
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• The Hague
  ...bombs fell on a heavily populated and historic part of the city. Over 500 people died and the scars in the city can still be seen today. ...Hague's other beach resort. It is a lot smaller and attracts mainly local people.
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• Treadmill
  Treadmills for modern [[punishment]] were [[invented]] by In 1818 by an English engineer named [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cubitt Sir William Cu ...d grain. In later times treadmills were used as [[punishment]] devices for people sentenced to hard labour in [[prisons]]. The terms treadmill and treadwheel
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• Benediction
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] benediccioun, from Late Latin benediction-, benedictio, from benedicere to ...position of the eucharistic Host in the monstrance and the blessing of the people with it
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• Spacetime
  ...ns of space and time could be switched could have been raised by the first people to have formalized [[physics]], but ultimately, the contradictions between ...viewpoint of spacetime being important in general relativity too. (For an English translation of Minkowski's article, see Lorentz et al. 1952.) The 1926 thir
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• Suspension
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] suspensyon, from Anglo-French suspension, from Late Latin suspension-, su '''Suspension''' is a [[form]] of [[punishment]] that people receive for violating rules and regulations.
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• 2010-08-16-Stasis Conversation Continued
  I can now visualise Starfleet Craft here and around the world rescuing people after a brief introduction, and mass evacuations. All this is possible and Similarly if there are major events which become frightening for ordinary people worldwide, then I have no doubt in that state of mind, they will be only to
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• 2002-09-15-Joy
  ...Good afternoon. Welcome.) I am not sure my name is pronounceable in your [[English]]—no matter. I would like to begin with a question. Is there someone who ...day, that they can barely force themselves to arise. You have known these people; we will not dwell on those. Had they but the sunshine [or Son shine,] the
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• Integrity
  People "have integrity" to the extent that other people judge whether they behave according to the values, beliefs and principles t ...ystem becomes demonstrably at odds with another and the person or group of people holding those values fails to account for the discrepancy.
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• 2010-07-13-Occupations and Diversions
  ...order, regarding certain aspects of our society, and how to get through to people like me who are ordinary. ...d of aspects of the local culture because that helps target lessons to the people concerned. Now, I take it we are speaking of England as a country, as disti
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• Slum
  ...ron. s'lum ae) [[meaning]] "it is a bleak or [[destitute]] place." An 1812 English dictionary defined slum to mean "a room". By the 1920s it had become a comm ...y in urban populations, the number of slum dwellers is rising. One billion people worldwide live in slums and the figure is projected to grow to 2 billion by
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• Stereotype
  ...or a stereotype. The first [[reference]] to "stereotype", in its modern, [[English]] use was in 1850, in the noun, [[meaning]] "image perpetuated without chan ...ral type could be defined as a broad stereotype typically known among many people and usually widely accepted, whereas the sub-group would be one of the seve
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• Love
  ...anguages use multiple words to express some of the different concepts that English relies mainly on "love" to encapsulate; one example is the plurality of Gre ...and kind. It is not paranoid. It does not [[imagine]] [[evil]] about other people but always expects the best, and as Paul so beautifully stated, love never
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• Debate
  In a [[formal]] debating contest, there are rules for people to discuss and decide on differences, within a framework defining how they ...ompeting at the local, national, and international level. It is popular in English-speaking universities and high schools around the world, most notably in So
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• Court
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French curt, court, from [[Latin]] cohort-, cohors enclosure, ...b "to court", [[meaning]] to win favor, derives from the same source since people traveled to the sovereign's court to win his favor.
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• Forgiveness
  ...mistake, and ceasing to demand punishment or restitution.[1] The [[Oxford English Dictionary]] defines forgiveness as 'to grant free pardon and to give up al ...give another person even after a long time had passed. Specifically, these people were more likely to still avoid their transgressor and want to enact reveng
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• 1992-07-08-English As World Language, Admin. Center For TM
  ===Topic: ''English As World Language''=== ...[[teachers]] had come to them. Well is it possible for teachers to come to people on [[Urantia]] that are not part of your [[mission]], to other [[groups]],
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• Society
  ...as a [[Western society]]. Society can also refer to an organized group of people associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, politi The English word "society" emerged in the [[15th century]] and is derived from the Fren
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• 2016-06-10-Like a Tiny Flint
  George: “Your [[English]] is so much better now . . . unless it’s mine that has improved.” ...s me ‘way down on the ground,’ but I can converse with thousands of TAs of people who will be notable [[decision]] makers in times to come — when the chips
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• Hippie
  ...heidlower Jesse Sheidlower], the principal American editor of the [[Oxford English Dictionary]], argues that the terms ''hipster'' and ''hippie'' derive from ...Rexroth] used both the terms ''hipster'' and ''hippies'' to refer to young people participating in black American or [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatnik B
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• Ark
  ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] ærc, from [[Latin]] ''arca'' ‘chest.’ akin to Latin ''arcēre'' to ho ...ly 2,000 cubits (approximately 800 meters or 2,600 feet) in advance of the people when on the march or before the Israelite army, the host of fighting men.[8
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• Rodeo
  The term rodeo was first used in [[English]] in approximately 1834 to refer to a cattle round-up. Today the word is us *1: an [[event]] in which people [[compete]] at riding horses and bulls, catching [[animals]] with ropes, et
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• Parable
  ...on in life, parables frequently use [[metaphor]]ical language which allows people to more easily discuss difficult or complex ideas. In [[Plato]]'s ''[[Repub ...ally features hidden meanings. As H.W. Fowler puts it in his book ''Modern English Usage'', the object of both parable and allegory "is to enlighten the heare
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• 2011-02-10-Father Wants to be Known to All
  *Translated into English by Michel Ardoullie. It is important, imperative, that this is known by as many people as possible.
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• 2011-08-28-Grid Cleansing, Paper 2
  * English Translation from the original French to move them to their path of ascension and evolution. Several people were able to ask questions
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• Fidelity
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] fidelite, from Middle French & [[Latin]]; Middle French fidelité, from La ...of exclusivity or monogamy, and an [[absence]] of adultery. However, some people do not equate fidelity in personal relationships with sexual or [[emotional
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• 2018-01-25-Meeting and Responding to Censorship
  ...t: Yes, I have a question, Michael. I don’t have a problem accepting other people’s opinions, no matter how antithetical they may be to my own. But when on ...ur modern media tends toward polarization. In your politics where half the people don’t bother to vote, those that do--different political parties’ so-ca
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• Superstition
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] supersticion, from Anglo-French, from [[Latin]] superstition-, superstitio ...ons originated as religious [[practices]] that continued to be observed by people who no longer adhere to the [[religion]] that gave birth to the [[practice]
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• 2010-12-04-Capitalism and Communism
  ...passes for news? It is a Collection of Superannuated Shoemakers; which is English slang for “A load of old cobblers!” (I pinched this from Vince, as he f ...atorships the ordinary people are expendable cannon fodder, and so are the people who live in so-called democracies, where the manipulations go on behind the
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• Motive
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English]: from Old French ''motif'' (adjective used as a noun), from late Latin ''m ...t professor Victor Vroom's "expectancy theory" provides an account of when people will decide whether to exert self control to pursue a particular goal.
