10 June 2019

• Reverie: A state of being pleasantly lost in one's thoughts; daydream 
• He was almost in a trance, staring at the fielder on the boundary and had to be yanked out of his reverie by Mark Wood, who hugged him. (Sriram Veera)
• Scourge: A person or thing that causes great trouble or suffering; a cause of wide or great affliction.  
• The role of private sector in tackling scourges such as modern slavery, human trafficking and child labor, will also be important to consider in the context of development. (Richard Welford). 
• Reification: 
• Giving credit to Freud for bringing dreams into the field of “human meanings” after centuries of having been considered the nonsense of consciousness, Foucault nevertheless believes that this reification of the unconscious has neglected something he finds more significant, namely, the relation of meaning and image. 
• Rhapsody: 
•  What Freud missed to see, according to Foucault, is that dream is more than a rhapsody of images―it is a specific form of experience, “an imaginary experience”46

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)

21 April 2019

• Amenable: Open and responsive to suggestions; easily persuaded and controlled. 
• Analyzing interviews and documents, we found that, while these firms initially framed  climate change in broad terms, organizational engagement with the concept inevitably resulted in more limited and less threatening ideas and practices that were amenable to prevailing discourses of profit maximization and "business as usual".  (Wright & Nyberg)
• Hand-wringing: The excessive display of concern or distress. 
• Our aim in this editorial is not to join the collective hand-wringing, but rather to offer insights aligned with our editorial's team focus on new ways of seeing. (AMJ)
• Prognosis:The likely course of a medical condition; a forecast of the likely outcome of the situation. 
• Although this book is a diagnoses rather than a prognosis -an analysis rather than a solution-its results have a bearing on our course of action. (Escape from Freedom-Enrich Fromm)  
• Automaton: A person or animal that acts in a monotonous, routine manner without intelligence
• After centuries of struggles, man succeeded in building an undreamed-of wealth of material goods; he built democratic societies in parts of the world, and recently was victorious in defending himself against new totalitarian schemes; yet, as analysis in Escape from Freedom attempts to show, modern man still is anxious and tempted to surrender his freedom to dictators of all kinds, or to lost it by transforming himself into a small cog in the machine, well fed, and well clothed, yet not a free man but an automaton. (Escape from Freedom-Enrich Fromm)  

19 April 2019

• Recursive: Characterized by recurrence and repetition
•  I have come to fully embrace the recursive and serendipitous nature of writing as a practice.  (Charlotte Cloutier)