25 May 2019

• Immiseration: Economic impoverishment. 
• Second, the immiseration of other people by an economy based on looting across both space and time. (George Monbiot)

16 May 2019

• Unassailable: Unable to be attacked; questioned or defeated. 
• By taking the interpretive approach and extending the analysis to a business association, we illustrate the ideological role communication plays in the organised construction of a dominant and potentially unassailable approach to the natural environment. (Milne, Tregidga, Walton). 

13 May 2019

• Sublate: Assimilate (a smaller entity) into a larger one. 
• The approach that I suggest is not to abandon the notion of sustainability, but to sublate it based on a critical theory of society. (Christian Fuchs) 

12 May 2019

• Syncretic: Combining different religions, cultures, or ideas. 
• Baba Farid symbolizes the deep rooted syncretic spirit that has existed in the cultural space of Punjab. (Sukoon Singh)
• Despite the pop culture applications, the word itself is said to be have origins in Buddhist philosophy and religious syncretism. (Kevin Taylor) Added 1 June 2019.

11 May 2019

• Achilles' heel: A weakness or vulnerable point
• The main success for CSOs in influencing MNEs is through attacking Corporate's Achilles' heel - the brand Image. (Jenny Ahlstrom). 

10 May 2019

• Expository:Intended to explain or describe some thing. 
• This article offers a critical interpretation of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group's first annual "report to society" and an expository text by Shell expert's consultant, John Elkington, which was incorporated in the report. (Sharom M. Livesey)
• Having presented some expository material about development of the Internet over the last decade and then providing some examples of positive effects and negative effects, she set about formulating a conclusion (explicit rhetorical planning and goal setting). (David Galbraith & Veerle M. Baijeen). (Added 18 May 2019)

6 May 2019

• Retinue: A group of advisers, assistants, or others accompanying an important person. 
• He is an art lover: Mention the Prado Museum in Madrid and he might tell you the secret of finding 5 minutes without crowds to appreciate Diego Velazquez's Las Meninas, his favorite painting, which depicts a Spanish princess encircled by her retinue. (Paul Voosen)
• Au courant: Fully informed; up-to date
• People talk of keeping au courant, and no doubt an intellectual cannot ignore the human race, nor be indifferent what is written in his special field; but take care lest the current carry away with it all your capacity for work and instead of bearing you onwards prevent you from making any headway against it. (A.G. Sertillanges) 

5 May 2019

• Apotheosis: The elevation of someone to divine status. 
• For his apotheosis speaks of a crisis that is at least as deep as the one signified by Donald Trump's unexpected leadership of the free world. (Pankaj Mishra) 
• Egghead: A highly academic or studious person; an intellectual.
• Peterson may seem latest in the long line of eggheads pretentiously but harmlessly romancing the noble savage. (Pankaj Mishra). 
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