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Definitions a-f

From: Joe R. N.J.
Category: Category 1
Date: 15 Jan 1999
Time: 12:22:14
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A Abstinence: 1. The act of abstaining (especially from drugs) 2. Act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite Accept: 1. Consider or hold as true 2. Receive willingly something given or offered 3. React favorably to; consider right and proper 4. Tolerate or accommodate oneself to Acceptance: 1. The mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true Acclamation: 1. Enthusiastic approval Achieve: 1. To gain with effort Acknowledge: 1. Discern 2. Cite, as for an outstanding achievement 3. Express obligation for Acquired: 1. Come into the possession of something concrete or abstract 2. Take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect 3. Come to have, of physical features and attributes 4. Gotten through environmental forces Action: 1. Something done (usually as opposed to something said) 2. The state of being active 3. The series of events that form a plot 4. The trait of being active and energetic and forceful Active: 1. (pathology) tending to become more severe or wider in scope 2. Taking part in an activity 3. Characterized by energetic activity 4. Exerting influence or producing an effect 5. In operation 6. Engaged in full-time work Addict: 1. Someone who is so ardently devoted to something that it resembles an addiction 2. Someone who is physiologically dependent on a substance; abrupt deprivation of the substance produces withdrawal symptoms 3. Is a man or woman whose life is controlled by drugs. Addiction: 1. Being abnormally dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) 2. An abnormally strong craving 3. A physical, mental and spiritual disease that effects every area of our lives Admission: 1. The act of admitting someone to enter Admit: 1.Declare or acknowledge to be true 2. Afford possibility 3. An acknowledgment of the truth of something Adversity: 1. A state of misfortune or affliction 2. A stroke of ill fortune; a calamitous event Advice: 1. A proposal for an appropriate course of action Afraid: 1. Filled with fear or apprehension 2. Filled with regret or concern; used often to soften an unpleasant statement 3. Feeling worry or concern or insecurity 4. Having feelings of aversion or unwillingness Age: 1. How long something has existed 2. A time in life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises Alienate: 1. Arouse enmity or indifference in where there had formerly been love, affection, or friendliness Alienation: 1. The feeling of being alienated from other people 2. Separation resulting from hostility Alternative: 1. Allowing a choice 2. Necessitating a choice between mutually exclusive possibilities 3. Pertaining to unconventional choices Amends: 1. Compensation (given or received) for an injury or insult 2. Set straight or right An unhealthy preoccupation with something or someone Anger: 1. A strong emotion; a feeling that is oriented toward some real or supposed grievance 2. Belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins) Anguish: 1. Extreme mental distress 2. Extreme distress of body or mind Anonymous: 1. Having no known name or identity or known source 2. Not known or lacking marked individuality Antidote: 1. Stops or controls the effects of a poison Anti-social: 1. Shunning contact with others 2. Unwilling or unable to conform to normal standards of social behavior Anxiety: 1. A vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune Apathy: 1. An absence of emotion or enthusiasm 2. The trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally Apparent: 1. Clearly apparent or obvious to the mind or senses 2. Appearing as such but not necessarily so 3. Readily apparent to the eye Appraisal: 1. The classification of someone or something with respect to its worth Appreciation: 1. Understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something 2. An expression of gratitude 3. A favorable judgment Appropriate: 1. Suitable for a particular person or place or condition etc Approval-seeking : 1. Arise: 1. Come into existence or develop 2. Originate or come into being 3. Occur Arrested: 1. Hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of 2. Take into custody, as of suspected criminals, by the police 3. Cause to stop 4. Having development checked or reversed Arrogance: 1. Overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors Aspect: 1. A distinct feature or element in a problem 2. A characteristic to be considered Aspiration: 1. A will to succeed 2. A cherished desire Assume: 1. Take to be the case or to be true; accept without verification or proof 2. Take on titles, offices, duties, responsibilities 3. Take on a certain form, attribute, or aspect 4. Take control of; take as one's right or possession Assurance: 1. Freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities 2. A binding Atmosphere: 1. A particular environment or surrounding influence 2. The weather or climate at some place 3. A distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing Attempt: 1. Earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something 2. An assault on someone 3. Make an effort or attempt 4. Enter upon an activity or enterprise Attitude: 1. A complex mental orientation involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways Attraction: 1. The force by which one object attracts another 2. The quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts 3. A characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts people Attribute: 1. A construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished 2. An abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity 