Glossary of Terms

Myriad:
a) Constituting a very large, indefinite number; innumerable.
b) Composed of numerous diverse elements or facets.
c) A vast number.
Tacit:
a) Not spoken.
b) Implied by or inferred from actions or statements.

Inferential:
a) Of, relating to, or involving inference.
b) Derived or capable of being derived by inference.

Impoverish
a) To reduce to poverty; make poor.
b) To deprive of natural richness or strength.

Irrevocable
a) Impossible to retract or revoke

Visceral
a) Relating to, situated in, or affecting the viscera.
b) Perceived in or as if in the viscera; profound.
c) Instinctive.

Cerebral
a) Of or relating to the brain or cerebrum.
b) Appealing to or requiring the use of the intellect; intellectual rather than emotional.

Tantalize
a) To excite another by exposing something desirable while keeping it out of reach.

Touted
a) To solicit customers, votes, or patronage, especially in a brazen way.
b) To obtain and deal in information on racehorses.

Obstinacy
a) The state or quality of being stubborn or refractory.
b) The act or an instance of being stubborn or refractory.

Transcendence
a) The quality or state of being transcendent; superior excellence; supereminence.
b) Elevation above truth; exaggeration.

Disparity
a) The condition or fact of being unequal, as in age, rank, or degree; difference.
b) Unlikeness.

Arduous
a) Demanding great effort or labor; difficult.
b) Testing severely the powers of endurance.
c) Hard to traverse, climb, or surmount.

Archetypal
a) Of or pertaining to an archetype; consisting a model (real or ideal) or pattern; original.

Postulated
a) To make claim for; demand.
b) To assume or assert the truth, reality, or necessity of, especially as a basis of an argument.
c) To assume as a premise or axiom; take for granted.

Egregious
a) Conspicuously bad or offensive.

Metanarrative
a) In critical theory, and particularly postmodernism, a metanarrative is a grand overarching account, or all-encompassing story, which is thought to give order to the historical record.

Stalwart
a) Having or marked by imposing physical strength.
b) Firm and resolute; stout.

Truisms
a) A self-evident truth.