Definitions By Page And Alphabetically

PART ONE

ALPHABETICALLY BY PAGE

PAGES 1 THROUGH 36

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ANONYMOUS: giving no name, marked by lack of individuality or personality

BENEFACTOR: one that makes a gift

COMPLETE: total, absolute

DIRECTION: guidance, supervision

FELLOWSHIP: a group of people with the same interests or experiences

NIGHTMARE: an experience, situation, or object having the monstrous character of a nightmare or producing a feeling of anxiety or terror

OPINION: a belief or conclusion held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof

PROGRAM: plan of action taken toward a goal

RADICAL: extreme

RECOVERY: return to a normal state

REVISE: correct or improve

SENTIMENT: emotion

TRADITION: information, beliefs and customs handed down by each generation to the next

VERSION: a form or variant of a type or original

VOLUME: book

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PIONEER: a person or group who/that originates or helps open up a new line or thought or activity or a new method or technical development

WORK: physical or mental effort or activity

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ALCOHOLISM: compulsive us of alcoholic drinks

AVOCATION: something a person does in addition to a principle

occupation, esp. for pleasure

COMPREHEND: grasp the meaning of mentally, understand

EARNEST: a serious and intent mental state

EXPERIENCES: knowledge or skills gained by actually doing or feeling something

HANDICAPPED: at a disadvantage

OVERWHELM: to overcome by superior force, crush

URGE: strong desire to do or say something

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AFFLICTED: troubled with

DENOMINATION: a religious organization uniting in a single body, a number of congregations

FAITH: firm belief in something for which there is no proof, complete confidence, trust

SCIENTIFIC: relating or exhibiting the methods or principles of science

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AUGURY: an occurrence believed to indicate a future event

CONTINUE: go on with a particular action

FRIENDS: those attached to others by affection or esteem

MIRACLE: divine intervention in human affairs

MUSHROOMED: to spring up suddenly or multiply rapidly

OBSESSION: a compulsive, often unreasonable idea or feeling

PROMISING: likely to succeed

RELIEVE: to free from a burden

SPIRITUAL: divine

WHOLESALE: performed on a large scale

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ACCEPT: to receive into the mind

CONTACT: the state of being in communication

DEFECT: deficiency, fault, flaw

DILEMMA: unsatisfactory alternative

FEAR: alarm, dread, panic

GOD: the supreme or ultimate reality, the Being effect in power, wisdom and goodness whom men worship as creator and ruler of the universe

GRAVE: important

INVENTORY: a detailed list of things in one's view or possession

JOURNEY: something suggesting travel or passage from one place to another

MALADY: disease or disorder of the body or mind, ailment

MORAL: concerned with the principles of right and wrong behavior, correct and true, virtuous

MUST: essential

MUSTER: comprise

NATURE: the basis or essential characteristics of something

OXFORD GROUPS: nondenominational evangelical movement which flourished in the 1920's and early 30's

PERSONALITY: the organization of the individual's distinguishing character traits, attitudes, or habits

REALIZE: be fully aware

REMEDY: a cure

RESOLVE: determination

SAINT: angel

TENETS: beliefs

TENETS OF THE OXFORD GROUP: known as the "Four Absolutes" of Love, Honesty, Purity and Unselfishness

THEORY: a plausible principle used to explain something

VENTURE: an undertaking involving chance

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DESPERATE: having lost hope

FLEDGLING: immature or inexperienced

FRANTICALLY: emotionally out of control

HENCE: from this time

HENCE THE TWO MEN: Bill W. and Dr. Bob

IMMEDIATELY: now

INDICATED: hinted

PERMANENTLY: fixed and changeless

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PRESTIGE: standing or estimation in the eyes of people, influence

STRENUOUS: very active, energetic

SUFFICIENT: enough to meet the needs of a situation

VERY FIRST CASE: their very first case was Eddie R., their first successful case was Bill D. who became AA #3

VITAL: essential, of first importance

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ASTONISH: surprise

ENTITY: something that exists on its own

ERRATIC: characterized by lack of consistency, regularity, or uniformity

ERSTWHILE: former

ESTABLISH: to bring into existence, to bring about

INSTITUTION: an established organization

REVIEW: to look at or study again

TRANSMITTED: sent from one person to another, convey

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ASSET: advantage

CIRCUMSTANCE: a condition, fact, or event accompanying, conditioning, or determining another

CONVICTION: strong belief

ENDORSEMENT: approval

FUNCTION: one of a group of related actions contributing to a larger action

PRINCIPLES: basic truth's or law's

SCHISMS: separations

THERAPY: remedial treatment of bodily disorder, psychotherapy

UNITY: oneness

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ALCOHOL: C2H6O (ethyl alcohol)

DEMOCRATIC: relating to the broad masses of people

INNUMERABLE: too many to be numbered, countless

MINISTRATION: to give aid or service

RELAPSE: a return to a former condition after a change for the better

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ADMIT: acknowledge, confess, admit the truth

FREEDOM: liberty, absence of restriction

MONOPOLY: exclusive possession

POTENTIAL: capable of being but not yet in existence

RAMIFICATION: outgrowth

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BELIEVE: accepts as true or real

CYNICAL: distrustful of human nature, inclined to question the sincerity and goodness of people

EXACT: accurate and specific

PATH: way of life, conduct or thought

PROPORTION: balance

SIMPLE: not involved or complicated

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STEP: a stage in a process

STRENGTH: power

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ADDICTION: state of being given up to some habit, practice or pursuit

BASIS: basic principle

CALDRON: large kettle

CHIEF PHYSICIAN: his actual title was Medical Director at the time the letters of endorsement were written

COMPETENT: capable, skilled

CONCEPTION: a general idea or understanding

DRUG: a substance other than food taken into the body that changes its function

EXTRAORDINARY: beyond or out of the usual order or method

EXTREME: excessive degree

NATIONALLY PROMINENT HOSPITAL: Charles B. Towns Hospital, New York, NY., now an apartment building

PROMINENT: widely and popularly known

REHABILITATION: to restore to a former capacity

TESTIMONY: open acknowledgement

WELL-KNOWN DOCTOR: William Duncan Silkworth, M.D.

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ABNORMAL: not natural, not normal, different then most

ABSOLUTE: completely, unqualifiedly

ALLERGY: an abnormal reaction to a food or chemical substance

ALTRUISTIC: concern for the welfare of others as opposed to selfishness

ANNALS: history

APPROACH: preliminary steps, to draw close to, to make advances to

BEFOG: confuse

DEFECTIVE: lacking something essential to be complete

EPOCH: an event or a time that begins a new period or development

IMPENDING: about to happen

INHERENT: existing in someone or something as a natural and

inseparable quality

JITTERY: nervous, uneasy

LAYMEN: people who do not have special or advanced training or skills

LIFE: the sequence of physical and mental experiences that make up the existence of an individual

MALADJUSTED: lacking harmony with one's environment

MENTAL: relating to he mind

PHENOMENON: something known by the senses but not understood by the mind

PLANE: a level of existence, consciousness, or development

REALITY: the truth

SICKENED: causing sickness

SITUATION: problem

SOUNDNESS: correctness

THE DOCTOR: Doctor Silkworth

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CHRONIC: constantly present, frequently recurring