3. Attribute to a source or cause Autonomous: 1. Existing as an independent entity 2. Of persons; free from external control and constraint in e.g. action and judgment Avoid: 1. Stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something 2. Prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening 3. Refrain from doing something 4. Awake: 1. Not in a state of sleep; completely conscious 2. Not unconscious; especially having become conscious 3. showing acute awareness; mentally perceptive Awaken: 1. Cause to become awake or conscious (see become) Awareness: 1. Having knowledge of 2. State of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness B Baffled: 1. People who are frustrated and perplexed 2. Be a mystery or bewildering to 3. Perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment 4. Used especially of feelings of defeat and discouragement Balance: 1. Harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design) 1. Equality of distribution Become: 1. Enter or assume a certain state or condition 2. Undergo a change or development 3. Come into existence Behavior: 1. Manner of acting or conducting oneself 2. The action or reaction of something (as a machine or substance) under specified circumstances 3. Behavioral attributes Belief: 1. Any cognitive content held as true 2. A religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true 3. without proof 4. A vague idea in which some confidence is placed Benefits: 1. Something that aids or promotes well-being Betrayal: 1. The quality of aiding an enemy 2. An act of deliberate betrayal Binge: 1. An occasion for heavy drinking 2. Overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself Blaming: 1. Harass with constant criticism 2. Attribute responsibility to Bond: 1. A connection based on kinship or marriage or common interest 2. A connection that fastens things together Boredom: 1. The feeling of being bored by something tedious Bugaboos: 1. An imaginary monster used to frighten children 2. A source of concern Buoyant: 1. Tending to float on a liquid or rise in air or gas 2. Characterized by liveliness and light-heartedness Burden: 1. difficult concern 2. Something to be borne or conveyed 3. Weight down with a load 4. Impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to But: 1. And nothing more c Caring: 1. Feel concern or interest 2. Provide care for 3. Be in charge of, act on, or dispose of 4. Be concerned with 5. Having or displaying warmth or affection 6. Feeling and exhibiting concern and empathy for others Change: 1. An event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another 2. A relational difference between states; especially between states before and after some event 3. The result of alteration or modification 4. Make or become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence 5. Lay aside, abandon, or leave for another Chaos: 1. A state of extreme confusion and disorder Character: 1. A characteristic property that defines the apparent individual nature of something 2. The inherent complex of attributes that determine a persons moral and ethical actions and reactions Characteristic: 1.A prominent aspect of something 2. A distinguishing quality 3. Typical or distinctive Cling: 1. Come or be in close contact with 2. To remain emotionally or intellectually attached 3. Hold on tightly or tenaciously Close-mindedness: 1. Clouds: 1. Suspicion affecting your reputation 2. Make less visible or unclear 3. Make gloomy or depressed 4. Place under suspicion or cast doubt upon commitment to do or give or refrain from something 3. A statement intended to inspire confidence Commitment: 1. The trait of sincere and steadfast fixity of purpose 2. The act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action 3. A message that makes a pledge 4. An engagement by contract involving financial or business obligations Common: 1. Of no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual 2. shared by two or more parties 3. Of or associated with the great masses of people 3. Of low or inferior quality or value 4. Lacking refinement or cultivation or taste 5. To be expected; standard Communicate: 1. Let know; pass information on (to someone) 2. Transmit thoughts or feelings 3. Transfer or deliver to another, as of information Compassion: 1. A deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering 2. The humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it Compel: 1. Force or compel somebody to do something 2. Make someone do something Complacency: 1. The feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself 2. Contended self-satisfaction 3. Lack of concern Comprehend: 1. Get the meaning of something 2. To become aware of through the senses Compromising: 1. Settle by concession 2. Expose or make liable to danger, suspicion, or disrepute 3. Vulnerable to danger especially of discredit or suspicion Compulsion: 1. An urge to do or say something that might be better left undone or unsaid 2. The irrational impulse to continue using drugs, no matter what happens as a result. We just can't stop (It Works How & Why Pg.6) 3. Once having started the process with one fix, one pill, or one drink we cannot stop through our own power of will (Basic Text Pg.84) Compulsive: 1. A person with a compulsive disposition; someone who feels compelled to do certain things 2. Strongly motivated to succeed 3. Once having started the process with one fix, one pill, or one drink we cannot stop through our own power of will (Basic Text Pg.84) Concede: 1. Give over; surrender or relinquish to the physical control of another 2. Acknowledge defeat Conceivable: 1. Within the bounds of what may be conceived within the framework of nature 2. Possible to conceive or imagine Concept: 1. An abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances Conclusion: 1. