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alacrity 🔊 (general usage): Eager willingness or enthusiastic readiness to do something. Edit

argument 🔊 (critical thinking): A conclusion together with one or more reasons or evidence offered to justify accepting that conclusion. Edit

argument 🔊 (relationship dynamics): A verbal disagreement or exchange of opposing views between individuals, often resulting in heightened emotions. Edit

cosplay 🔊 (hobby and culture): The practice of dressing up and sometimes acting as a character from a movie, book, video game, or other form of media. Edit

critical thinking 🔊 (life skill): A method (involving questions, standards, evidence, logic, research, evaluation, and so on) for making the best choices, finding out what is best, and finding out what is most likely true. Edit

drawback 🔊 (psychology): Anything that tends to cause a person to not take or not repeat an action; typically something deemed undesirable or unwanted. Edit

energy 🔊 (physics): The capacity of matter to do work or provide heat. Edit

evidence 🔊 (argument and reasoning): Information that either increases or decreases the likelihood that a claim is accurate. Edit

evidence 🔊 (argumentation): Information or details used to support a claim, argument, or conclusion. Edit

goal 🔊 (life skill): A future result that a person or group aims to achieve. Edit

government 🔊 (political science): The system (people, roles, laws, norms, infrastructure, stories, and so on) that makes, applies, and enforces collective decisions for a political community (city, county, state, nation, tribe, and so on). Edit

habeas corpus 🔊 (legal): The legal right of a detained person to require the government to prove that the detention is lawful. Edit

importance 🔊 (life skill): The degree to which something influences your outcomes Edit

mea culpa 🔊 (general usage): An acknowledgment of one's fault or error. Edit

motivation 🔊 (psychology): The inner drive to engage in goal oriented actions. Edit

payoff 🔊 (psychology): Rewards minus drawbacks taken holistically. Edit

power 🔊 (physics): The rate (amount/time) of energy change, heat transfer, or work. Edit

power 🔊 (sociology): The ability or authority to influence or control people or outcomes. Edit

reward 🔊 (psychology): Anything that can tend to cause an organism (including a persson) to take or repeat an action. Edit

sine qua non 🔊 (everyday usage): An indispensable condition or element that is necessary for something else to occur or exist. Edit

value 🔊 (life skill): The desirability of something Edit