CONSENT: approval, agreement

CONSENTED: to give approval of what is asked, agreed

DIRECTOR: one who supervises, controls or manages

INSPIRING: having an animating or exalting effect

MISGIVING: a feeling of doubt or suspicion concerning a future event

MOTIVE: need or desire that causes one to act

PARAMOUNT: of chief concern or importance, primary, foremost

PRACTICAL: useful, not theoretical

PSYCHOLOGY: the science of mind and behavior

SYNTHETIC: produced artificially, manmade

ULTRA-MODERN: the very latest

URGENT: calling for immediate attention

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ASTONISH: surprise

CRAVING: an abnormal desire, a great desire or longing

DEFINITE: clear, precise

DESPAIR: to lose all hope

DESPAIRING: devoid of hope

DIFFERENTIATE: recognize a difference

ELUSIVE: evasive, hard to comprehend or define

FINITE: having limited boundaries

FIRING LINE: the forefront of an activity

FROTHY: something unsubstantial or of little value

HABIT: manner of conducting oneself

HUMAN: of, relating to or, characteristic of man, have human form or attributes

IDEALS: standards of perfection

MANIFESTATION: perceptible outward or visible expressions

MAXIMUM: the greatest or most

PSYCHOLOGICAL: pertaining to psychology (mind and behavior)

PSYCHOLOGISTS: those trained in psychology (the science of mind and behavior)

RELIANCE: dependence

SELF-CONFIDENCE: trust in oneself or one's abilities

SENSATION: awareness

SUFFICES: to be enough or adequate

TEMPERATE: exercising moderation and self-restraint

TRAGEDIES: dramatic, disastrous events

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AGGREGATE: the sum total

CRIED OUT: begged

DOOMED: condemned to an unhappy destiny

ESSENTIAL: of the utmost importance, indispensable, necessary

FRANTIC: emotionally out of control

HONEST: free from fraud or deception

IMPUNITY: without punishment, harm or loss

INADEQUACY: insufficient

PSYCHIATRIC: the mental study, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mental illness

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PSYCHIC: pertaining to the mind

PSYCHIC CHANGE: a hugh emotional displacement and rearrangement of ideas, emotions, and attitudes, a personality change

REMORSEFUL: feeling distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs

RESOLUTION: a strong vow or promise

RESPOND: react favorably

SINCERE: honest

SPREE: a drinking bout

SUCCUMBED: to give way to superior force, yield

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ABSTINENCE: willful avoidance of pleasure, especially of food and drink

DECISION: a choice of action chosen

DISTINCT: distinguished as not being the same, not identical

ENVIRONMENT: the circumstances, objects, or conditions by which one is surrounded

ERADICATED: done away with completely

INTELLIGENT: the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will

MANIC-DEPRESSIVE: having a mental disorder marked by excitation and depression

PRECIPITATES: causes to happen

PSYCHOPATHS: those with a personality disorder, especially one manifested in aggressively antisocial behavior

SACRIFICE: give up for the sake of something else

SCOPE: the range of one's perception, thought or action

SEETHING: violent internal excitement

SYMPTOM: evidence of disease

UNSTABLE: tending strongly to change, not constant, fluctuating

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A MAN: Henry P., author of the story The Unbeliever in the 1st edition

ANOTHER CASE: Fitz M., author of the story Our Southern Friend in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd editions

DETERIORATES: becomes worse

DETERIORATION: impair

DIAGNOSIS: identifying a disease

DOUBT: distrust

FRANKLY: free and forthright in expressing one's feelings and opinions, outspoken

GASTRIC HEMORRHAGE: bleeding pertaining to the stomach

IMPULSE: a sudden urge

PATHOLOGICAL: characterized by an unhealthy compulsion

SELF-RELIANCE: dependence upon one's own capabilities of judgement or resources

TREMBLING: shaking involuntarily from fear or anxiety

WILL POWER: strong determination

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PRAY: to address God

SCOFF: to show or treat with contempt by derisive acts or language

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SPECIMEN: an individual item or part representative of a class or whole

WISH: have a desire for

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APPLAUSE: approval publicly expressed

DOGGEREL: verse that is loosely styled and irregular in measure, used especially for burlesque or comic effect

ENTERPRISES: business organizations

EXCITEMENT: aroused feelings

FANCIED: imagined

HEAD: to set the course of

HEROIC: exhibiting courage and daring

HILARIOUS: cheerful, boisterous, funny

LOVE: concern

OMINOUS: foretelling evil, threatening

PLATTSBURCH: New York

POT: to drink an intoxicating beverage from a pot

PREJUDICES: opinions adverse to anything without just grounds or

before sufficient knowledge is obtained, resentments handed down

SUBLIME: lofty, grand, splendid

UTMOST: extreme

VAST: huge

WAR FEVER: nervousness, restless excitement

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ALLOY: mixture

CONCEIVE: originate

DERIVE: to obtain from a specified source

ECONOMIC: relating to monetary matters

FOREBODINGS: a dark sense of impending evil, an evil omen

FORGE: to form or bring into being especially by an expenditure of effort

IGNORANCE: the state of being uniformed

INVESTIGATOR: a person making a systematic examination

MAELSTROM: a tumultuous state of affairs

MAJESTIC: grand

MODESTLY: placing a moderate estimate on one's abilities or worth

PERSUADE: move by argument to a belief, position, or course of action, induce, urge

PHILOSOPHIC: characterizing a philosopher, enlightened, wise,

thoughtful

SIDECAR: a one-wheeled car for a single passenger, attached to the side of a motorcycle

SPECULATION: assuming a business risk in hope of gain

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ASSUME: to take to or upon oneself

EXERCISE: something performed or practiced in order to develop or improve

EXHILARATING: cheerful or jolly, filled with a lively sense of well-being

HOST: a very large number

INFIDELITY: marital unfaithfulness

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LUNACY: unsoundness of mind, insanity, great foolishness, e e extreme folly

OPTIONAL: not compulsory

PROCURED: got possession of, obtained, brought about, achieved

REMONSTRANCES: speeches or gestures of protest, opposition or

reproof

SCRAPES: quarrels

SERVICE: contributions to the welfare of others, a helpful act

SUMPTUOUS: expensive, luxurious

TERMINATED: brought to an end or halt, concluded, finished

WALTER HAGEN: professional golfer of the 1920s

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ABRUPT: unexpectedly, suddenly

AWE: submissive and admiring fear inspired by authority or power

CAROM: collide with a rebound, glance

ELBA & ST. HELENA: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) was exiled to the island of Elba, he escaped and returned to power, exiled again--permanently--to the island of St. Helena after his defeat at the battle of Waterloo

FRIEND IN MONTREAL: Dick Johnson

HELL: a place or state of torment or wickedness, a generalized term of abuse

IMPECCABLE: without fault, faultless

INFERNO: a place or a state that resembles or suggests hell

INSPIRED: influenced, moved, or guided by divine inspiration

LOOSE: free from restraint

SKEPTICISM: a doubting or questioning attitude or state of mind, disbelief

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APPALLING: inspiring horror, dismay, or disgust

BATHTUB GIN: homemade alcohol

BENDER: a drinking spree

CRAZY: insane

LUXURY: great ease or comfort

PERSPECTIVE: the power to see or think of things in their true relationship to each other

PRODIGIOUS BENDER: enormous drinking, spree

PROMISES: grounds for expectations

TUMBLER: a drinking glass without foot or stem

VANISH: disappear or become invisible

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CALAMITY: a major misfortune or loss, disaster

COLLAPSE: to break down completely

CONFIDENCE: trust

GIN MILLS: drinking establishments, bars

REMORSE: gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs

SASH: a fixed or movable framework

SLENDER: limited or inadequate in amount, meager

SOUGHT: tried to find, searched

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TERROR: state of intense fear

WRITHING: twisting and turning this way and that (writhe in pain)

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ASYLUM: an institution for the care of the mentally ill

BALMY: foolish, insane

BEHAVIOR: how someone acts

BELLADONNA TREATMENT: belladonna is the name of a sedative, used for the relief of muscle spasms, especially in the gastrointestinal tact, no longer a standard medical treatment

COCKSURENESS: overconfidence

DELIRIUM: a mental disturbance characterized by confusion, disordered speech and hallucinations

DELIRIUM TREMENS: a violent delirium with tremens that is induced by excessive and prolonged use of alcoholic liquors, called D.T.'s

DEVASTATE: bring to ruin, overwhelm

FARED: traveled

GOOSE HUNG HIGH: a period of good times

HYDROTHERAPY: the use of water in the treatment of disease

INCREDIBLE: too extraordinary to be believed

KIND DOCTOR: William Duncan Silkworth, M.D.