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• Hypocrisy
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] ypocrisie, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin hypocrisis, from [[Greek]] h ...ls of [[social]] [[exchange]], it may also corrode the well-being of those people who continually make or are forced to make use of it.[2] As Boris Pasternak
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• Genius
  ...rench government in the course of its normal processes on large numbers of people passing through the courts and the military. His initial work in criminolog ...niuses for those born to be kings of men and "idiots and imbeciles", two [[English]] pejoratives, for those at the other extreme of the "normal scheme."[8] Da
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• 2006-04-27-Uversa Broadcast, Gift of Vibrations
  ...nutes sung. This was immediately followed by the following message sung in English. Some of the unrecognized language was interspersed in small phrases, as in ...owl’s tone was sustained during the following message, which was spoken in English.]
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• Crossing the Rubicon
  ...point of no return is the point beyond which someone, or some [[group]] of people, must continue on their current course of [[action]], either because turnin ...ts as the "Radius of Action formula"—originated, according to the [[Oxford English Dictionary]], as a technical term in air navigation to refer to the point o
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• 2010-10-18-Clerk of the Works
  I work with a number of people in your dimension, and nearly all of them could be given the term “Scribe Yes, that is the modern perception of a clerk, but in the English Establishment structure there are these ancient and important roles where a
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• Proscription
  ...or [[exile]] without [[legal]] [[process]] (1418), measures taken against people in a time of civil disturbance, especially banishment (1525), banning (of a ...[condemnation]] of enemies of the [[state]]. It is defined by the [[Oxford English Dictionary]] as a "[[decree]] of condemnation to [[death]] or banishment"
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• 2007-05-21-Abraham & Mary
  ...adults. Those caring adults who tried to give me kind words, I saw them as people who were trying to get me to conform. To me that meant I was not as good ju It was knowing people like Jeremiah that helped me to find myself, to figure out my place in the
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• Cancer
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from [[Latin]] (genitive ''Cancri''), literally, crab; akin to [[Greek]] ...s occur more commonly in developed countries. Rates are increasing as more people live to an old age and as lifestyle changes occur in the developing world.
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• Commodities
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English] commoditee, from Anglo-French commoditee, from [[Latin]] commoditat-, comm ...hese [[equations]], such as systemic socioeconomic unfairness (as [[poor]] people point out, "sure, it's easy to buy the expensive food when you've got plent
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• Intimidation
  ...may be employed [[consciously]] or [[unconscious]]ly, and a percentage of people who employ it consciously may do so as the result of [[selfishly]] [[ration There is no [[legal]] [[definition]] in English law as to what behaviour constitutes "Intimidation", so it is up to the [[c
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• 2007-06-11-Stillness Issues, Brotherhood Of Man
  Stella: Are there any people walking on this earth today who have no souls? JarEl: TR, George. Yes there are. There have been many people who have diminished their soul capacity; many who have crumbled their core
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• Inertia
  In common usage, however, people may also use the term "inertia" to refer to an object's "amount of [[resist # Isaac Newton, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy translated into English by Andrew Motte, First American Edition, New York, 1846, page 72.
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• Continuum
  ...ers or illnesses, whilst continuum or dimensional models propose that some people are more extreme than others on particular dimensions. ...neffable ''Mysterium Magnum'' of the "Great Continuum" that is rendered in English as "Mindstream": the nondual resolution of ''ātman'' and ''anātman''.
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• United States
  ...lly ("American [[values]]", "U.S. forces"). "American" is rarely used in [[English]] to refer to subjects not connected with the United States. In non-English languages, the name is frequently translated as the translation of either t
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• Deity
  The English word "god" comes from Anglo-Saxon, and similar words are found in many Germ Often people feel an obligation to their deity, although some view their deity as someth
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• 2000-09-01-Faith and Acceptance
  ...can not get a ride to the [[meeting]]. This woman also is just learning [[English]].) Yes, little one. We hear your [[gratitude]] and that so delights our [[ ...l to know because my image is that the teaching mission is centered in the English speaking world."
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• Names
  ...istotle]] as "le Stagirite" from one spelling of his place of birth, and [[English]] speakers often refer to [[Shakespeare]] as "The Bard", recognizing him as The word "name" comes from Old [[English]] (OE) nama; akin to Old High German (OHG) namo, Latin nomen, and Greek ὄ
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• Richard Maurice Bucke
  ...Man's Moral Nature'', published in 1879. In 1882 Bucke was elected to the English Literature Section of the Royal Society of Canada. Though well read in French and German, as well as English, and though much influenced by the writings of Whitman, Bucke disclosed tha
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• 2014-10-23-Cataclysms of the Soul
  ...here is another event, perhaps a viral disease that is contagious and some people are succumbing to that virus. This is just another proof for you that the So in plain English what is taking place in you when these things start to happen within you?
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• 2018-12-21-More On Urantia's Magisterial Mission
  ...(one language) also is promising since the best candidate for that, the [[English]] tongue, is not linked to just one [[nation]] as happened to global langua ...e directions of [[Michael]], the diverse and even adverse [[reactions]] of people, [[institutions]] and religionists are not unexpected and certainly will ge
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• 2010-10-28-Stability and Measured Changes
  ...are common with digital mankind and will eventually lead to changes in the English language. ...ck, a roof overhead and a place to sleep, you’re richer than 75 percent of people in this world.
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• 1993-05-09-How To Be Loving
  ...ely]]. And then [[the Father]] gives you more. So you are not dependent on people around you, you are dependent on [[the Father]]. This gives you [[freedom]] ...the way [[the Father]] can change the world is through His people, by His people changing. So [[remember]] you have more [[influence]], more power than you
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• Persona
  ...when interacting with other people. Therefore, personae presented to other people vary according to the social environment the person is engaged in, in parti ...between narrator, protagonist, and persons; a preeminent example in the [[English]] language can be found in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joyce James
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• 2000-08-28-Faith is the Miracle
  ...en she can not get a ride to the meeting. This woman also is just learning English.) ...l to know because my image is that the teaching mission is centered in the English speaking world.”
