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Utilitarian
  • Word: Utilitarian
  • Meaning: (adj.) designed to be useful or practical rather than attractive.
  • Etymology: from Latin utilis “useful” --> from Latin uti “to use” ... Coined by Jeremy Bentham in 1781, originally meaning “one guided by the doctrine of the greatest happiness for the greatest number."
Idiosyncratic
  • Word: Idiosyncratic
  • Meaning: (adj.) peculiar or individual; distinctive.
  • Etymology: from Greek idiosynkrasia “peculiar temperament” --> from Greek idios “one’s own, private” + from Greek synkrasis “a mixing together”
Ideological
  • Word: Ideological
  • Meaning: (adj.) relating to or concerned with ideas or doctrines that form the basis of an economic or political theory and policy.
  • Etymology: from French idéologie "study or science of ideas," --> from Greek idea- “form, the look of a thing” + from Greek -logia “study of”
Hedonistic
  • Word: Hedonistic
  • Meaning: (adj.) devoted to the pursuit of pleasure; characterized by hedonism.
  • Etymology: from Greek hedone “pleasure,” --> from Greek hedonismos “pursuit of pleasure”
Secular
  • Word: Secular
  • Meaning: (adj.) of or relating to the worldly or temporal; not overtly or specifically religious.
  • Etymology: from Latin saecularis “worldly, temporal,” --> from Latin saeculum “generation, age”
Sympathetic
  • Word: Sympathetic
  • Meaning: (adj.) feeling or showing concern for someone who is hurt or in a difficult situation.
  • Etymology: from Greek sympatheia “fellow feeling” --> from Greek syn- “together” + from Greek pathos “feeling, suffering”
Eclectic
  • Word: Eclectic
  • Meaning: (adj.) selecting what appears to be best in various doctrines, methods, or styles.
  • Etymology: from Greek eklektikos “selective,” --> from Greek ek- “out” + from Greek legein “to gather, speak”
Leverage
  • Word: Leverage
  • Meaning: (n./v.) using something to its maximum advantage, or employing a small force to produce a much greater result.
  • Etymology: from English lever "power or force of a lever" --> from Latin levare “to raise, lift”
Vocation
  • Word: Vocation
  • Meaning: (n.) a strong feeling of suitability for a particular career or occupation; one’s work or calling.
  • Etymology: from Latin vocatio “a calling, summons” --> from Latin vocare “to call”
Osmosis
  • Word: Osmosis
  • Meaning: (n.) a process by which something is gradually absorbed or transferred.
  • Etymology: from Greek osmos “a pushing, impulse” --> from Greek othein “to push, thrust”

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