MY BROTHER-IN-LAW: a physician, Dr. Leonard Strong

OBLIVION: being forgotten

SANITY: whole or sound mind

SEDATIVE: a drug that calms or eases tension

SELFISH: concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself

WET BRAIN: brain damage caused by drinking

WILL: strong desire

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AMEND: the correction of an injury or mistake

ARMISTICE DAY: a holiday celebrated on Nov. 11th from 1919 to 1971 to commemorate the end of World War I on Nov 11, 1918, renamed "Veterans's Day" in 1954, celebrated now on the fourth Monday in October

BITTER: distasteful or distressing to the mind

CATAPULT: to throw or launch

DEBAUCH: extreme intemperance

FOURTH DIMENSION: something outside ordinary experience

HAPPINESS: a state of well-being, contentment, joy

INSANITY: not whole of mind

INSIDIOUS: harmful but enticing, treacherous, seductive

LONELINESS: without companions, dejected by the awareness of being alone

MORASS: something that traps or impedes

MUSING: thinking, contemplation

OBSTACLES: things that stands in the way of progress toward some

goal

OLD SCHOOL FRIEND: Edwin "Ebby" Thatcher

PEACE: quiet, harmony in personal relations

PITY: sympathetic sorrow for one suffering, distressed or

unhappiness

PLUNGE: to act with reckless haste

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PRIDE: self-resect

QUICKSAND: a bed of loose sand mixed with water forming a soft,

shifting mass that yields easily to pressure and tends to suck down any object resting on its surface

REFLECT: to think quietly and calmly, consider

RESIGN: to give up deliberately

SELF-PITY: dwelling on one's sorrows or misfortunes

SOTS: chronic drunkards

STUMBLE: to fall in sin or waywardness

SURMOUNT: surpass or exceed in amount, overcome, conquer

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AGHAST: struck with overwhelming shock or amazement

ALCOHOLIC INSANITY: the name commonly used prior to the mid-20th century for the illness of alcoholism

AMAZE: surprise, astonish

COMMITMENT: forced confinement

FUTILITY: uselessness, without purpose

INEXPLICABLY: incapable of being explained

JAG: a bout or spree

OASIS: a small place preserved from surrounding unpleasantness, a refuge

PRACTICAL PROGRAM OF ACTION: recovery steps four through twelve

PROGRAM OF ACTION: steps four through twelve

QUERY: a question

RANTING: violent, loud, vehement

RELIGIOUS: the way someone worships God

RUMOR: unverified information of uncertain origin, usually spread by word of mouth, gossip, hearsay

SIMPLE RELIGIOUS IDEA: step two

STARRY-EYED: characterized by dreamy thinking

TWO MEN: Rowland H., sober in 1932, and Cebra G., both were members of the New York Oxford Group

WELFARE: the state of doing well especially in respect to good fortune, happiness, well-being, or property

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AIMLESSLY: without direction

ATHEIST: a person who believes there is no God

CIPHER: nonentity

CONTEMPT: lack of respect for something

CONTRARY: opposite

DENIAL: refusal to admit the truth or reality

IMMUTABLE: not subject to change or alteration

INTELLECTUAL: rational rather than emotional

INTELLIGENCE: knowledge

MINISTER: one officiating or assisting at a church or religious service

PERSONAL: relating to an individual or his character

PLEDGE: a biding promise or agreement to do something

PROFFERED: suggested

PROPOSITION: point to be discussed

SPHERES: social order

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SPIRIT OF THE UNIVERSE: God

TEMPERANCE PLEDGE: a promise to abstain from drinking

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ADOPT: to accept formally and put into effect

CHICANERY: trickery

CONCEDE: acknowledge as true, admit

DEVIL: the chief evil spirit, a supernatural being subordinate to, and the foe of God, Satan

DRASTIC: especially severe

FACILITATED: made easier

GRIM: sinister

JEST: prank

NEGLIGIBLE: so small so as not to merit attention, trifling

OBVIOUSLY: easily seen

POINT-BLANK: clearly, directly

SCRAP HEAP: left over and unwanted, worthless, junk in a pile

TIDINGS: information, news (tidings of great joy)

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ANTIPATHY: a strong feeling of aversion or opposition

AROUSE: rouse to action, stir up

BLOTTED OUT: wiped out

FOOTING: a stable position

GRASPED: took hold of, intellectually comprehended

HUMBLE: not proud, arrogant, or assertive

INTENSIFIED: strengthen, sharpened

NOVEL: new and not resembling something formerly known or used

SCALES: impediments to seeing rightly

SIGNIFICANCE: importance

SWAY: controlling influence

THUS: because of this or that

VESTIGES: visible traces, evidence or signs of something that has once existed but exists or appears no more

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CLAMOR: to utter or proclaim insistently and noisy

COMMON SENSE: the unreflective opinions of ordinary men

CONSCIOUSNESS: awareness of something

CREATOR: God

DEFICIENCIES: defects, inadequacies

FOUNDATION: the fundamental principle on which something is founded, basis

HONESTY: fairness and straight forwardness of conduct

HUMILITY: the quality or state of being humble

HUMBLED: made not proud, arrogant, or assertive

HUMBLY: lacking pride, aware of one's shortcomings

NOT HAD A DRINK SINCE: Bill Wilson's sobriety date is December 11, 1934

RESENTMENT: ill will felt because of a real or imagined wrong

WORLDLY: of, relating to, or devoted to this world and its pursuits

WRONG: harm done others

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DESTITUTION: poverty

ELECTRIC: producing an intensely stimulating effect, thrilling

EMPHASIZE: give special consideration to, place emphasis on

HANG: to take hold for support

PROFOUND: deep-seated

PROPOSALS: suggestions

REVOLUTIONARY: radial, extreme

SAFE: free from harm or risk

SANE: able to anticipate appraise the effect of one's actions

SELF-CENTEREDNESS: selfishness

SERENITY: total calmness, tranquility

UTTER: complete, absolute

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ABANDON: give up

BITTERNESS: painful resentment

DESIGN FOR LIVING: way of life

DOMESTIC: of or relating to the household or the family

ENTHUSIASM: a strong excitement of feeling

ENVIRONS: surroundings

FEUDS: prolonged quarrels

ONE WESTERN CITY: Cleveland, Ohio

PLAGUED: afflicted

SELF-SACRIFICE: sacrifice of oneself or one's interests for others or for a cause or a idea

SKEPTICAL: doubtful

SPOT: a position usually of difficulty or embarrassment

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APPROXIMATE: nearly correct or exact

CHAP: man, fellow

CUPS: drunk

LEVITY: lacing in seriousness

LIABILITIES: pecuniary obligations

NO AXES TO GRIND: not for selfish purposes

ONE POOR CHAP: Bill C., a lawyer, committed suicide in summer of 1936, lived with them for over a year

TRAGIC: calamity

UTOPIA: any ideal place or state

VARIOUSLY: in various ways

WORLDLINESS: lack of interest or concern with present existence

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CAMARADERIE: good feeling existing between comrades

CAPTAIN'S TABLE: head table for the well to do

COMMON PERIL: same danger

COMMON SOLUTION: the same or shared answer to a problem

DEMOCRACY: the absence of hereditary or arbitrary class

distinctions or privileges

DISASTER: a terrible misfortune

HARMONIOUS: marked by accord in sentiment or action

NORMALLY: naturally

PERVADE: to become diffused throughout every part of

STEERAGE: worst part of the ship

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ACCOMPLISH: achieve

ANNIHILATION: to reduce to utter ruin or nonexistence, destroy utterly

ATTITUDE: mental position or state of mind

DEPORTMENT: conduct, behavior

ENGULFS: overwhelms

HOLIER THAN THOU: an attitude of feeling superior, spiritually pure

ILLNESS: an unhealthy condition of body or mind

INSECURITY: uncertainty, instability

INTIMATE: very personal or private

LECTURES: reprimands

PROSPECT: candidate deemed likely to succeed, potential buyer

WARPED: distorted

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CONCLUDE: to bring to an end, finish

