fo·cus

– noun
1. a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity.
2. a point at which rays of light, heat, or other radiation, meet after being refracted or reflected.
3. a. the clear and sharply defined condition of an image.
b. the position of a viewed object or the adjustment of an optical device necessary to produce a clear image.
4. a point having the property that the distances from any point on a curve to it and to a fixed line have a constant ratio for all points on the curve.
5. the primary center from which a disease develops or in which it localizes.
– verb
6. to concentrate.

po·si·tion

– noun
1. condition with reference to place; location; situation.
2. a place occupied or to be occupied; site.
3. the proper, appropriate, or usual place.
4. situation or condition, esp. with relation to favorable or unfavorable circumstances.
5. status or standing: He has a position to maintain in the community.
6. high standing, as in society; important status.
7. a post of employment.
8. manner of being placed, disposed, or arranged.
9. bodily posture or attitude.
10. mental attitude; stand.
11. the act of positing.
12. something that is posited.
13. any of the five basic positions of the feet with which every step or movement begins and ends.
14. a. the arrangement of tones in a chord, esp. with regard to the location of the root tone in a triad or to the distance of the tones from each other.
b. any of the places on the fingerboard of a stringed instrument where the fingers stop the strings to produce the variouspitches.
c. any of the places to which the slide of a trombone is shifted to produce changes in pitch.

sit·u·a·tion

–noun
1. manner of being situated; location or position with reference to environment.
2. a place or locality.
3. condition; case; plight.
4. the state of affairs; combination of circumstances.
5. a position or post of employment; job.
6. a state of affairs of special or critical significance in the course of a play, novel, etc.
7. the aggregate of biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors acting on an individual or group to condition behavioral patterns.

con·di·tion

– noun
1. a particular mode of being of a person or thing; existing state; situation with respect to circumstances.
2. state of health.
3. fit or requisite state.
4. social position.
5. a restricting, limiting, or modifying circumstance.
6. a circumstance indispensable to some result; prerequisite; that on which something else is contingent.
7. existing circumstances.
8. something demanded as an essential part of an agreement; provision; stipulation.

lens

– noun
1. a piece of transparent substance, usually glass, having two opposite surfaces either both curved or one curved and one plane, used in an optical device in changing the convergence of light rays, as for magnification, or in correcting defects of vision.
2. a combination of such pieces.
3. some analogous device, as for affecting sound waves, electromagnetic radiation, or streams of electrons.

tes·ser·act

- noun
1. the four-dimensional equivalent of a cube.

wiz·ard

– noun
1. a person who practices magic; magician or sorcerer.
2. a conjurer, enchanter, necromancer, thaumaturge, diviner or sage.
3. a person of amazing skill or accomplishment.
– adj.
4. possessing, using or characteristic of or appropriate to supernatural powers or magic.

cat·a·logue

- noun
1. A list or itemized display, as of titles, course offerings, or articles for exhibition or sale, usually including descriptive information or illustrations.
2. A publication, such as a book or pamphlet, containing such a list or display.
3. A list or enumeration.
- verb
4. To make an itemized list of.
5. To record or include.
6. To classify (a book or publication, for example) according to a categorical system.

ax·i·om

– noun
1. a self-evident truth that requires no proof.
2. a universally accepted principle or rule.
3. a proposition that is assumed without proof for the sake of studying the consequences that follow from it.

cli·ché

– noun
1. a trite, stereotyped expression; a sentence or phrase, usually expressing a popular or common thought or idea, that has lost originality, ingenuity, and impact by long overuse.
2. a trite or hackneyed plot, character development, use of color, musical expression, etc.
3. anything that has become trite or commonplace through overuse.

ar·che·type

– noun
1. the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form; prototype; quintessence.
2. a collectively inherited unconscious idea, pattern of thought, image, etc., universally present in individual psyches.

phys·ics

– noun
1. the science that deals with matter, energy, motion, and force.

mne·mon·ic

- adj.
1. relating to, assisting, or intended to assist the memory.
- noun
2. a device, such as a formula or rhyme, used as an aid in remembering.

cop·u·la

– noun
1. something that connects or links together.
2. a verb that serves as a connecting link or establishes an identity between subject and complement.
3. a word or set of words that acts as a connecting link between the subject and predicate of a proposition.

pred·i·cate

– verb
1. to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert.
2. to affirm or assert something of the subject of a proposition.
3. to connote; imply.
4. to found or derive; base.
5. to make an affirmation or assertion.
–noun
6. a syntactic unit that functions as one of the two main constituents of a simple sentence, the other being the subject, and that consists of a verb, which in English may agree with the subject in number, and of all the words governed by the verb or modifying it, the whole often expressing the action performed by or the state attributed to the subject, as is here in Larry is here.
7. that which is affirmed or denied concerning the subject of a proposition.

prop·o·si·tion

– noun
1. the act of offering or suggesting something to be considered, accepted, adopted, or done.
2. a plan or scheme proposed.
3. an offer of terms for a transaction.
4. a thing, matter, or person considered as something to be dealt with or encountered.
5. anything stated or affirmed for discussion or illustration.
6. a statement of the subject of an argument or a discourse, or of the course of action or essential idea to be advocated.
7. a statement in which something is affirmed or denied, so that it can therefore be significantly characterized as either true or false.
8. a formal statement of either a truth to be demonstrated or an operation to be performed; a theorem or a problem.

