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perk
One of the perks of being a psychologist is access to tools that allow you to carry out the injunction to know thyself. |
Meaning #1: an incidental benefit awarded for certain types of employment (especially if it is regarded as a right)
Synonyms: fringe benefit, perquisite The verb perk has one meaning: Meaning #1: gain or regain energy Synonyms: perk up, percolate, pick up, gain vigor |
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conscientious
personality (open, conscientious, agreeable, average in extroversion, not too neurotic) |
Meaning #1: characterized by extreme care and great effort
Synonyms: painstaking, scrupulous Meaning #2: guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right and wrong Antonym: unconscientious (meaning #1) |
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extroversion
personality (open, conscientious, agreeable, average in extroversion, not too neurotic) |
Meaning #1: (psychology) an extroverted disposition; concern with what is outside the self
Antonyms: introversion (meaning #3), ambiversion (meaning #1) extroversive adj. extroversively adv. |
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neurotic
personality (open, conscientious, agreeable, average in extroversion, not too neurotic) |
adj.
1. Of, relating to, or affected with a neurosis. No longer in scientific use. 2. Informal. Overanxious: neurotic about punctuality. n. 1. A person suffering from a neurosis. No longer in scientific use. 2. Informal. A person prone to excessive anxiety and emotional upset. neurotically neu·rot'i·cal·ly adv. |
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bulge
no obvious holes or bulges |
Meaning #1: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form
Synonyms: bump, hump, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence The verb bulge has 4 meanings: Meaning #1: swell or protrude outwards Synonyms: pouch, protrude Meaning #2: bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge Synonym: bag Meaning #3: bulge outward Synonyms: protrude, pop, pop out, bulge out, bug out, come out Meaning #4: cause to bulge or swell outwards Synonym: bulk |
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subliminally
my brain will be scanned while my wife’s name is subliminally flashed before my eyes. |
adj.
1. Below the threshold of conscious perception. Used of stimuli. 2. Inadequate to produce conscious awareness but able to evoke a response. sub·lim'i·nal·ly adv. |
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submit to
Last fall I submitted to the latest high-tech way to bare your soul. |
To yield or surrender (oneself) to the will or authority of another.
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audacious
George Church sought 10 volunteers to kick off his audacious Personal Genome Project |
Meaning #1: invulnerable to fear or intimidation
Synonyms: brave, dauntless, fearless, intrepid, unfearing Meaning #2: unrestrained by convention or propriety Synonyms: barefaced, bodacious, bold-faced, brassy, brazen, brazen-faced, insolent Meaning #3: disposed to venture or take risks Synonyms: daring, venturesome, venturous |
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pitfall
the dawn of personal genomics promises benefits and pitfalls |
Meaning #1: an unforeseen or unexpected difficulty/danger
Meaning #2: a trap in the form of a concealed hole Synonym: pit |
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regimen
drug regimens are customized for a patient’s biochemistry |
Meaning #1: (medicine) a systematic plan for therapy (often including diet)
Synonym: regime |
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bottomfeeding
It opens up a niche for bottom-feeding companies to terrify hypochondriacs by turning dubious probabilities into Genes of Doom. |
bottom feeder
n. 1. A fish or other animal that feeds on the bottom of a body of water. 2. One that feeds low on the food chain; a scavenger. 3. Slang. 1. An opportunist who profits from the misfortunes of others: “The frazzled, adrenaline-pumped tabloid newshounds [in the movie] are the bottom feeders of contemporary journalism” (Entertainment Weekly). 2. A low or despicable person. bottomfeeding bottom feeding n. bottomfeeding bot'tom-feed'ing (bŏt'əm-fē'dĭng ) adj. |
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hypochondriac
It opens up a niche for bottom-feeding companies to terrify hypochondriacs by turning dubious probabilities into Genes of Doom. |
A person who constantly believes he or she is ill or about to become ill.