CONTENTION: a point advanced or maintained in a debate or argument

CONTROVERSIAL: debatable

SHORTCOMINGS: deficiencies, flaws, faults

TAKE UP THEIR BEDS: get sober

TOLERANCE: allowing or respecting the beliefs or behavior of others

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COMMON PLACE: having to do with, belonging to, or used by everybody

CONSTANT: continually, all the time

IMPAIR: to make worse by

MODERATE: observing reasonable limits

REACTIONS: responses

SPECIFIC: exact

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ABSURD: ridiculous, unreasonable

ANTI-SOCIAL: contrary or hostile to the well-being of society

APTITUDE: innate ability, talent

DISHONEST: lacking truth

DISPOSITION: temperamental makeup

DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE: becoming two different people

GETTING TIGHT: drinking too much

OPERATIVE: influence

OUTLOOK: point of view

SENSIBLE: reasonable, wise

TIGHT: drunk

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ATTENDANT: accompanying

COMPREHENSIVE: covering completely

DEBACLE: complete failure, disaster or fiasco

HUMILIATION: to reduce to a lower position in one's own eyes or other's eyes

MORPHINE: a bitter, white, crystalline, habit-forming drug made from opium

REACT: act or behave in response to something

SANITARIUMS: places for the care of the chronically ill

VIRTUALLY: for all practical purpose

WATER WAGON: abstaining from alcoholic beverages

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ABUNDANT: marked by plenty

ACADEMIC: not practical, abstract

ALIBI: an excuse, esp. to avoid blame

ASSERT: to state or declare positively and often forcefully or aggressively

BAFFLE: confuse, bewilder

BOUTS: sessions

DOWN FOR THE COUNT: defeated (boxing term)

FALLACIOUS: containing a fallacy, logically unsound

HAVOC: wide and general destruction

LETHARGY: abnormal drowsiness, laziness, indifference

LOT: a number of associated persons

PHILOSOPHY: belief, attitude, overall vision or attitude

PLAUSIBILITY: worthiness, reasonableness

REASONING: ability to think

ROUSE: to awaken or get active

ROUSE HIMSELF: to awaken or get active

TRUTH: actually

VAGUE: not clearly defined, grasped, or understood

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AVAIL: profit

CASUAL: informal

CONSEQUENCE: result

LEGIONS: very large numbers

LEGIONS OF ALCOHOLICS: a lot of alcoholics

NO AVAIL: no use or advantage

NONCHALANT: unconcerned, easy

OBSCURE: not readily understood or not clearly expressed

STARK: strong

SUPPLANTED: to take the place of

TENDENCIES: drift

THREADBARE IDEA: ineffectively stale

UGLY: quarrelsome

WON'T BURN ME: will not hurt me or get me drunk

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ALTERNATIVE: choice

CONSUMMATION: finish, completion

INTOLERABLE: not tolerable, excessive

MIDDLE OF-THE-ROAD: between two extremes

MIRACULOUS: supernatural, of divine origin

REVOLUTIONIZED: changed fundamentally or completely

SIMPLE KIT OF SPIRITUAL TOOLS: the twelve steps

SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE: a hugh emotional displacement and rearrangement of ideas, emotions, and attitudes, a personality change which occurs suddenly, quickly, sudden awareness of a higher power or God

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A CERTAIN AMERICAN BUSINESS MAN: Rowland H.

CHARACTER: personality in action

CONSULT: ask for advice or opinion

DR. JUNG: celebrated psychiatrist from Zurich, Switzerland

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FLOUNDERED: ineffectually, in a confused manner

RATIONAL: having reason or understanding

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DISPLACEMENTS: removal from the usual or proper place

DOMINATE: control

EMOTIONS: feelings

PHENOMENA: things known through the senses but not understood by the mind

REARRANGE: change into a new and proper order

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AGNOSTIC: a person who believes that God is unknown and probably unknowable

COLOR: skin pigmentation other than white characteristic of race

CREED: a brief authoritative formula or religious belief

DESPERATION: giving up hope

DISTINGUISHED: marked as separate or different

EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIENCE: 1932

RACE: a class of people or kind of people unified by community of interests, habits, or characteristics

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DELUSION: a false belief held as a result of self-deception

DEMORALIZATION: discouragement

ILLUSION: something that misleads or deceives

INCOMPREHENSIBLE: incapable of being understood

INEVITABLY: incapable of being avoided

PERSIST: press on resolutely or stubbornly in spite of opposition, importunity, or warnings

PITIFUL: deserving pity

VAIN: foolish, silly

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AD INFINITUM: without end or limit

DECEPTION: a state of being misled

INABILITY: lack of means or ability

INSPIRATIONAL: having divine influence

SELF-DECEPTION: the act of deceiving oneself

SOLEMN: marked by the invocation of a religious sanction

SOLEMN OATH: serious promise to fulfill a pledge

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DISCIPLINE: orderly or prescribed conduct or pattern of behavior

DRY: not drinking

HUMILIATED: lowered in pride, dignity or status, disgraced

SELF-DISCIPLINE: correction or regulation of oneself for the sake

of improvement

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DISPOSAL: use

GRAVELY: likely to produce great harm

IMMUNE: free, exempt

LURKING: laying in ambush, hidden

NOTION: belief

PECULIAR: different from the usual or normal

RESERVATION: the setting of limiting conditions

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ROBUST: having vigorous health

TWIST: distort, perverted

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ASSUMING: taking to be true

MODERATELY: avoiding extremes

SCANT: meager or inadequate

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AFFECTION: fond attachments

CONSTERNATION: sudden confusion, amazement or frustration

CRUX: basic or essential thing

DIVORCE: separation

LUCRATIVE: profitable

MYSTIFIED: bewildered

PRECEDE: go in advance of, go before

REASONED: thought logically

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REASSURED: restored to confidence

VAGUELY: not clearly

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ANGER: strong displeasure, rage, wrath, fury

FAR-FETCHED: improbable

INSUFFICIENT: inadequate, not good enough

INTENSE: existing in an extreme degree

JEALOUSY: envious resentment against a successful rival

JUSTIFICATION: warrant, having sufficient cause

MENTAL TWIST: unexplainable thinking

OBLIGED: forced

PASSION: a strong liking

PREMEDITATION: plotting in advance

QUEER: differing in some odd way from what is usual or normal, mildly insane

TRIVIAL: of little worth or importance

WORRY: fear, anxiety

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MEND: correct

RIDICULE: make fun of

SUBSTITUTE: a person or thing that takes the place of another

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DEPRESSED: in low spirits, dejected

INTIMATED: hinted

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APPRECIATE: value or admire highly

SHAKY: lacking stability

SUBTLE: difficult to understand, crafty

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HIGHBALL: a drink of alcohol and water or a carbonated beverage

LANDING FIELD: where planes land

PROPHESIED: predicted

SHADOWY: faintly

THRESHOLD: the plank, stone, or piece of timber that lies under a door

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INTELLECTUALLY: developed or chiefly guided by the intellect rather than by emotion or experience

NOMINAL: not in practice but in name only

SPIRITUAL ANSWER: step three

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CONCLUSION: a reasoned judgment

DIVINE: of, relating to, or proceeding directly from God

HEARTBREAKING: causing anguish of mind, sorrow

INFINITE: having no boundaries or limits

MANGLED: deeply injured

MANNER: the way in which a thing is done or happens

PLIGHT: a distressing condition or situation

STAFF MEMBER: Dr. Percy Polick, a psychiatrist

WORLD-RENOWNED HOSPITAL: Bellevue Hospital, New York

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CODE: a system of principles or rules