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• Narrative
  Whatever the form, the [[content]] may concern real-world people and events. This is termed "personal [[experience]] narrative". When the ...[[ideology|ideological]] stances, as well as the author's attitude towards people, events and [[things]]. It is customary to distinguish a first-person fro
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• 2012-07-19-DNA Changes and Justice on Urantia
  ...s being transmitted from there, and is being immediately translated to the English language by your Thought Adjuster." ...inue to have, similar situations happening on Urantia, where very talented people wrong motivations cause suffering to their brethren and damage to the beaut
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• Pagan
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Late Latin ''paganus'', from [[Latin]], civilian, country dweller, f ...his may, in part, have had to do with the closeness to [[nature]] of rural people, who may have been more [[resistant]] to the new [[ideas]] of Christianity
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• Esotericism
  ...only to a narrow circle of "enlightened", "initiated", or highly educated people. [https://www.webster.com/dictionary/esoteric]. Items pertaining to esoteri The term ''esoteric'' first appeared in English in the [[1701]] ''History of Philosophy'' by [[Thomas Stanley (author)|Thom
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• Sanskrit
  ...to put together, compose, arrange, prepare", where ''saṃ-'' "together" (as English ''same'') and ''(s)kar-'' "do, make". ...course]] in ancient India, and contrasted with the languages spoken by the people, ''prākṛta-'' "natural, artless, normal, ordinary". It is also called ''
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• 2012-09-12-Love and Sharing
  ...ife, each expression has its own moment in time. Even between the same two people, or within a group, each time is unique unto itself. So the meaning, the fe We’ve taught that the one English word that stands for Deity--for God’s nature, for the nature of Creative
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• Sublimation
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Medieval Latin ''sublimatus'', past participle of ''sublimare'' ...sublimation was a sign of maturity (indeed, of [[civilization]]), allowing people to [[function]] normally in culturally acceptable ways. He defined sublimat
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• 2009-02-23-Individual Assessments
  ...ve met with her and can give her a few words. From my understanding of the English language, the spiritual name for Emily sounds like Vonna and I would recomm ...omeness of life. Is this kind of what is going on all over the planet with people? It is kind of distressing in a way to see these new realizations and new e
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• World Government
  ...Latin, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Monarchia De Monarchia], which in English translates literally as "On Monarchy". Dante's work was published in 1329, ...er a world [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic republic]. In 1842, the English poet Lord [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Tennyson Alfred Tennyson],
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• History
  ...oks?id=wrACAAAAIAAJ The Century dictionary; an encyclopedic lexicon of the English language]. New York: The Century Co. Page [https://books.google.com/books?i ...y]]. In German, French, and indeed, most languages of the world other than English, this distinction was never made, and the same word is used to mean both "h
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• 2005-08-08-Guests From Senegal, What Is Needed For Light & Life
  ...at the very edge of discovering this and when it finally comes to pass the people of your planet will finally accept one another and [[wonder]] why it took t ...ou solve the real problems that face you and the world? It is too easy for people to lose themselves in their own lives and not know what is going on all aro
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• 2000-11-26-Dedicating Your Personality to Father
  Q: Can you speak [[English]]? Or is your language [[translated]] into English before the lesson? And more about the [[UB|U-Book]] and language. A: Yes, I speak English. Perhaps quite imperfectly, but nonetheless, I [[understand]] that our [[co
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• Racism
  ...typically points out [[taxonomic]] differences between different groups of people, although anyone may be discriminated against on an ethnic or cultural basi ...tended to avoid these [[negative]] [[meanings]]. According to the [[Oxford English Dictionary]], racism is a [[belief]] or [[ideology]] that all members of ea
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• Roman law
  ...debt to Roman law although Roman law exercised much less influence on the English legal system than on the legal systems of the continent. The influence of R ...rther tablets in 449 BC. The new Law of the XII Tables was approved by the people's assembly<ref name=tellegen/>.
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• Beauty
  ...is view of [[symmetry]] and proportion. Modern research also suggests that people whose facial features are symmetric and proportioned according to the [[gol ...ry widely, cross-cultural research has found a variety of commonalities in people's perception of beauty. Large eyes and a clear complexion, for example, are
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• Kowtowing
  ...the standing bow has replaced the kowtow. For example, some, but not all, people would choose to kowtow before the [[grave]] of an [[ancestor]], or while ma ''Kowtow'' came into [[English]] in the early [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19th_century 19th century] to
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• Tao Te Ching
  ...it, especially for words and phrases that have become well-established in English. The pinyin romanization Daodejing originated in the late 20th century, and ...strength", or "integrity." The [[semantics]] of this Chinese word resemble English virtue, which developed from a (now archaic) sense of "inner potency" or "[
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• 2008-07-02-Monjoronson Q & A Session 9
  ...nergy merkaba here to answer questions from the website so that interested people from all over the world can feel that they have a finger on what is happeni ...te unit, that everyone will be on the same page, therefore it is up to the people of nations of Urantia to decide what steps will be taken in terms of previo
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• 2014-08-13-Faith and Its Application to the Mind
  find God, and that is the idea that Paul taught the Romans and the people in the Roman English, and it is, if we have it right, how does one come to believe in God, and h
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• Cognitive Science
  ...], the speed of people thinking with mental images, and the performance of people solving problems using [[analogy|analogies]]. Our conclusions about how the ...al, but “She the hit ball” and “What does you like?” are not. A grammar of English will explain why the former are acceptable but not the latter.
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• Share
  ...haring a product may reduce the product's demand by reducing the number of people who intend to acquire it in order to use it. Though sharing is touted as an *Oxford English Dictionary
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• 2018-01-01-New Era Transition 32
  It is now time to change that around. Very few people on your planet are not aware of the crises that your planet is now sufferin ...We know that there are sun spot cycles, currently declining, at least to people in the northern latitudes it is getting colder, not warmer, and the sun spo
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• 92:6 The Composite Religions
  ...and the religions of [[revelation]]. The [[Hebrews]] were the only western people to follow their early evolutionary gods straight through to the [[God]] of ...great [[universities]] and the larger [[industrial]] communities of the [[English]]-speaking peoples. Not very [[different]] from these [[concepts]] is the i
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• 2015-07-16-Wonder of Equality
  This is what you will carry with you--these other people, these other soul/personalities you have been able to exchange so much with ...in almost all human organizations. In order to get something done, all the people in an organization have to be arranged in such a way that they are not imme
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• Letters I-VII, Mr. Jefferson Returns: American Mentor and Prophet
  ...ower]] of the people. In the next progressive stage, the power of “We The People” will transform in your time into the power of all life on Earth. Soon t When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for all people to separate from the [[cosmology]] which binds them and enter into a new co
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• Self Esteem
  ...ionships, in that people with high self-esteem will be more forgiving than people with low self-esteem.[21] ...nter on the relationships between bullying, [[violence]], and self-esteem. People used to assume that bullies acted violently towards others because they suf
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• Avant-garde
  ...uard" or "vanguard".[1] The adjective form is used in English, to refer to people or works that are [[experiment]]al or innovative, particularly with respect ...s now-customary sense: there, Rodrigues calls on artists to "serve as [the people's] avant-garde," insisting that "the [[power]] of the arts is indeed the mo
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• I AM
  ...''' (|Hebrew: אהיה אשר אהיה, pronounced ''Ehyeh asher ehyeh'') is a common English translation ([[King James Bible]] and others) of the response [[God]] used ;203:[[God]] revealed himself to his people [[Israel]] by making his name known to them. A name expresses a person's [[
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• 1974-06-08-Honolulu: Preparing to Leave
  ...] - [[values]]. The western civilization as embodied in the United States (English-speaking world) is crumbling, and you are going into the middle of the [[ch ...ways [[encouraged]] your [[writing]] and still do. You will reach a lot of people. The timing is good and your day has come -- [[Believe]] it!
