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lack of the usual social or ethical standards in an individual or group, which lessens social cohesion and fosters decline; popularized by French sociologist Émile Durkheim in his influential book Suicide

lack of the usual social or ethical standards in an individual or group, which lessens social cohesion and fosters decline; popularized by French sociologist Émile Durkheim in his influential book Suicide

lack of the usual social or ethical standards in an individual or group, which lessens social cohesion and fosters decline; popularized by French sociologist Émile Durkheim in his influential book Suicide

a contradiction between two beliefs or conclusions that are in themselves reasonable; a paradox

(adjective) of, relating to, or situated at an apex / (adjective) of, relating to, or formed with the tip of the tongue / (noun) inhibition of the growth of lateral buds by the terminal bud of a shoot / (noun) a meristem at the apex of a root or shoot that is responsible for increase in length

a person who renounces a religious or political belief or principle; the general form is "apostasy"

a person who renounces a religious or political belief or principle; the general form is "apostasy"

a person who renounces a religious or political belief or principle; the general form is "apostasy"

the highest point in the development of something; culmination or climax

(adjective) highly pertinent or appropriate; apt

(adjective) highly pertinent or appropriate; apt

(noun) divination from auspices or omens / noun) omen, portent

(adjective) of a golden color or brilliance / (adjective) marked by grandiloquent and rhetorical style

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(verb) to make up into a bale

(noun) a literary term coined by Alexander Pope to describe to describe amusingly failed attempts at sublimity (an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous); adj is "bathetic"

(noun) a literary term coined by Alexander Pope to describe to describe amusingly failed attempts at sublimity (an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous); adj is "bathetic"

(verb) dress up or decorate gaudily

a category of writing derived from the French phrase meaning "beautiful" or "fine" writing; includes all literary works—especially fiction, poetry, drama, or essays—valued for their aesthetic qualities and originality of style and tone

(adjective) of, relating to, or suggestive of Bishop Berkeley or his system of philosophical idealism, whose fundamental proposition can be summed up as "esse est percepi" (Latin for "To be is to be perceived")

a decorative moulding above or around a panel or other architectural feature

(noun) the point of junction of the coronal and sagittal sutures of the skull

a Spanish or Mexican gentleman (the Spanish word for gentleman)

(adjective) glowing from or as if from great heat

in a slanting or oblique position

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