CONQUER: to overcome or be victorious

DISCONCERTED: thrown into confusion

DISTINCTION: differentiation

MORALS: teachings governing right thought or behavior

VARIETY: something differing from others of the same general kind

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ANTI-RELIGIOUS: opposed to religion

EVADED: avoided facing up to

INADEQUATE: insufficient

MARSHALLED: brought together

RESOURCES: sources of supply or support, available means

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ASKANCE: with distrust

COWARDLY: lacking courage

ENCHANTED: influenced, attracted

FORBIDDING: to make approach or passage difficult or impossible

OTHER SIMPLE STEPS: steps four through twelve

REALM: possibility of

TEMPERAMENT: makeup, the combination of mental and emotional traits of a person

THEOLOGICAL: the study and interpretation of God and of religious beliefs, faiths, practices and experiences

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ARTICLE: a member of a class of things

CONSCIOUS: known or felt by one's inner self

CORNERSTONE: foundation

EMPHATICALLY: marked with emphasis

RELATION: the state of being mutually or reciprocally interested

SPIRITUAL STRUCTURE: the twelve steps

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ACCEPTANCE: the act of assenting or believing

ANTAGONISM: actively expressed opposition, hostility, or antipathy

ASSUMPTION: taken for granted

BRISTLE: to take on a aggressive attitude

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ELECTRICITY: power consisting of negative and positive composed

respectively of electrons and protons

ELECTRONS: an elementary particle consisting of a charge of negative electricity

MASS OF ELECTRONS: a group of particles charged with negative electricity

MURMUR: soft or low sound

OBSTINACY: stubbornness

PROSAIC: dull, unimaginative

SENSITIVENESS: hypersensitive

STARTING POINT: where work or activity begins

STEEL GIRDER: a horizontal part of a structure that supports a vertical load

STICKLER: one who exists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something

TEDIOUS: tiresome because of length

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ALPHA AND THE OMEGA: the beginning and the end

CYNICALLY: distrustfully

DISSECT: separate into pieces, cutting apart

DUBIOUS: questionable, doubtful

FRAILTY: a fault resulting from moral weakness

INDULGE: take pleasure in

LABORIOUSLY: with great effort

LOGICAL: reasonable, valid

ORGANIZED RELIGION: coordinated worship

PERVERSE: arising from or indicative of stubbornness

SPEARHEADS: leading elements, forces, or influence in an undertaking

STABILITY: not changing, steadiness

VISUAL PROOF: evidence that can be seen

WINDY: lacking substance

WORDY: containing many and usually too many words

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AMERICAN STATESMAN: Alfred E. "Al" Smith, four time governor of New York and unsuccessful first Roman Catholic Presidential candidate in 1928

CONDEMNATION: blame, to express an unfavorable or adverse judgment on

DIVERTED: turned aside

FLATLY: absolutely

INTOLERANCE: unwillingness to allow or respect the beliefs or

behavior of others

WHOLEHEARTEDLY: completely and sincerely

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ASTRONOMICAL: relating to the stars, planets and other bodies in the sky

BIASED: prejudiced

COLUMBUS: Christopher Columbus Italian navigator who discovered America

CONTEMPORARY: one of the same or nearly the same age

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FETTERED: confined or restrained

GALILEO: Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Italian astronomer

HERESIES: opinions contrary to accepted beliefs

INTELLECT: capacity for knowledge

MILLENNIUMS: periods of 1,000 years

PREPOSTEROUS: absurd, senseless, foolish

SUPERSTITION: a belief or practice resulting from ignorance

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BEDEVILMENT: bewilderment, to cause confusion or doubt in, muddle, confound

CONQUEST: something conquered

LIBERATION: release

LONGSHOREMAN: a person who works on a waterfront loading and unloading ships

LUNAR: of or pertaining to the moon

MAINSPRING: the chief or most powerful motive or cause

PREY: one that is helpless or unable to resist attack

SWING: flourish

USELESSNESS: not valuable or productive

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ATTRIBUTE: an inherent characteristic

DUCK: avoid, evade

FLAGGING: weak, dwindling

LEANING: a definite but not decisive attraction

LOGIC: formal principles of reasoning

LUSTRE: shine, glow

MUSHY: weak

POSTPONE: putting off to a later time, delay

SENSES: conscious awareness

SELF-IMPOSED: voluntarily assumed

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ABJECT: existing in a low state or condition

BEHELD: gazed upon

MENTAL GOOSE-FLESH: state of fear

WORSHIPPED: extravagant respect or admiration for or devotion to an object of esteem

WORSHIPPERS: people showing extravagant respect

WRIGHT BROTHERS: American pioneers in aviation

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ANALYSIS: a critical examination

BROAD HIGHWAY: a wide, open, all-inclusive course or way

DILIGENTLY: using steady effort

DRAMATIC: striking in effect

EMANATE: originate

EXPERIENCE OF A MAN: Fitz M., author of the story Our Southern Friend in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd editions

FUNDAMENTAL: basic or primary

MAKE-UP: the way something is put together

POMP: splendor

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BARRIER: something that impede or separates

COMPANIONSHIP: fellowship

DISILLUSIONMENT: disenchantment, disappointment

DOGGED: faltering

EMBITTER: to make bitter

FRUSTRATE: to induce feelings of discouragement

GORGE: a strong feeling of dislike or distaste

MAJESTY: authority

OVERDOSE OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: excessive or forced religious training

PONDERING: thinking

REBELLIOUS: defiant, opposing

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: learning the service and worship of God

SELF-DESTRUCTION: destruction of oneself

THUNDERBOLT: a thing that resembles lightning in suddenness

VICISSITUDE: any of one's ups and downs

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RESTORED: to bring back to a former or normal condition

REVELATION: communicating divine truth, something revealed by God to man

REVULSION: strong distaste

TEMPTATION: being lured to do wrong

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BALK: to stop short and refuse to proceed

COMMAND: to exercise a dominating influence over

CONSTITUTIONALLY: of or proceeding from the basic structure or nature of a person or thing

CUNNING: crafty, tricky

FAULT: responsible, open to blame

INCAPABLE: lacking strength, ability or power

NIL: nothing, naught, zero

RARELY: not often, seldom, infrequently

RIGOROUS: severely exact, precise

UNFORTUNATES: unsuccessful or unsuitable people

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MEDITATION: serious contemplation or reflection, listening for directions

POWERLESS: lacking strength or power, helpless

PRAYER: any act or communication with God

PROGRAM OF RECOVERY: asking His protection and care with compete abandon

UNMANAGEABLE: having trouble with personal relationships, can't

control emotional natures, prey to misery and depression, h h having a feeling of uselessness, full of fear and unhappiness, can't seem to be of real help to others

WRONGS: resentments (wrong judgements), (fears) wrong believing, wrong actions (harms done to others)

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ADHERENCE: faithfulness, sticking to

AWAKENING: consciousness or awareness

BALLET: a group that performs ballets, dancing

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PERTINENT: very significant or important

SELF-PROPULSION: propulsion by one's own power

SELF-WILL: stubborn or willful adherence to one's own desires or ideas

SPIRITUAL AWAKENING: a hugh emotional displacement and rearrangement of ideas, emotions, and attitudes, a personality change which occurs slowly, gradually over time

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CONSIDERATE: taking into account the view of another's circumstances

EGO-CENTRIC: thinking or acting with the view that one's self is the center

EGOTISTICAL: devoted to one's own interest and advancements

EXERT: to put forth

GRACIOUS: kind and courteous

INDIGNANT: anger caused by an unjust act

LOLLS: lounges

MODEST: neither bold nor self-assertive

RETALIATE: to get revenge

REFORMER: one who urges a person to abandon irresponsible or immoral practices

SELF-CENTERED: concerned solely with one's own desires, needs, or

interests

SELF-SEEKER: practicing the act or practice of selfishly advancing one's own ends