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• Other
  ...?title=English#ca._600-1100.09THE_OLD_ENGLISH.2C_OR_ANGLO-SAXON_PERIOD Old English] ōther; akin to Old High German andar other, [[Sanskrit]] antara ...'otherness' is also integral to the [[comprehending]] of a [[person]], as people construct roles for themselves in [[relation]] to an 'other' as part of a [
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• Advent
  Among Hispanic people the last nine days of Advent are known as Posadas ("lodgings"). Children, p ...xample ofPage 1744 | Top of Article the Magi, while in northern Europe and English-speaking countries that custom, continued from pre-Christian year-end festi
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• Personal
  '''person''' (''plural:'' '''[[persons]]''', '''[[people]]''' (by [[suppletion]])) ...skoxford.com/concise_oed/person?view=uk Person], from the ''Compact Oxford English Dictionary''. In modern usage, the term "person" is subject to dispute and
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• 2011-03-04-Conversations with Monjoronson 28
  *The major languages necessary are English and Spanish ...nish. It is necessary to have two sites that closely mirror themselves in English and in Spanish, so that we can move forward rapidly around the world. You
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• 1997-04-06-Work
  ...] relations or even [[creative]] relations. You are all here very creative people and that always make you more [[vulnerable]] to being [[rejected]] in the w ...dless of [[consequences]]. Can doing the Father's will sometimes result in people being hurt [[emotionally]]?
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• 1993-12-12-Noting Your Reactions
  ...eing that [[thoughts]] are very, very important, the things that happen to people would it mostly be because of their [[fear]] that has [[attracted]] the [[e ...eek you told me to get back in touch with you about the [[topic]] for 'One People's Day' do you have anything yet?
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• 2003-03-30-The Sparrow
  ...ned about [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_War the war situation], and people being killed - both of our country and the country in which the [[war]] is ...guy! And at the same time, you know, they chased everybody out. There were people that had just come in on various and sundry flights and they didn't have ti
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• Elohim
  ...sea"), a chaos monster slain by Baal. Each son was allocated to a specific people (e.g. Yahweh to Israel, Milcom to Moab etc.). .... ," Exodus 22:28, "Thou shalt not revile Elohim, or curse a ruler of your people... ," where the parallelism suggests that Elohim may refer to human rulers)
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• Surveillance
  ...he [[behavior]], activities, or other changing [[information]], usually of people and often in a surreptitious [[manner]]. It most usually refers to observat ...le, there are about 4.2 million surveillance cameras—1 camera for every 14 people.[25]
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• 1993-01-10-Your Father Will Take Care Of You
  ...o turn around and give it to others. Sometimes this is [[difficult]], some people are not used to [[receiving]] [[love]]. And yet they need it so badly. Do n ...n you tell people that need.. is there a way to tell people that need from people that want?
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• Regent Street Polytechnic Architectural School
  ...e first institution in the UK to provide post-school education for working people to a multi-faceted modern university. There are plans to celebrate 170 year ...unded. The Polytechnic was subsequently to have a significant influence on English higher education and perhaps an even greater one on sport.[https://www.wmin
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• Mythology
  ...ut some scholars strictly distinguish the terms. The term has been used in English since the 19th century. The newest edition of the OED distinguishes the mea ...atural phenomenon", citing the ''Westminster Review'' of 1830 as the first English attestation. Earlier editions of the OED also present this quote as the ear
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• Contempt
  .../index.php?title=English#ca._1100-1500_.09THE_MIDDLE_ENGLISH_PERIOD Middle English], from Anglo-French, from Latin contemptus, from contemnere ..._Carol A Christmas Carol], who was cold-hearted, hating Christmas and poor people. The [[word]] originated in 1393, from the [[Latin]] word contemptus meanin
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• 2019-12-19-Michael's Christmas Message
  ...is the Urantia Book--this marvelous, two-thousand-page book, originally in English, that has been translated into so many other languages by now. If I could b ...tia Book, and the further marvel with all the hundreds if not thousands of people, and the millions of hours of human activity and dedication that it took to
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• 2000-04-17-Love One Another As He Does
  ...believe your [[gentle]] and [[sincere]] [[manner]] in which you speak with people is your strong point in [[service]]. I do believe however that you do at ti ABRAHAM: The closest sound in which I can say to you using the [[English]] language is Emily, yes, Emily. (Thank you.) You're welcome. Another quest
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• Canon
  ...pletely developed body of international church law. It is analogous to the English system of [[statute]] law. ...when describing bodies of literature or art: those books that all educated people have supposedly read, or are advised to read, make up the "canon", for exam
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• Metaphor
  ...neath a concept), and a ''dormant metaphor'', whose metaphorical character people are aware of but rarely think about (such as "to break the ice"). Others, h ...niversal life experiences can convey a very different meaning to different people, based on their level or type of religious conditioning or otherwise. For e
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• Yahweh
  ...held that the [[original]] name was IaHUe(H), i.e. Jahve(h, or with the [[English]] values of the letters, Yahwe(h, and one or other of these forms is now ge ...ter_.20 Exodus. 20:3]). Yahweh is [[Israel]]'s high god, who delivered his people from [[slavery]] and oppression, and therefore he is entitled to Israel's [
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• 2009-04-27-The Teaching Mission, Swine Flu
  ...he questioner was looking for a way to satisfy the desires to belong among people and I think if they don't have access to a Teaching Mission group physicall ...well; project your consciousness of love presence of Christ Michael to the people before you go. Practice the Presence as you leave your home. Know that the
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• Occult
  ...erm is sometimes popularly taken to mean "knowledge meant only for certain people" or "knowledge that must be kept hidden", but for most practicing occultist ...pposing and malevolent entity. The word has negative connotations for many people, and while certain [[practice]]s considered by some to be "occult" are also
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• Play
  ...fencing, dancing, leaping, etc. Also fig. Now only in HAND-PLAY n. In Old English freq. as the second element in compounds. ::c. Sexual activity or dalliance; foreplay; amorous recreation. In Old [[English]] in hight-play (cf. HIGHT n.3).