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration 2. An intuitive assumption 3. The concluding time 4. An event whose occurrence ends something 5. The act of ending something 6. A final settlement 7. The act of making up your mind about something Condemn: 1. Express strong disapproval of 2. Declare or judge unfit 3. Compel or force into a particular state or activity 4. Demonstrate the guilt of (someone) Condition: 1. A state at a particular time 2. A mode of being or form of existence of a person or things 3. An assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else 4. A statement of what is required as part of an agreement 5. The state of (good) health--especially in the phrases "in condition" or "in shape" or "out of condition" or "out of shape" 6. Information that should be kept in mind when making a decision 7. Train by instruction and practice; esp. to teach self-control 8. Put into a better state Conducting: 1. Direct the course of; manage or control 2. Behave in a certain manner Confidence: 1. Freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities 2. A feeling of trust (in someone or something) 3. A state of confident hopefulness that events will be favorable 4. A secret that is confided or entrusted to another Confront: 1. Oppose in hostility 2. Come to grips with face (something unpleasant) head on 3. Present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize 4. Be face to face with Confused: 1. Mistake one thing for another 2. perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly 3. Cause to feel embarrassment 4. Assemble without order or sense 5. Make unclear or incomprehensible Confusion: 1. Disorder resulting from a failure to behave predictably 2. A mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior 3. feeling of embarrassment that leaves you confused 4. A mistake that results from taking one thing to be another Conscious: 1. Yield (to); give satisfaction to 2. Knowing and perceiving; having awareness of surroundings and sensations and thoughts 3. Showing realization or recognition or something; followed by "of" 4. A refection of our relationship with a Higher Power (It Works How & Why Pg.135) Consequence: 1. A phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon 2. The outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual 3. Having important effects or influence Consistent: 1. Capable of being reproduced 2. The same throughout in structure or composition Contentment: 1. Happiness with one's situation in life Continue: 1. Keep or maintain in unaltered condition; cause to remain or last 2. Move ahead; travel onward 3. Allow to remain in a place or position 4. Carry forward 5. Continue after an interruption 6. Continue in a place, position, or situation. 6. Exist over a prolonged period of time Contradict: 1. Deny the truth of 2. Be resistant to 3. Prove negative; show to be false contraries if both cannot be true but both can be false 4. Very opposed in nature or character or purpose 5. Resistant to guidance or discipline Contrary: 1. A relation of direct opposition 2. Exact opposition 3. Two propositions are Contribute: 1. Of a quality, as in 2. Be conducive to 3. provide Control: 1. Power to direct or determine 2. A relation of constraint of one entity (thing or person or group) by another 3. (physiology) regulation or maintenance of a function or action or reflex etc 4. The state that exists when one person or group has power over another 5. Great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity 6. Exercise authoritative control or power over 7. Lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits 8. Handle and cause to function 9. Influence skillfully to one's advantage 10. Be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something 11. Have a firm understanding or knowledge of; be on top of Convince: 1. Make (someone) agree, understand, or realize the truth or validity of something Cope: 1. Come to terms or deal successfully with; "We got by on just a gallon of gas." Core: 1. A small group of indispensable persons or things 2. he choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience 3. The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work Courage: 1. A quality of spirit that enables you to face danger of pain without showing fear Creed: 1. Any system of principles or beliefs 2. The body of teachings of a religious group that are generally accepted by that group Critical: 1. Marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws 2. Characterized by careful evaluation and judgment 3. Urgently needed; absolutely necessary 4. Forming or having the nature of a turning point or crisis 5. Being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency 6. Of or involving or characteristic of critics or criticism Crucial: 1. Of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis 2. Of the greatest importance 3. Having the power or quality of deciding Cult: 1. Adherents of an exclusive system of religious beliefs and practices 2. An interest followed with exaggerated zeal 3. A system of religious beliefs and rituals Cure: 1. A medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain 2. Provide a cure for, make healthy again D Daily: 1. Occurring or done each day 2. Occurring every day or measured by the day 3. Without missing a day 4. Without missing a day Dangerous: 1. Involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm 2. Causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm Deceit: 1. The quality of being fraudulent 2. A misleading falsehood Deception: 1. A misleading falsehood 2. The act of deceiving 3. An illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers Decision: 1. The act of making up your mind about something 2. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration Declaration: 1. Emphatic or explicit statement Declare: 1. State clearly 2. Announce officially 3. State firmly 4. Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret Defame: 1. Charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone Defects: 1. A failing or deficiency 2. An imperfection in a bodily system 3. A mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body) Defiant: 1. Boldly resisting authority or an opposing force Degradation: 1. Changing to a lower state (a less respected state) 2. A low or downcast state Delusion; 1. An erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary 2. A mistaken opinion or idea Demolition: 1. An event that destroys something 2. The act of destroying something Demoralization:.1 Destroying the moral basis for a doctrine or policy 2. A state of disorder and confusion 3. Depression resulting from an undermining of your morale Denial: 1.An assertion that something alleged is not true 2. A defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts 3. Renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others 4. Part of our disease that makes it difficult, if not impossible, for us to acknowledge reality (It work How & Why Pg.7) Deny: 1. Declare untrue; contradict 2. Refuse to accept or believe 3. Refuse to grant, as of a petition or request 3. Refuse to let have 4. Restrain, esp. from indulging in some pleasure 5. Refuse to recognize or acknowledge Depend: 1. Be contingent on 2. Rely on Dependent: 1. A person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support) 2. Contingent on something else 3. Being under the power or sovereignty of another or others 4. Addicted to a drug Depravity: 1. Moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles 2. A corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice Depression: 1. A mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity 2. Sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy 3. A state of sadness and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention 4. Pushing down Dereliction: 1. A tendency to be negligent and uncaring 2. Willful negligence Desire: 1. The feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state 2. An inclination to want things 3. Something that is desired Despair: 1. A state in which everything seems wrong and will turn out badly 2. The feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well 3. Abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart Desperation: 1. A state in which everything seems wrong and will turn out badly 2. Desperate recklessness Destruction: 1 Termination by an act of destruction 2. An event that destroys something 3. A final state Develop: 1. Termination by an act of destruction 2. An event that destroys something 3. A final state. Dilemma: 1. State of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options Direct: 1. Intend (something) to move towards a certain goal 2. Command with authority 3.Be in charge of 4. Lead 5. Give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction 6. Immediate or direct in bearing or force; having nothing intervening 7. Extended senses; direct in means or manner or behavior or language or action 8. As an immediate result or consequence 9. Exact 10. Without deviation Direction: 1. A general course along which something has a tendency to develop 2. advice as to a decision or course of action 3. A message describing how something is to be done 4. The act of setting and holding a course Disagreement: 1. A conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters 2. A difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions 3. The speech act of disagreeing or arguing or disputing Disaster: 1. A state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune 2. An event resulting in great loss and misfortune 3. An act that has disastrous consequences Disclosure: 1. Making something evident Discretion: 1. Freedom to act or judge on one's own 2. Knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress 3. The trait of judging wisely and objectively 4. The power of making free choices unconstrained by external agencies 5. The trait of judging wisely and objectively Disease: 1. An impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning Dishonesty: 1. The quality of being dishonest 2. Lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing Disillusion: 1. Freeing from false belief or illusions 2. Free from enchantment Disqualify: 1. Make unfit or unsuitable 2. Declare unfit Distort: 1. Make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story 2. Alter the shape of (something) by stress 3. Spoil the appearance of Distracting: 1. Draw someone's attention away from something 2. Disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed Disturbing: 1. Move deeply 2. Change the arrangement or position of 3. Tamper with 3. Destroy the peace or tranquility of 4. Damage as if by shaking or jarring 5. Causing distress or worry or anxiety Diversity: 1. The condition or result of being variable Divine: 1. Perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers 2. Discover intuitively 3. Emanating from God 4. Being or having the nature of a god Dogma: 1. A religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof 2. A doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative Dominated: 1. Be larger in number, quantity, or importance 2. Be in control; Have dominance over 3. Look down on 4. Controlled or ruled by superior authority or power 5. Harassed by persistent nagging Dynamic: 1. An efficient incentive 2. Characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality E Eager: 1. Having or showing keen