TRAITS: distinguishing qualities

VIRTUOUS: morally excellent, righteous, pure

WREST: to gain by determined labor

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ARCH: gateway

CONCEPT: thought

DRAMA: dramatic state

GALORE: plenty

INVARIABLY: constantly

KEYSTONE: something on which associated things depend for support

PROTESTATIONS: objections, disapproval

PROVOCATION: the act of stifling or inciting to action

RIOT: profligate behavior

SELF: an individual's typical character or behavior

SELF-DELUSION: tricking or lying to oneself

SELF-SEEKING: pursuing only for oneself

SELFISHNESS: concern chiefly or only with oneself

TRIUMPHANT: victorious, conquering

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BONDAGE: subjected to any force, power or influence

DESIGN: to have a purpose, intentions

LAUNCHED: to throw oneself energetically

REBORN: born again, emotionally or spiritually revived or regenerated

REMARKABLE: noticeable

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SPIRITUAL STEP: step three

VIGOROUS: strong

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AMBITION: goal

CRUCIAL: essential

DISEASE: any harmful condition

FLAWS: weakness's

MANIFESTED: shown or demonstrated plainly

OFFENDER: that which causes dislike or anger

OUR POCKETBOOK: supply of money, financial resources

SELF-ESTEEM: satisfaction with oneself

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APPARENT: clear

BURNED: worn out by improper use

GRUDGE: a deep-seated resentment

NAG: complain, to be a continuing source of annoyance

PADDING: expanding or increasing with needless or fraudulent matter

SECURITY: freedom from risk or danger, safety

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BRAINSTORM: a sudden inspiration idea, or plan

GROUCH: a habitually complaining or irritable person

HARBORING: holding on to thoughts or feelings

MAINTENANCE: upkeep

MASTERED: controlled

SQUANDER: to spend wastefully or extravagantly

TRIUMPH: a notable success

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ASPECT: a particular status or phase in which something appears or may be regarded

CORRODING: slowly weakening

EVIL: wicked

FABRIC: structure

MISFORTUNE: the ensuing unhappy situation

OFFENDED: to cause dislike or anger

PATIENCE: an understanding of a trying situation or person

RESOLUTELY: marked by firm determination

RETALIATION: revenge

TRAINS: a series of parts or elements that together constitute a system of producing a result

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APOLOGIZE: admitting an error or discourtesy accompanied by an expression of regret

COCKY: boldly free and forward, conceited

LUST: craving, intense sexual desire

OVERHAULING: repairs

PARADOXICALLY: seemingly contradictory but true

PROCREATION: reproduce

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ARBITER: one chosen or appointed to judge or decide a disputed issue

BEWAIL: to express deep sorrow

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COUNSEL: advise

CONTROVERSY: dispute, quarrel

DESPISE: scorn, condemn

FARE: activities

FLAVOR: something that adds to or enhances

INCONSIDERATE: careless of the rights or feelings of others, thoughtless

LOATHED: disliked greatly, detested

MOLD: form into shape

SCHOOL: persons who hold a common doctrine or follow the same teacher

SUSPICION: doubt or distrust, a feeling that something is wrong without definite evidence

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ANALYZE: examine critically

FANATICAL: excessive, very intense

FATALITY: deadliness

GUIDANCE: advice, direction, leadership

HEARTACHE: anguish of mind, sorrow

HYSTERICAL: very emotional

IMPERATIVE: mandatory

IMPERIOUS: domineering, overbearing, commanding

QUESTIONABLE SITUATION: doubtful activity

THEORIZING: speculating

YIELD: to give up

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CHUNK: a large amount

DIGEST: absorb or assimilate mentally

GROSSER: glaringly noticeable

HANDICAPS: a disadvantage that makes progress or success more

difficult

SWALLOWED: taken in mentally

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ASCERTAIN: to find out or learn with certainly

HUMBLING: lowered in pride, importance or dignity

RECONCILED: made friendly again, settled

SELF-APPRAISAL: the act of determining the value of self

SOLITARY: going alone

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EGOISM: valuing everything only in reference to one's personal interest

EPISODES: incidents, events

HUMBLED: made not proud, arrogant, or assertive

PERSEVERED: persisted in spite of discouragement

REPUTATION: overall quality or character as seen or judged by others

REVOLTED: disgusted

SYMPATHETIC: feeling compassion

TREMBLES: to be affected with fear

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ACQUAINTANCE: a person one knows

CONFIDENTIAL: secret

ENCOUNTER: come upon, meet unexpectedly

ESTABLISHED RELIGION: denominations that have existed for a long

time

INTIMATE AND CONFIDENTIAL STEP: step five

ORDAINED: to establish by appointment with ministerial or priestly authority

SUITABLE: appropriate, fitting, becoming

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CRANNY: an obscure nook or corner

ILLUMINATING: throwing light on, revealing

MORTAR: building material

SKIMPED: to give insufficient or barely sufficient attention or effort to

WALK A FREE MAN: free from bondage of self

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ACCUMULATE: to increase in quality or number

BIDDING: work

CLING: to hold on to

DEFECT OF CHARACTER: deficiencies, faults, flaws of character

DIFFIDENT: hesitant in acting or speaking though lack of self- confidence

INDISPENSABLE: absolutely necessary, essential

OBJECTIONABLE: displeasing, offensive

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ARGUE: to give reasons for or against something

BIT: something that curbs or restrains

BORE: a dull or monotonous person

BRANDED: marked with disapproval

CRITICIZE: stress someone's faults

FANATICS: people with excessive enthusiasm and intense uncritical

devotion

INJUSTICE: wrong

SHYING: drawing away from

SMARTS: endures sharp distress

TACT: the proper thing to say or to do to avoid giving offense

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CRIMINAL: wrongdoing, infraction, misdeed, forbidden by law

FRANK: free and forthright in expressing one's feelings and opinions, outspoken

GRATIFIED: pleased or satisfied

NO BONES: no excuses

OFFENSE: wrongdoing, infraction, misdeed

PRAISE: to express a favorable judgement

RUTHLESS: cruel, merciless

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ALIMONY: an allowance made to one's spouse by the other for support or after legal separation or divorce

CREDITOR: person to whom money or dues are due

FURIOUS: extremely angry

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MARTYR: one who sacrifices his life or something of great value for the sake of principle

PIT: hell

REPARATION: a repairing or keeping in repair, the act of making amends for wrongs done

SHRINK: to be shy or reluctant to do something

WARRANT: a precept or writ issued by a competent magistrate authorizing an officer to make an arrest, justify

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DISCREDITING: hurting someone's reputation

DISGRACE: humiliate

EXONERATING: clearing from accusation or blame

IMPLICATE: involve

RIVAL: to be in competition with

RUINOUS: destructive

SLANDER: a false statement that damages another's reputation

SUBSEQUENTLY: following in time, order, or place; succeeding

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COMPLICATE: to make complex or difficult

LITERALLY: characterized by a concern mainly with facts

UNCOMMUNICATIVE: not inclined to talk, reserved

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APPRAISE: to evaluate the worth, significance, or status

BY-GONES: those gone by in the past

COMPLICATION: difficulty

CYCLONE: tornado

FRANKNESS: marked by free, forthright, and sincere expression

GENERALSHIP: leadership

ROARING: extremely

TURMOIL: a state of commotion or disturbance

UPROOTED: removed completely

VENT: express, release

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CRAWL: approach in a slave-like manner

FILL THE BILL: correct a wrong

GLARING: painfully and obtrusively obvious

INCESSANTLY: continuously

KINDLINESS: be gentle and helpful

MUMBLE: to utter words in a low confused indistinct manner

MUMBLING: uttering words in a low confused, indistinct manner

PHASE: stage, part

RECONSTRUCTION: rebuilding, making over

RESPONSIBLE: answerable, accountable

SCRAPING: bowing low

SERVILE: behaving like a slave or an inferior

SKEPTIC: one who instinctively or habitually doubts, questions, or disagrees with assertions or generally accepted conclusions