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• 2008-06-10-Monjoronson Q & A Session 6
  ...of being, ones thinking, ones relationship to the divine adjuster; to most people this is adequate, tremendously adequate. If the majority of the human race ...ority necessary to bring correction to the people of this world. It is the people of this world who are worth saving therefore you can rest assured all effor
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• Apocalypse
  ...lon, in ancient scripts and long-forgotten [[languages]], and in many ways people revived [[religious]] [[traditions]] and [[practices]] of hoary [[origin]]. ...]]: [[faith]] in [[God]], who is [[personally]] interested in His [[chosen people]], who is adamant against [[evil]], and who will secure His world kingdom.
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• Gilgamesh
  ...a [[demigod]] of superhuman strength who built a great wall to defend his people from external threats. ...lgamesh was buried under the waters of a river at the end of his life. The people of Uruk diverted the flow of the [[Euphrates]] River crossing Uruk for the
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• Curriculum
  ...han as the [[reality]] of whatever course of experience in actuality forms people as they do actually take form. ...xternal body (such as the [[National Curriculum for England]] in [[England|English]] schools). In the [[United States|US]], the basic curriculum is establish
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• Hermeneutics
  ...here Moses interpreted the Jewish Law (known as haEmes - the Truth) to the people.[9] ...use to describe it, we are also confronted with the problem that "whenever people try to establish a certain reading of a text or expression, they allege oth
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• Celt
  ...rish Sea, as well as [[Cornwall]] and [[Brittany]] on either side of the [[English Channel]].[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celt] * James, Simon. ''The Atlantic Celts - Ancient People Or Modern Invention?'' Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, August 1999.
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• Evil
  ...'. The root meaning is of obscure origin though shown to be akin to modern English 'over' and modern German 'über' (OE ''ofer'') and 'up' (OE ''up'', ''upp'' ...than the poor ([[Epistle of James|James]] 2). The only difference between people, in terms of Christian [[salvation]], is that some have made the commitment
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• 2014-04-25-New Era Conversations 20
  ...future, that repercuss historically so that you may feel them now, as some people have already. ...eaking in tongues,” then we anticipate they would also accept “speaking in English,” with the intent and meaning very clear to them.
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• 2011-11-17-More Life
  ...is that has captured your fancy for the moment. Think of all of those good people you know and have known, so much a part of your soul. Think all of that goo ...Does this give you some sense of spiritual reality? With a few thousand people you have a few thousand universes, all somewhat distinct, all somewhat diff
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• 2014-07-03-New Era Conversations 25
  ...lso saying “co-responsibility” for the raising of this common child of two people—it is the responsibility of both of them—it is not separate, as some cu ...d impossible, and magical thinking again. It is the compartmentalizing of people’s minds that holds you back from encompassing the grandeur of the univers
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• Socialization
  ...ham White (1977: 5), reacting to the functionalist notion of socialization English sociologist ...rms, of gender roles and an increasing tolerance of variations in the ways people express their own social values.
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• Power (sociology)
  ...r. In some ways it more closely resembles what everyday [[English language|English]]-speakers call "[[Social influence|influence]]", although some authors (li ...perceived) or potential to bring about significant [[change]], usually in people’s [[personal life|lives]], through the actions of oneself or of others.
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• 2001-09-24-Upsetting Times
  ...undaries]]. Let those boundaries [[dissolve]]. Let yourselves [[love]] all people and to be understanding, if not completely [[sympathetic]], with the poor m ...nt for all people to have a [[voice]] in how they are governed and for all people to be safe from [[war]], and from [[terror]]. This is a high goal, but one
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• Risk
  ...h interaction with Middle Eastern and North African Arab traders. In the [[English]] language the term risk appeared only in the 17th century, and "seems to b ...nding on the purpose of the calculation. Specific [[method]]s include what people are willing to pay to insure against death,[5] and radiological release (e.
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• Imperium
  ...)|power]]''. In [[antiquity]] this concept could apply to the [[population|people]], and mean something like "power status" or [[authority]], or could be use ...nt Rome]], imperium could be used as a term indicating a characteristic of people, the measure of formal power they had. This qualification could be used in
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• Prayer
  ...r have mostly concentrated on its effect on the healing of sick or injured people. The efficacy of petition in prayer for physical [[healing]] to a deity has ...en, prayen,''and ''preien'' around 1290, recorded in ''The early'' ''South-English Legendary'' I. 112/200: ''And preide is fader wel ȝ erne,'' in the sense o
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• Golden rule
  ...he golden rule is that a person attempting to live by this rule treats all people, not just members of his or her in-group, with consideration. The golden ru ...viticus 19:34 universalizes the edict of Leviticus 19:18 from "one of your people" to all of humankind.
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• Reality
  ...y and [[truth]] of the external world. The [[religion]] and [[belief]]s of people or communities are a fine example of this level of socially constructed 're ...me Galileo was ridiculed for that factual proposition, because far too few people had a consensus about it in order to accept it as a truth. Fewer propositio
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• Satan
  '''Satan''' (Standard Hebrew '''Satan'el''', [[English]] ''accuser'') is a term that originates from the [[Abraham]]ic religions, ...an is described as the adversary of the high priest [[Joshua]], and of the people of God whose representative the hierarch is; and he there opposes the 'ange
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• 2024-01-08-Machiventa Mission Urantia 2
  ...e our mission statement and our vision nailed to the mast, so to speak, so people know what we stand for, but then we want to allow them to relate to us. And ...are rooted in perhaps one particular wisdom tradition does not give these people any particular preference or ownership over this revelation and certainly n
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• Timothy Wyllie
  ...n angels, he led workshops and lectures throughout the 1980s helping other people contact their own [[angel]]s. Out of this emerged [https://books.google.com ...of the Heart is a guided meditation tape he made with Alma Daniel and the English musician, David Duhig.