interest or intense desire or impatient expectancy 2. Marked by active interest and enthusiasm Eagerly: 1. With eagerness; in an eager manner Efficiency: 1. Skillfulness in avoiding wasted time and effort Effort: 1. Earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something 2. Use of physical or mental energy; hard work 3. A notable achievement 4. A series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end Ego: 1. An inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others 2. Your consciousness of your own identity 3. (psychoanalysis) the conscious mind Egocentric: 1. A self-centered person with little regard for others 2. Limited to or caring only about yourself and your own needs Embarrassed: Feeling or caused to feel uneasy and self-conscious 2. Caused to feel self-conscious and uncomfortable 3. Made to feel uncomfortable because of shame or wounded pride Embarrassment: 1. The shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public 2. Extreme excess Emotion: 1. Any strong feeling Emotional: 1. Of persons; excessively affected by emotion Empathy: 1. Understanding and entering into another's feelings 2. That wordless language of recognition, belief and faith Emptiness: 1. The state of containing nothing 2. Having an empty stomach 3. An empty area or space 4. The quality of being valueless or futile Encourage: 1. Contribute to the progress or growth of 2. Inspire with confidence; give hope or courage to Encouragement: 1. The expression of approval and support 2. The act of giving hope or support to someone 3. The feeling of being encouraged Endanger: 1. Pose a threat to; present a danger to 2. Put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position Endangered : 1. in imminent danger of extinction Endorse: 1. Give support or one's blessing to 2. Guarantee as meeting a certain standard 3. Be behind; support or vote for Endure: 1. Put up with something or somebody unpleasant 2. Be subjected to Enemies: 1. An opposing military force 2. Any hostile group of people 2. A personal enemy Enthusiasm: 1. A feeling of excitement 2. A lively interest Entirely: 1. To a complete degree or to the full or entire extent 2. Without any others being included or involved Envy: 1. A feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something possessed by another 2. Spite and resentment at seeing the success of another (personified as one of the deadly sins) Equal: 1. Be identical or equivalent to 2. Be equal to in quality or ability; "Nothing can rival cotton for durability" 3. Make uniform Esoteric: 1. Confined to and understandable by only an enlightened inner circle Essential: 1. Basic and fundamental 2. Of the greatest importance 3. Absolutely required and Eventually: 1. Within an indefinite time or at an unspecified future time 2. After a long period of time or an especially long delay Evident: 1. Clearly apparent or obvious to the mind or senses 2. Capable of being seen or noticed Exact: 1. Marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact 2. Exact in Examine: 1. Consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning 2. Observe carefully or inspect 3. Question or examine thoroughly and closely 4. Question closely Except: 1. Prevent from being included or considered or accepted Exert: 1. Put to use 2. Of power or authority 3. Make a great effort at a mental or physical task Exhaust: 1. Wear out completely 2. Use up, as of resources or materials 3. Deplete 4. Use up the whole supply of Exist 1. Stay alive; survive Existence: 1. The state or fact of existing 2. Everything that exists anywhere Expectation: 1. Belief about (or mental picture of) the future 2. Wishing with confidence of fulfillment 3. The feeling that something is about to happen Experience: 1. The accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities 2. The content of direct observation or participation in an event 3. Go or live through 4. Have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations 5. Undergo an emotional sensation Exposure: 1. The act of subjecting someone to an influencing experience 2. The disclosure of something secret 3. The state of being vulnerable External: 1. Outward features 2. Outward features 3. Happening or arising or located outside or beyond some limits or especially surface 4. Purely outward or superficial Extreme: 1. The furthest or highest degree of something 2. Of the greatest possible degree or extent or intensity 3. Far beyond a norm in quantity or amount or degree; to an utmost degree F Failed: 1. Be unsuccessful 2. Disappoint, prove undependable to; abandon, forsake 3. Stop operating or functioning 4. Fall short in what is expected 5. Prove insufficient 6. Get worse Failure: 1. An event that does not accomplish its intended purpose 2. A person with a record of failing 3. An unexpected omission Faith: 1. A strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny 2. Complete confidence in a person or plan etc 3. Loyalty or allegiance to a cause or a person Faults: 1. A wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention 2. The quality of being faulty or inadequate 3. Responsibility for a bad situation or event 4. Put or pin the blame on Fear: 1. An emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight) 2. An anxious feeling 3. Be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event Fearless: 1. Oblivious of dangers or perils or calmly resolute in facing them 2. Possessing or 3. displaying courage; able to face and deal with danger or fear without flinching 4.Invulnerable to fear or intimidation Feeble: 1. Pathetically lacking in force or effectiveness 2. Lacking strength or vigor 3. Lacking physical strength or vitality 4. Lacking strength


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