TACTFUL: knowing what to say or do to avoid offending someone

VALID: well-grounded, sound

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EXTRAVAGANT: beyond reason, excessive

FRUSTRATION: a deep chronic sense or state of insecurity and dissatisfaction arising from unresolved problems or unfulfilled needs

FULFILLED: put into effect, realized

INTUITIVELY: knowing immediately without conscious reasoning

MATERIALIZE: come into existence, become fact

RECOIL: to draw back quickly

SLIP: an unintentional mistake, a sudden mishap

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CONTINGENT: dependent on or conditioned by something else

CURED: restored to health, soundness or normality

FOE: enemy, adversary

INSPIRATION: divine influence

LAURELS: honor, good name, recognition

NEUTRALITY: not taking either side, neither for nor against

REPRIEVE: temporary respite, to delay

SANELY: rationally, sensibly

SHY: timid, reluctant

SIXTH SENSE: a power of perception like but not one of the five senses, a keen intuitive power

VISION: a supernatural appearance that conveys a revelation

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APOLOGY: an admission of error or discourtesy accompanied by an expression of regret

CONSTRUCTIVE: helpful

DIMINISH: lessen, decrease

FACULTIES: abilities, power

INDECISION: wavering between two or more possible courses of action

INTUITIVE: know immediately and without conscious reasoning

MORBID: not healthful, characterized by gloomy or unwholesome ideas or feelings

RELAX: become less tense or rigid

STREAM: a continuous moving procession

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AGITATE: to excite and often trouble the mind or feelings of

DEVOTION: ardent love or affection

HUNCH: a strong intuitive feeling as to how something will turn out

PRESUMPTION: something taken to be true

PRIEST: a person who has the authority to conduct religious rites

WARRANT: justify

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BURNING: wasting

EFFICIENT: productive

RABBI: master teacher used as a term of address for Jewish

religious leaders

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AIM: clearly directed intent or purpose

COOPERATE: work together, help

EVANGELIST: one who preaches at special services

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IMMUNITY: the quality or state of being free, exempt

INTENSIVE: concentrated, exhaustive

UNFORTUNATELY: unhappily

UNIQUELY: the only one of its kind

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BINGE: spree

INTERVAL: a state of time between events

LUCID: easily understood, clear

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COMMUNICATIVE: talkative

DWELL: to keep the attention directed

ESCAPADES: adventurous action that runs counter to approval or conventional conduct

HUMOROUS: funny

MORALIZE: to give a moral quality or direction

RECEPTIVE: ready or willing to receive favorably

SKETCH: a brief description

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FOCUS: concentrate

FUNCTIONING: operation

INCONSISTENCIES: actions not in agreement or harmony with each other

PREDICAMENT: a condition or situation that is difficult, unpleasant, embarrassing, or, sometimes, comical

PREVENTS: keeps from happening

PROTEGE: a person under the care and protection of someone influential who intends to further his career

SEVERELY AFFLICTED: greatly troubled or injured

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PRECEPTS: a principle intended as a general rule of action

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CANDIDATE: one who offers himself or is proposed by others for an office, membership, right or honor

CONTRADICT: to resist or oppose in argument

ENDEAVORING: attempting

OBLIGATION: duty

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CONSCIENCE: sense of what is right and wrong

CRUSADE: any vigorous movement on behalf of a cause

HILLTOP: high place

PRODDED: incited, stirred

REFORM: to put or change into an improved form or condition

STEER: direct, guide

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DEPRIVE: to withhold something from someone

DISCRETION: good judgement, caution

EAGERNESS: strong desire or interest

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE: money

HOMELESS: having no home

IMPOSE: to establish or apply as compulsory

INSINCERE: not honest or genuine

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FOUNDATION STONE: a stone in the foundation of a building

GOOD SAMARITAN: one ready and generous in helping those in distress, Luke 10:30-37

JANGLE: ring loudly

RESPONSIBILITIES: matters that someone is required to take care of

SAMARITAN: one ready and generous in helping those in distress

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CHARITY: help for the needy

CONCENTRATE: to concentrate one's power, efforts, or attention

FAULT-FINDING: pointing out blame

INCONSISTENCY: not uniform

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ATMOSPHERE: a surrounding influence or environment

TANGIBLE: capable of being seen

UNDUE: quick

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CRITICISM: critical observation or remark

DICTATE: a ruling principle

PARTICIPATE: take part in

SHUN: avoid deliberately

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ESKIMO: a group of people of northern Canada, Greenland, Alaska, and eastern Siberia

LEGITIMATE: what is right or in accordance with standards permitted

PROVIDENCE: divine guidance

QUALIFICATION: restriction in meaning, a condition that must be complied with

SCHEME: a plan or program of action

SHIELD: protect

STATUS: condition

VICARIOUS: experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another

WHOOPE PARTIES: drinking and gaiety

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APPREHENSION: fear of the future

ENTHUSIASTICALLY: with strong excitement or feeling

GREEN: not in condition for a particular use

HESITATE: be reluctant, hold back

RECRUIT: a newcomer

SEVERE: of a great degree

SORDID: dirty, filthy

VICARIOUS: experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another

WITHDRAW: to become socially or emotionally detached

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GRAVITY: importance, seriousness

REPEL: to turn away

SYMBOL: something that stands for or suggests something else

WITCH-BURNERS: those who deliberately harass those with differing views

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MAUDLIN: weakly and effusively sentiment

RENDEZVOUS: a place appointed for assembling or meeting

SYMPATHY: compassion

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CHUCK: discard

JEOPARDY: danger

VEERED: changed direction or course

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CROCKERY: earthware

INFERIORITY: of little or less importance or value

INHOSPITABLE: not friendly

PALL: something that covers or conceals

PANDEMONIUM: wild uproar

TOTS: small children

WET BLANKET: depress

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CALLOUS: feeling no emotion

DASH: destroy

DISTRACT: to stir up or confuse with conflicting emotions or motives

FUTILE: completely ineffective

HEARTLESSNESS: lacking feeing, cruel

TREADMILL: a mill worked by an animal treading an endless belt

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DISTORT: to twist out of the true meaning or proportion

EXAGGERATE: overstate

PNEUMONIA: inflammation of the lungs with congestion

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EARMARK: a distinguishing mark

EMBARRASSMENT: a state of self-conscious distress

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IMAGINATION: the act or power or forming a mental image of something not present to the senses or never before wholly perceived in reality

LUBRICANT: something that lessens or prevents friction or difficulty

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CONSOLE: comfort

KILLJOY: one who spoils the pleasure of others

RANCOR: bitter deep-seated ill will

TEMPER: to exercise control over

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REVIVE: recall

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HOSTILITY: opposition or resistance in thought or principle

LUKEWARM: halfhearted

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ANEW: fresh

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RECLUSE: marked by withdrawal from society, solitary

SELF-CONSCIOUS: intensely aware of oneself

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VANITY: inflated pride in oneself

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DISSENSION: disagreement

SNAG: a concealed or unexpected difficulty or obstacle

WATCHWORD: a word or phase used as a sign of recognition among members of the same society, class, or group

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CHERISH: to entertain or harbor in the mind deeply and resolutely

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BESTOW: to convey as a gift

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DISMAY: sudden disappointment

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CESSATION: stop

DEFLATE: reduce in size

DETERIORATE: become worse

DISCORD: active quarrelling

FOOTSORE: having sore or tender feet

NEUROTIC: an unemotionally unstable individual

STRAGGLE: to wander from the direct course or way

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ALLURING: very attractive or tempting, enticing