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• 2012-04-29-Abraham and Mary
  ...overnance means to us as we live in the everyday world. Is only the events people can see important? Does your intention have anything to do with governing t ...happening. Can you say either tangible or specific things that we can as a people experience now from this re-incircuitment? I know that it is spiritual natu
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• Pantheistic
  French panthéisme, from panthéiste pantheist, from [[English]] pantheist, from pan- + [[Greek]] theos god ...tps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grass_roots grass roots] appeal among ordinary people, [[artists]], and [[scientists]]. As the most important [[challenge]] that
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• 2017-03-13-New Era Transition 14
  ...people” includes all God believers, whether they are Christians, Hindus or people of Islam—it will be most helpful when there is a broader audience who wis ...un growing those tendrils in all organizations throughout the world. Many people feel and know and sense that there is something afoot in the world that is
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• 1993-11-12-Ascension Plan
  ...eed to get out there to [[express]] our love of what we know so we can get people in? Can you tell me how you are involved in our expanding and growing and i ...We will [[work]] with you in hopefully kindling the [[curiosity]] of many people who are dissatisfied and in various [[states]] of [[turmoil]] about their [
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• 1996-09-15-TM is Transition Mission
  Elyon: The [[physical]] function in [[balance]] pertains to... - I see many [[English]] words that don't fit well. I will use several in an [[effort]] to [[clari ...e really advanced circle attainers. To [[balance]] what you have said with people like that is that they are dealing with their physical condition given what
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• 2021-10-28-Attitude is Your Greatest Control
  ...ns. We do appreciate--Michael and Mother Spirit-- your use of our everyday English--no stilted, so-called “religious speech,” but speaking to us as you wa ...in how we relate to what life holds for us and others. We think of all the people and other things that--ironically at times--add to our own selves. With thi
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• 1992-06-28-Peace
  ...e with you during our weekly gathering. I am pleased there are so many new people here. I am [[thankful]] for you all. ...through this it will be [[reflected]] in the outer world. As more and more people begin to [[understand]] what true [[peace]] is, that which they know in the
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• 2013-02-08-Conversations with Monjoronson 69
  ...g Time program is that we feel more sure about our capacity to engage more people on your planet, this planet, in the programs that we are developing. I kno ...nting to some of you, as you see yourself as only one out of seven billion people, but it is truly that fact that you make a difference. It is as though you
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• Childhood
  ...e Corporate Construction of Childhood] in 1997 (second edition, 2004) many people who made their living studying, [[teaching]], or caring for children were n *Pinchbeck, Ivy and Margaret Hewitt. Children in English Society. 2 vols. London: Routledge, 1969.
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• 2005-07-07-Patience & The Urantia Book
  ...u can imagine, this will truly inaugurate a new age when a majority of the people living on Urantia do this on a regular basis. You can just imagine the kind Many people have difficulty with the book because they approach it from a certain viewp
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• 2004-01-08-Teaching Mission Archive Project
  ...by which the archives can be accessed simultaneously by many thousands of people. You take great joy in seeing a web site of your friends or your own receiv ...lot of that is from the early TR’s, but there are times when I think that people looking at that material for the first time, might discount what the Teachi
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• 1987-08-27-Space Bodies, Building
  ...ight]] up [[surrounded]] myself with that, and when I [[thought]] of these people, it was as though I had a golden thread going from the gold around me to ea ...ithin the last few weeks with [[politicians]], is it having an effect on [[people]]
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• Analogy
  ...lies behind basic tasks such as the identification of places, objects and people, for example, in face perception. It has been argued that analogy is "the c It is worth noting that while most competent [[English language|English]] speakers will immediately give the right answer to the analogy question (
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• 2003-07-01-Love
  ...d, with meanings which vary according to the [[context]] of its use. The [[English]] language is not as sophisticated as some other languages on [[this planet ...vice]]. This desire to share with other people, this desire to serve other people, and this desire to co-create your [[self]] is all an aspect of [[love]].
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• Philistine
  ...ge|Hebrew]] פלשתים, ''plishtim'') (see "other uses" below) were a [[nation|people]] who inhabited the southern coast of [[Canaan]], their territory being nam The etymology of the word into English is from Old French ''Philistin'', from Late Latin ''Philistinus'', from Lat
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• Derivative
  In English, '''derivative''' primarily refers to anything derived from a [[source]] - Answer: Probably not. The people who hold copyright in Star Wars own the characters as well as the plot, the
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• 2002-11-24-Utilizing The Higher Mind
  ...ists who is not in need of spiritual regeneration, growth, and change. All people require help to accomplish the process of gradual submission to their [[hig ...that if circumstances were changed, if other people were changed, if other people had not taken certain [[actions]] and instead taken different actions, all
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• Languages and Literature
  ...al [[phenomenon]]. Though commonly used as a means of communication among people, human language is only one instance of this phenomenon. This article conc Some languages are meant specifically for communication between people of different nationalities or language groups. Several of these languages h
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• 2010-12-13-It Doesn't Work Like That
  ...that it is not my place to criticise the channelled messages through other people, whether I agree or disagree with them and I will just read them and extrac *** I cannot find the word “mindal” or “mindally” in an English dictionary or in any web based dictionary. Monjoronson means that the indiv
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• Letters VIII-XVI: Life
  ...ous decline to ascend again to planetary leadership on the strength of new people-powered courage, creativity and compassion. ...he courtrooms of justice but the community is the seat of the power of the people directly active in the determination of their rights, freedoms and responsi
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• 2002-01-13-Nebadonia, New World
  ...and thank all [[the teachers]] and all the [[TR]]'s, transcribers and the people who host the meetings in their [[homes]]. I don't think they are told often ...ness toward the [[Correcting Time]], to create [[unity]] among the world's people. Many of you will be councilors and [[guides]] in directing this new world
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• Sociology of religion
  ...ead of discussing religion as a kind of misapprehension (an "opiate of the people,") or as social cohesion, Weber did not attempt to reduce religion to its [ ...ere is undeserved good fortune and suffering in the world. Religion offers people soteriological answers, or answers that provide opportunities for salvation
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• Anger
  ...iately stop the threatening [[behavior]] of an outside [[force]].[3] The [[English]] term originally comes from the term angr of Old Norse language.[4] ...of anger, named "hasty and sudden anger" by Joseph Butler, an 18th century English bishop, is connected to the impulse for self-preservation. It is shared bet
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• 1992-02-01-Ham To General Council
  Sara: Ham, this is Sara. There is [[Anxiety|concern]] in this group from many people about the [[Truth|validity]] of this [[experience]]. There are many here th Ham: Thank you. I have enough trouble with [[English]]. LAUGHTER. Ask the former question to be re-stated.