clev·er

– adj.
1. mentally bright; having sharp or quick intelligence; able.
2. superficially skillful, witty, or original in character or construction; facile.
3. showing inventiveness or originality; ingenious.
4. adroit with the hands or body; dexterous or nimble.
5. a. suitable; convenient; satisfactory.
b. good-natured.
c. handsome.
d. in good health.

lu·na·tic

– noun
1. an insane person.
2. a person whose actions and manner are marked by extreme eccentricity or recklessness.
3. a person legally declared to be of unsound mind and who therefore is not held capable or responsible before the law.
–adj.
4. insane; demented; crazy.
5. characteristic or suggestive of lunacy; wildly or recklessly foolish.
6. designated for or used by the insane.
7. gaily or lightheartedly mad, frivolous, eccentric, etc.

lu·na·cy

– noun
1. insanity; mental disorder.
2. intermittent insanity, formerly believed to be related to phases of the moon.
3. extreme foolishness or an instance of it.
4. unsoundness of mind sufficient to incapacitate one for civil transactions.

cli·mate

– noun
1. the composite or generally prevailing weather conditions of a region, as temperature, air pressure, humidity, precipitation, sunshine, cloudiness, and winds, throughout the year, averaged over a series of years.
2. a region or area characterized by a given condition.
3. the prevailing attitudes, standards, or environmental conditions of a group, period, or place.

ce·ler·i·ty

- noun
1. swiftness of action or motion; speed; haste.

theme

– noun
1. a subject of discourse, discussion, meditation, or composition; topic.
2. a unifying or dominant idea, motif, etc., as in a work of art.
3. a short, informal essay, esp. a school composition.
4. a. a principal melodic subject in a musical composition.
b. a short melodic subject from which variations are developed.
5. the element common to all or most of the forms of an inflectional paradigm, often consisting of a root with certain formative elements or modifications.

am·big·u·ous

– adj.
1. open to or having several possible meanings or interpretations; equivocal.
2. exhibiting constructional homonymity; having two or more structural descriptions, as the sequence Flying planes can be dangerous.
3. of doubtful or uncertain nature; difficult to comprehend, distinguish, or classify.
4. lacking clearness or definiteness; obscure; indistinct.

hom·o·nym

– noun
1. a word the same as another in sound and spelling but different in meaning.
2. a namesake.
3. a name given to a species or genus that has been assigned to a different species or genus and that is therefore rejected.

al·che·my

– noun
1. a form of chemistry and speculative philosophy practiced in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and concerned principally with discovering methods for transmuting baser metals into gold and with finding a universal solvent and an elixir of life.
2. any magical power or process of transmuting a common substance, usually of little value, into a substance of great value.

pseu·do

– adj.
1. not actually but having the appearance of; pretended; false or spurious; counterfeit; fake; sham.
2. almost, approaching, or trying to be.

o·men

– noun
1. anything perceived or happening that is believed to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; portent.
2. a prognostic.
3. prophetic significance; presage.

pre·cog·ni·tion

– noun
1. knowledge of a future event or situation, esp. through extrasensory means.

pre·mo·ni·tion

– noun
1. a feeling of anticipation of or anxiety over a future event; presentiment.
2. a forewarning.

clair·voy·ance

– noun
1. the supernatural power of seeing objects or actions removed in space or time from natural viewing.
2. quick, intuitive knowledge of things and people; sagacity.

clair·au·di·ence

– noun
1. the power to hear sounds said to exist beyond the reach of ordinary experience or capacity, as the voices of the dead.

"A sage lets go of extremism, luxury and apathy."
- Lao Tzu

di·men·sion

– noun
1. a. a property of space; extension in a given direction.
b. the generalization of this property to spaces with curvilinear extension, as the surface of a sphere.
c. the generalization of this property to vector spaces and to Hilbert space.
d. the generalization of this property to fractals, which can have dimensions that are noninteger real numbers.
e. extension in time.
2. a. measurement in length, width, and thickness.
b. scope; importance.
3. unit.
4. magnitude; size.
5. a. a magnitude that, independently or in conjunction with other such magnitudes, serves to define the location of an element within a given set, as of a point on a line, an object in a space, or an event in space-time.
b. the number of elements in a finite basis of a given vector space.
6. any of a set of basic kinds of quantity, as mass, length, and time, in terms of which all other kinds of quantity can be expressed; usually denoted by capital letters, with appropriate exponents, placed in brackets.

depth

–noun
1. a dimension taken through an object or body of material, usually downward from an upper surface, horizontally inward from an outer surface, or from top to bottom of something regarded as one of several layers.
2. the quality of being deep; deepness.
3. complexity or obscurity, as of a subject.
4. gravity; seriousness.
5. emotional profundity.
6. intensity, as of silence, color, etc.
7. lowness of tonal pitch.
8. the amount of knowledge, intelligence, wisdom, insight, feeling, etc., present in a person's mind or evident either in some product of the mind, as a learned paper, argument, work of art, etc., or in the person's behavior.
9. a high degree of such knowledge, insight, etc.
10. a deep part or place.
11. an unfathomable space; abyss.
12. the farthest, innermost, or extreme part or state.
13. a low intellectual or moral condition.
14. the part of greatest intensity, as of night or winter.