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leapfrog
leapfrogging decades of debate |
Meaning #1: jump across
Meaning #2: progress by large jumps instead of small increments |
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piecemeal
piecemeal insurance is not viable |
piece·meal
ad. 하나씩, 조금씩;점차로;조각조각으로 ━ a. 단편적인, 하나[조금]씩의 piecemeal rate 일한 분량에 대한 지불, 능률급 ━ n. [보통 다음 성구로] by piecemeal 조금씩, 점차로 |
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viable
piecemeal insurance is not viable |
vi·a·ble (vī'ə-bəl) pronunciation
adj. 1. Capable of living, developing, or germinating under favorable conditions. 2. Capable of living outside the uterus. Used of a fetus or newborn. 3. Capable of success or continuing effectiveness; practicable: a viable plan; a viable national economy. See synonyms at possible. [French, from vie, life, from Old French, from Latin vīta.] viability vi'a·bil'i·ty n. viably vi'a·bly adv. |
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injunction
tools that allow you to carry out the injunction to know thyself |
court order requiring a person to behave in a specified way. A "cease and desist" order requires the person to stop doing something and refrain from doing it in the future.
1. The act or an instance of enjoining; a command, directive, or order. 2. Law. A court order prohibiting a party from a specific course of action. |
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paternalistic
I doubt that paternalistic measures can stifle the industry for long |
pa·ter·nal·ism (pə-tûr'nə-lĭz'əm) pronunciation
n. A policy or practice of treating or governing people in a fatherly manner, especially by providing for their needs without giving them rights or responsibilities. paternalist pa·ter'nal·ist adj. & n. paternalistic pa·ter'nal·is'tic adj. paternalistically pa·ter' nal·is'ti·cal·ly adv. |
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stifle
I doubt that paternalistic measures can stifle the industry for long |
v., -fled, -fling, -fles.
v.tr. 1. To interrupt or cut off (the voice, for example). 2. To keep in or hold back; repress: stifled my indignation. 3. To kill by preventing respiration; smother or suffocate. v.intr. 1. To feel smothered or suffocated by or as if by close confinement in a stuffy room. 2. To die of suffocation. |
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libertarian
but then, I have a libertarian temperament |
lib·er·tar·i·an (lĭb'ər-târ'ē-ən) pronunciation
n. 1. One who advocates maximizing individual rights and minimizing the role of the state. 2. One who believes in free will. |
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temperament
but then, I have a libertarian temperament |
temperament
noun 1. A person's customary manner of emotional response: complexion, disposition, humor, nature, temper. See be. 2. A tendency to become angry or irritable: irascibility, irascibleness, spleen, temper, tetchiness. Informal dander. Slang short fuse. Idioms: low boiling point. See feelings. Meaning #1: your usual mood Synonym: disposition Meaning #2: excessive emotionalism or irritability and excitability (especially when displayed openly) |
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for better or foe worse
For better or for worse, people will want to know about their genomes. |
for better or for worse
Under good or bad circumstances, with good or bad effect. For example, For better or for worse he trusts everyone. This term became widely familiar because it appears in the marriage service of the Book of Common Prayer (1549): "With this ring I thee wed, for richer or poorer, in sickness and in health, for better or worse, til death do us part." [Late 1300s] |
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prone to
The human mind is prone to essentialism |
Meaning #1: lying face downward
Synonym: prostrate Meaning #2: having a tendency (to); often used in combination |
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essentialism
The human mind is prone to essentialism |
es·sen·tial·ism (ĭ-sĕn'shə-lĭz'əm) pronunciation
n. The metaphysical theory that the essential properties of an object can be distinguished from those that are accidental to it es·sen·tial·ism n. 1 《미》 【교육】 본질주의 2【철학】 실재론, 본질주의 |
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bound to
A firsthand familiarity with the code of life is bound to confront us with the emotional, moral and political baggage |
Meaning #4: (usually followed by `to') governed by fate
Synonym: destined ━ a. 1 묶인 bound hand and foot 손발이 묶여 2 의무가 있는 《to do》;속박된 《by》 be (in duty) bound to say so (반드시) 그렇게 말하지 않을 수 없다 3 <책이> 장정(裝幀)한;표지를 단 a book bound in cloth 클로스로 장정한 책 a leather-bound book 가죽 장정의 책 4 꼭 …하게 되어 있는 《to do》;《구어》 결심을 하고(determined) 《bound+to do》 Our team is bound to win. 우리 팀은 꼭 이긴다. |
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rumination
ruminations about our ancestry, our vulnerabilities, our character and our choices in life. |
The act or process of thinking: brainwork, cerebration, cogitation, contemplation, deliberation, excogitation, meditation, reflection, speculation, thought. See thoughts.
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