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• 2015-10-15-Free Will Depends Upon Creativity
  ...stoppable--this whole physical universe you are wrapped up in, and all the people in your life that are relatively independent of you. They too are part of t ...ed, and all of the cultural concepts wrapped up in it itself. We are using English now, and all the causality that is wrapped up in it--what causes what; what
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• 2010-11-26-Urantia Book & Subjectivity
  ...stance, just ink symbols on paper. But the moment you start to read it in English, instantaneously you are responding to it in a way very unique to you. ...e of their backgrounds, seeing two entirely different things. Or take two people, one who knows the schematic of a computer or a piece of electronic equipme
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• 2002-11-03-Illusions
  ...spiritual [[identity]] which when [[embraced]] completes the [[journey]]. People in their lives leave their spiritual [[home]] to [[journey]] in the land of Q: World is full of illusion. People are actively trying to [[engage]] us in these illusions. How do we stay eng
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• Jealousy
  People do not express jealousy through a single emotion or a single [[behavior]].[ ...l]], a partner, and a third party rival. Jealousy typically involves three people. Second, all the definitions describe jealousy as a reaction to feeling thr
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• 2002-07-26-Reviewing Negative Views of Being In The Flesh
  ...t doesn't capture [[negative]] hues in its coloration. It suggests to many people the [[idea]] that the physical [[body]] and the physical world is less desi ...fact that you are [[human]], it is fighting against that impulse that some people feel [[expressed]] in these words, "How come somebody as [[noble]], bright,
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• Archives
  ...users include reporters, genealogists, writers, historians, students, and people wanting [[information]] on the history of their home or region. Many govern ...and Wales. The National Monuments Record [2] is the public [[archive]] of English Heritage. The National Archives of Scotland [3], located in Edinburgh, serv
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• Omniscience
  ...iscience is a published [[fact]]. For example, in the game of chicken: two people each drive a car towards the other. The first to swerve to avoid a collisio # The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) ISBN 0-19-861-263-x - p.1293 "omniscience /ɒmˈnɪsɪəns/"
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• 1983-07-27-First Mansion World Problems
  ...the ideal relationship between two people or three people or any number of people is founded on love for one another in the highest sense whatever the highes ...didn't happen, the planet would end up being non-evolving because it takes people to evolve any planet. That goes all the way to God and the Thought Adjuster
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• 2002-09-23-Faith and Trust
  ...ear]] of lack stems from. One moment. In the closest possible use of the [[English]] language, you are known On High as Marshall. Welcome to the Correcting Ti ...[[reality]]. He could have easily gone toward [[mysticism]] to please the people of that day and age, but He always waited upon the will of His Father, yes.
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• 1997-06-19-Sharing & Stillness
  ...y in our development in this group of believers. That you have found these people rewarding is because they are [[sincere]] in their attempts to find [[the w ...a web or [[wavelength]] of gentle good will, a [[poise]], that will allow people to feel that they can be themselves and be [[trusted]], that they can trust
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• 2013-08-15-Lightline TeaM
  ...ife with mine,” and a name will occur to you. It may be some very familiar English word, or it may be something rather strange to you; but just think on it fo ...ntine has been lifted on your world, this is what is happening to a lot of people all over the world, whether or not they are exactly conscious of it in the
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• 1993-03-14-Love For Your Fellow Man
  .... We have been [[practicing]] this in some of our lessons, showing love to people who are unlovable, or as you [[perceive]] them to be unlovable. But you hav ...]] that you have. You know that if you start [[complaining]] in a group of people, soon the whole group is complaining.
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• Celestial Contact
  ...channeled ascended masters like [[Buddha]], [[Jesus]], or [[St. Germain]]; people who have died; [[angels]]; higher dimensional [[being]]s; and [[extraterres ...rs, mediumship fell into disrepute, although it never ceased being used by people who believed that the dead can be contacted.From the 1930s through the 1990
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• Divine Counselor
  *1. A professional who counsels people, especially on personal problems. The word '''counseling''' or '''counselling''' comes from the ''Middle English counseil, from Old French conseil, from Latin cōnsilium; akin to cōnsuler
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• Messiah
  '''Messiah''' (Hebrew מָשִׁיח Mašíaḥ or Māšîªḥ; in modern Jewish texts in English sometimes spelled ''Moshiach''; Aramaic: '''משיחא''', Aramaic/Syriac: ...fers to a future Kin of [[srael]] from the Davidic line, who will rule the people of united tribes of Israel, and herald the "Messianic Age" of global peace.
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• 2002-05-30-Celestial Names
  But, yes, you too, by your own admission, have had lonely times. Most people have. And look at what the most recent [[lonely]] time has done for you! It ...e German 'von something or another' or 'van who knows what' may be used. [[English]] commonly links 'son' to the name to denote [[parentage]] most commonly Jo
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• 2000-11-26-The Upper Chamber
  N : Thank you. I don’t know if I understood all (N is learning English), but I thank you. ...ion that is not always beneficial for a particular individual, or group of people, to know. Your transmitter has an exceptional compassion, yet she has seen
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• Perception
  In the case of [[vision|visual]] perception, some people can actually see the percept shift in their [[mind's eye]]. Others who are ...ality]], which ultimately corrupts the way humans perceive the truth. When people view something with a preconceived [[idea]] about it, they tend to take tho
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• African Philosophy
  ...w, African philosophy is any philosophy done by Africans (or sometimes, by people of African descent). ...ilosophy. Such a philosophy doesn't depend upon the existence of specific people who philosophise, but even its innate in responding to life.
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• God
  ...s from the 6th century [[Christianity|Christian]] [[Codex Argenteus]]. The English word itself descends from the Proto-Germanic *''ǥuđan''. Most linguists a ...nces that are implied by these different names, "God" remains the common [[English]] translation for all.
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• Gesture
  ...houghts]], from contempt and hostility to approval and [[affection]]. Most people use gestures and [[body language]] in addition to words when they speak. Th ...don, Adam (2000). Gesture in Naples and Gesture in Classical Antiquity. An English translation, with an Introductory Essay and Notes of La mimica degli antich
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• 1987-02-26-Various Aspects of Soul
  ...e tell the class or advise in some way, subjects that could be asked. Some people ask me, what can we ask, in what area, in what [[time]] zone, and I have sa Teacher: Yes. This is of great concern for all. Yes. You see, there are more people as you becoming [[aware]]. Yes. And as the [[numbers]] [[grow]], yes they s
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• Family
  '''Family''' denotes a group of people affiliated by a common ancestry, affinity or co-residence. Although the [[c ...ivision of labor, [[marriage]], and the resulting relationship between two people, is necessary for the formation of an economically productive household.
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• 1992-03-22-Change
  [[The Father]] asks that you do this very thing. And this [[group]] of people, as well as others who are receiving [[teachers]] are but a part of many th ...your fellow men. and the brotherhood of man will become [[united]] as more people become gifts to one another. I will now [[receive]] questions."
