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- emulating
- to try to equal or excel; imitate with effort to equal or surpass: to emulate one's father as a concert violinist.
- narcissist
- someone in love with themselves
- irony
- the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning: the irony of her reply, "How nice!" when I said I had to work all weekend.
- skepticism
- A doubting or questioning attitude or state of mind; dubiety
- divergent
- Drawing apart from a common point; diverging.
- renunciation
- reject;step down
- hypocrisy
- a pretense of having a virtuous character, moral or religious beliefs or principles, etc., that one does not really possess.
- ambivalence
- uncertainty or fluctuation, esp. when caused by inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desire to say or do two opposite or conflicting things.
- shards
- pieces
- inevitable
- unable to be avoided, evaded, or escaped; certain; necessary: an inevitable conclusion.
- pivotal
- turning around
- enigma
- a puzzling or inexplicable occurrence or situation: His disappearance is an enigma that has given rise to much speculation.
- cynicism
- An attitude of scornful or jaded negativity, especially a general distrust of the integrity or professed motives of others: the public cynicism aroused by governmental scandals.
- affluent
- having an abundance of wealth, property, or other material goods; prosperous; rich: an affluent person.
- impartial
- not partial or biased; fair; just: an impartial judge
- rigor
- strictness, severity, or harshness, as in dealing with people.
- rendering
- to give up
- tabloid
- short newspaper
- allure
- attraction
- convoluted
- complicated; intricately involved: a convoluted way of describing a simple device.
- oblique
- not straight or direct, as a course.
- fulminated
- one of a group of unstable, explosive compounds derived from fulminic acid, esp. the mercury salt of fulminic acid, which is a powerful detonating agent.
- tolstoyan
- His later theories of ethics and morality recommended nonparticipation in and passive resistance to evil.
- trekking
- a hard journey
- paradox
- a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
- ascetism
- the condition or practice of self-denial
- meandering
- To follow a winding and turning course: Streams tend to meander through level land.
- peril
- 1. exposure to injury, loss, or destruction; grave risk; jeopardy; danger: They faced the peril of falling rocks.
- idealism
- beleive in purity of something
- inquiry
- questioning
- destitute
- without means of subsistence; lacking food, clothing, and shelter.
- Peregrination
- a course of travel; journey.
- ambiguity
- doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention: to speak with ambiguity; an ambiguity of manner.