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  • 21lay — lay1 [lā] vt. laid, laying [ME leyen, new formation < 3d pers. sing. of earlier leggen < OE lecgan, lit., to make lie (akin to Goth lagjan, Ger legen) < pt. base of OE licgan, to LIE1] 1. to cause to come down or fall with force; knock… …

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  • 22De Oratore — First page of a miniature of Cicero s De oratore, 15th century, Northern Italy, now at the British Museum De Oratore ( On the Orator ) is a dialogue written by Cicero in 55 BCE. It is set in 91 BCE, when Lucius Licinius Crassus dies, just before… …

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  • 23Coping (psychology) — Coping has been defined in psychological terms by Susan Folkman and Richard Lazarus as constantly changing cognitive and behavioral efforts to manage specific external and/or internal demands that are appraised as taxing [1] or exceeding the… …

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  • 24Stoicism — Stoicism1 Brad Inwood 1 FROM SOCRATES TO ZENO More than eighty years passed between the death of Socrates in 399 BC and the arrival in Athens of Zeno in 312. Athenian society had undergone enormous upheavals, both political and social. The Greek… …

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  • 25Shinji Takahashi — Nihongo|Shinji Takahashi|高橋 信次|Takahashi Shinji|extra=September 21, 1927 June 25, 1976 was a Japanese religious leader, corporate manager and hardware engineer.Founder of the new religion/religious corporation God Light Association (GLA), born in …

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  • 26disparagement — dis·par·age·ment /di spar ij mənt/ n 1: the publication of false and injurious statements that are derogatory of another s property, business, or product – called also business disparagement, commercial disparagement, disparagement of property,… …

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  • 27lodge — I (bring a complaint) verb accuse, bring a case, bring a suit, bring accusation, bring an action against, bring charges against, bring proceedings against, bring to justice, bring to the bar, bring to trial, bring up on charges, call to account,… …

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  • 28lay — I [[t]leɪ[/t]] v. laid, lay•ing, n. 1) to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk[/ex] 2) to knock or beat down, as from an erect position; strike or throw to the ground: One punch laid him… …

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  • 29Ressentiment — (pronounced /IPA|rɛsɑ̃timɑ̃/) is a term used in Psychology and Philosophy derived from the French word ressentiment (meaning resentment : fr. Latin intensive prefix re , and sentire to feel ). Ressentiment is a sense of resentment and hostility… …

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  • 30Social psychology (psychology) — Social psychology is the scientific study of how people s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others (Allport, 1985). By this definition, scientific refers to the empirical method of… …

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