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• 1994-04-17-Patience & Opportunity
  STELLA: There are some people that have had [[Near Death Experience|life and death experiences]] and they MARLIES: So does that also mean that people who claim to have had [[Near Death Experience|after death experiences]] is
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• 2008-03-03-Co-Creative Design Team
  ...satisfy all the homework that we will assign to you. This group of 10-12 people would have to meet every day, for 4 hours to fulfill this within the next f ...ucture. You are all of English or Western European descent, you all speak English, you have an understanding of the technology, and the culture and the philo
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• Sharing the Stillness
  and you go in and the idea is that the other people don’t know that much, so you’re the about what that actually meant. First of all, you remember how all your English teachers
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• Chosen People
  ...is article. First, how can belief in the election of a particular group of people be reconciled with belief in a universal God? Second, does the concept of e <center>For lessons on the [[topic]] of '''''Chosen People''''', follow [https://nordan.daynal.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Chose
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• 2008-08-06-Monjoronson Q & A Session 14
  ...along with everyone else, begins to reveal the interconnectedness between people. ...get permission to reword some of the questions for easier understanding in English but did not hear back so we will just do the best we can as we always do. T
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• 1993-06-20-Cooperation & Simplification
  ...ords]]. I think I am probably looking forward to the actual workshop (in [[English]]) more than I can possibly think about. I think my [[anxiety]] is the very ...ering]] if he knows something we don't know. Is it a [[reference]] to some people who have come but haven't come on a regular basis? Do you know what he mean
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• 2017-09-28-God as Your Thought Adjuster
  ...eing, this soulful aspect, is the very nature of that reality. The closest English equivalent of this “morontia” realm—a word we had to introduce--is so ...is is that part of you that is so perfect already--in a way--that for most people living, it is invisible, It is ungraspable. Personality is that part of you
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• 2014-06-05-The Self-Conscious Mind
  ...tion to what is at all, just what you wish it were. The fact that so many people do this allows a pall to hang over all of [[humanity]]. It’s an [[illusio ...will at least realize what it is, and you can manage it. Sometimes, when people come online and speak in a group, TR to a group, they admit to always havin
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• Humanities
  ...record, encompassing everything from images and [[sculpture]]s to letters. People may perceive a difference between "literature" and some popular forms of wr ...wealth. The noun ''law'' derives from the late [[Old English language|Old English]] ''lagu'', meaning something laid down or fixed. see [https://www.etymonli
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• Library Science
  ...ied by people in and outside of libraries as well as cross-culturally, how people are trained and educated for careers in libraries, the [[ethics]] that guid In the English speaking world the term "library science" appeared in the early 1930s, in t
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• Desire
  ...neuroses in their sons. Freud used the Greek myth of Oedipus to argue that people desire incest and must repress that desire. He claimed that children pass t ...ire and seduction are connected to fear and wrath by examining cases where people are worried about issues of impurity, sin, and shame.
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• 2024-04-15-Machiventa Mission Urantia 9
  ...to anybody who wanted to do some transmitting, especially encouraging new people to do it. Mark Rogers volunteered to start things off, and Kona may join us ...our peers. Such things as blogs and conversations provide more insight for people because they are genuine, real human experience, human emotion, human under
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• Theology
  The word ''theology'' comes from late middle English (originally applying only to Christianity) from French ''théologie'', from ...uery=entry%3D%2348216&layout=&loc=qeologiko%2Fs Lidell and Scott's ''Greek-English Lexicon']'.</ref>
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• Constitution
  ...nt]]. Most national constitutions also guarantee certain [[right]]s to the people. Historically, before the evolution of modern-style, codified national cons ...on for the forced cessation of such action, which might be enforced by the people with the support of a decision of the [[judiciary]], in a case of [[judicia
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• 1999-11-15-You Are Made From Earth
  ...e able to control your own activity on the planet in how you relate to the people, the [[life]] and this world in general. Student; JarEl, you spoke of so many people on [[our planet]], and it is ever increasing in [[population]]. I get lette
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• Consensus
  '''Consensus''' is defined in [[English]] as, firstly, general agreement and, secondly, group [[Unity|solidarity]] ...sus decision-making may [[encourage]] [[groupthink]], a situation in which people modify their opinions to [[reflect]] what they believe others want them to
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• Courage
  ...r [[sin]]. It also is a [[symbol]] in some [[culture]]s as a savior of the people who live in a [[community]] with sin and a corrupt church or religious [[bo *[[Oxford English Dictionary]]
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• 2002-02-24-Loyalty and Love
  Sandy : ….and it was not long after that he began coming to my house for English lessons. So he’s been coming to my house every week for the last seven ye ...t there by car. A one room schoolhouse, an elementary school. All of these people, at the gravesite, were reciting some of their early Catholic prayers that
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• Quantity
  ...ses of collective nouns: ''army, fleet, flock, government, company, party, people, chorus, crowd, mess, and number''. Under the names of magnitude come what In human languages, including English, [[grammatical number|number]] is a syntactic category, along with person a
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• Euthanasia
  ...assisted suicide options do not have reduced insurance claims compared to people dying in "natural" way. For example, the Oregon Death with Dignity Act defi English Common Law from the 1300s until the middle of the last century made suicide
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• 1993-11-16-Visualization Exercise
  ...they are getting the [[message]]. They are [[wonderful]], loving, serving people. They are all being of [[service]] to their fellow man. They have a deep se Lucille: But her English teach referred..that she should try easier classes. She hasn't succeeded in
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• 2012-02-25-Circuitry Enhancements
  ...what you see occurring on your physical world is the outworking of this. People are freely expressing some of the negativity that has been perpetuated, gen ...your Mother. The human mind is being purged of many toxic elements. Some people, instead of turning to the presence of Spirit within them, are giving free
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• Communism
  ...regimes outside of Europa survive till now, the most important of them is People's Republic of China, trying to introduce market reforms without rapid democ ...ivil right to vote for all men including the unprivileged. Among the early English social reformers was [[Robert Owen]], the founder of cooperative movement a
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• Urantia Book Etymology & Human Languages
  One might reflect that "God" is an obvious Anglicism, and certainly [[English]] is not the language of currency in [[Paradise]], no more than is [[Latin] ...wiki/Orthography orthographic] elements show, are syllabic manufactures of English-Greco-Roman tincture -- in a word, an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthog
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• 1994-03-01-Half Moon Bay, Part 1
  When I first heard of the Teaching Mission and "people hearing voices in their heads," I was very skeptical. I even scoffed at the ...ome of the same cities, attended the same college where we both majored in English--in short, we have much in common. I met S at a Course in Miracles meeting
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• 2009-04-02-Channels
  ...ess fascination for me. And so, language is a very important factor in how people get along and on your world the problem of semantics makes your work and ou ...he word channel or channeling, nor is there really anything negative about people who perceive themselves to be channeling entities, personalities or beings
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• 2011-03-07-Truth and Renaissance
  ...the deliberately arbitrary exercise of authority and power to terrorize a people into obedience. ...emain hidden. When so much of the true economic and commercial life of the people can be hidden from them, it becomes all the easier to manipulate them.
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• 1995-03-24-Time of Transition
  ...s. Sharing also bonds you as a group and it is through small [[groups]] of people that great [[change]] can come about. When you can change the way you [[per ...s]] in terms of the [[extreme]] ranges of -- I am not very good with the [[English]] language unless I am feeling [[inspired]], and I am not, so I will resort
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