A New Year’s resolution is a tradition, most common in the Western World but also found in the Eastern World, in which a person resolves to continue good practices, change an undesired trait or behavior, accomplish a personal goal, or otherwise improve their life at the start of a new year. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/ Watch this video on YouTube. What…
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Nascent 1100 Words You Need Week 37 Day 3 Nascent 1100 Words You Need Week 37 Day 3 /ˈnæs.ənt/ /ˈneɪ.sənt/ (adj) recently starting to grow or develop, fledgling, developing, just coming into existence, just beginning, budding, embryonic, incipient, evolving, emergent, dawning, burgeoning, promising, blossoming The nascent state is defined as a psychological process of destructuration-reorganization…
Sensitive 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 34 /ˈsent.sɪ.tɪv/ (adj) easily influenced, hurt, upset or changed, squeamish, hypersensitive, thin-skinned, vulnerable, delicate, fragile, precise – caring about other people and their needs, responsive, receptive, thoughtful, sympathetic – reacting to slight changes, susceptible, perceptive, impressionable A highly sensitive person (HSP) is a term for those who are thought…
Lunatic 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 31 /ˈluː.nə.tɪk/ (adj & noun) Noun: someone who behaves insanely or foolishly, maniac, psychopath, madman, psychotic, psycho Adjective: thoughtless, crazy, stupid, insane, inane “Only a lunatic would think that art is superior to nature.” ― Gao Xingjian, Soul Mountain Source: https://www.goodreads.com/
Megalomania 1100 Words You Need Megalomania 1100 Words You Need /ˌmeg.əl.əˈmeɪ.ni.ə/ (noun) a mental illness or disorder in which the person wants to have maximum power and authority for themselves and be able to control others excessively, greed for power, psychiatric disorder with delusions of power, power lust, overbearingness, tyranny, totalitarianism, autocracy, despotism, narcissism: Megalomania…