RECOMPENSE: an equivalent or a return for something done, suffered or given

REPROACH: to find fault with, blame

SKELETON: something shameful and kept secret

SPECTRES: something that haunts the mind, ghosts

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AGGRIEVE: to give pain or trouble to, to inflict injury on

AVERT: to turn away

BLIGHT: any cause or impairment or frustration

FLUSH: a sudden increase

GRIEVOUS: causing grief or great sorrow

RECTIFY: to set right

VERITABLE: being truly or very much so

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ENTHUSIAST: one who tends to give himself completely to whatever engages his interest

ORDEAL: a severe trial or experience

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CONTRITION: sincere penitence or remorse with a true purpose of amendment

DELINQUENCIES: offending by neglect or violation of duty

ENTHRALL: to hold on or reduce to slavery, to hold spellbound

HEADLONG: without deliberation, recklessly

IMPASSE: a predicament affording no obvious escape, deadlock

REPROVE: to express disapproval of

TRIFLE: something of little value or importance

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APATHY: lack of feeling or emotion, lack of interest or concern

CONVALESCE: to recover health and strength gradually after sickness or weakness

WROUGHT: harm done others

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ELATION: filled with joy or pride

GAUNT: extremely thin and bony, haggard and drawn as from hunger or weariness

STIRRING: inspiring

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DIVIDENDS: an individual share of something

FALLACY: a false idea

LODE: an ore deposit

LOPSIDED: lacking in balance

PERCEIVE: to grasp mentally, recognizee, observe

PROSPECTOR: one who explores an area especially for mineral deposits

VAGARY: a whimsical, wild, or unusual idea or notion

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GALLANTLY: spirited and conspicuous bravery

INCAPACITATE: disable

TANGENT: diverting from an original purpose or course, irrelevant

WAYWARD: unpredictable, opposite to what is desired or expected

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DERIDE: ridicule

EQUITY: a right, claim, or interest existing or valid in equity

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CONGREGATION: an assembly of persons meeting for worship and religious instruction

CYNICISM: cynical character or quality

GLUM: dreary, gloomy

MIRE: heavy often deep mud or slush

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BELITTLE: to cause a person or thing to seem little or less

DISSIPATION: disintegration

MANUSCRIPT: written or typewritten composition or document as distinguished from a printed copy

MODE: a particular form or variety of something

OMNIPOTENCE: force of unlimited power

RESTORATIVE: something that restores to consciousness, vigor, or health

SUBSCRIBE: support

TWINKLING: instant

VALE: valley

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CORDIALLY: sincere affection and kindness

IMPOTENT: unable to copulae

PATHETIC: having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity

STIMULATING: exciting, arouse

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ADMONISH: to express warning or disapproval to especially in a gentle manner

AILMENT: bodily disorder or chronic disease

APROPOS: being both relevant and opportune

COMMODITY: product of agriculture

MOTTO: a short expression of a guiding principle

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CLEMENCY: mercy, moderate the severity of punishment

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DISCHARGED: to release from an obligation

INTERVENTION: to come in or between by way of hinderance or modification

IRONY: incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result

MAGNITUDE: great size

UNBATED: not decreased in force or intensity

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BUST: a hearty drinking session

TYPICAL: conforming to a type

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ABSTAINER: a person who abstains, esp. from the drinking of alcoholic beverages

KNACK: a clever way of doing something

SPINELESS: lacking strength of character

TEETOTALER: one who practices complete abstinence from alcoholic drinks

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ABERRATION: straying from the right or normal way

ABOVE-BOARD: free from all traces of deceit

CROOKED: dishonest

FEVERED: agitated

HUMANITARIANISM: concern for human welfare

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ANTIC: characterized by clownish extravagance or absurdity

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PROBED: investigated thoroughly

TEMPORIZE: to act to suit the time or the occasion

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DERELICTION: fault, shortcoming

PROPOSE: to form or put forward a plan or intention

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ABIDE: to accept without objection

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EXPLOIT: act, deed

MALICIOUS: given to, marked by, or arising from malice, spiteful

RIVALRIES: competitiveness

SLYLY: clever in concealing ones aims or ends

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LATITUDE: freedom of action or choice

METTLE: quality or temperament or disposition

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RELATIVELY: the state of being dependent for existence on or determined in nature, value, or quality by relation to something else

RUN-AROUND: deceptive or delaying action especially in response to a request

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CONSCIENTIOUS: meticulous, careful, painstaking

QUARRELS: fights or squabbles

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BOILS: summarizes

INTERFERE: to interpose in a way that hinders or impedes

MISLED: to lead in a wrong direction or into a mistaken action or belief by deliberate deceit

RELUCTANT: opposing, holding back

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DERANGED: insane

DISPROPORTIONATE: mismatch

DOWN THE LINE: all the way

EMINENTLY: standing out so as to be readily perceived or noted

HABITUAL: resorted to on a regular basis

PREVALENT: widespread

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LIVING DEATH: life emptied of joys and satisfactions

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BEWILDER: to perplex or confuse

CONSIGNED: committed

CONVIVIALITY: relating to, occupied with, or fond of feasting, drinking, and good company

DENIZEN: inhabitant

FOUR HORSEMEN: the apocalyptic vision in Revelations 6:2-8: war, famine, pestilence, and death personified as the four major plaques

INSISTENT: persistent

SALLY: outburst

YEARNING: a urgent longing

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JUMPING-OFF PLACE: the starting place

RIGHTEOUS: acting in accord with divine or moral law

WHISTLING IN THE DARK: to keep up one's courage

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CHIP: something small, worthless, or trivial

GLIMPSE: to take a brief look

HAMLET: a small village

REPUTE: reputation

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BOG: impede

SCRAPE: to make one's way with difficulty

THIN ICE: on dangerous ground

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ARREARS: unpaid and over due debts

INTRIGUE: to arouse the interest, desire, or curiosity

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MASTERY: the upper hand in a contest or completion

NADIR: the lowest point, point of greatest adversity or despair

RANDOM: lacking a definite plan, purpose, or pattern

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CORKER: one that is excellent or remarkable

TOOK THE BULL BY THE HORNS: didn't shy away, met head on

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ACUTE: brief and severe

GLASSILY: dull, lifeless

IMAGE: exact likeness

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BOILED AS AN OWL: very drunk

DEVIL-MAY-CARE: heedless or authority, reckless

RACKET: occupation

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DISTRESSING: upsetting

TRANSCEND: to rise above or go beyond the limits of

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CAPITULATE: to give up resistance, yield, to surrender unconditional

CONSPIRE: to act in harmony

DAZE: stun

DEDICATED: to become committed to as a goal or way of life

FASCINATE: to be irresistibly attractive

GAY: having or showing a merry, lively mood

GENUINE: sincere

HAVEN: place of safety

INDEFINABLE: incapable of being precisely described

IRRESISTIBLE: impossible to resist successfully

TALLIED: corresponded, matched

UNCANNY: being beyond what is normal or expected

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ACCOMMODATE: to make room for

ATTUNE: to bring into harmony

COUNTENANCE: appearance

DISINHERIT: to prevent deliberately from inheriting

IRATE: arising from anger

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DISTRACTION: something that distracts

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CRITERION: standard of judgement

DUPLICATE: copy

TAP: to let out or cause to flow by piercing or by drawing a plug from the containing vessel

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CRAVE: to have an intense desire for

DESTINY: the preordained or inevitable course of events, fate

RELATIONSHIP: a state of affairs existing between those having relations or dealings

TRANSMIT: to cause or allow to spread

TRUDGE: to walk or march steadily and usually laboriously

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CONDENSED: reduced to a more compact form

FOLD: embrace

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ANONYMITY: being anonymous

GOVERN: to control, direct, or strongly influence the actions and conduct of

SERVANT: one that performs duties about the person or home of a master or personnel employer

ULTIMATE: basic, fundamental, unable of further analysis, division, or separation

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AFFILIATION: closely associated with

CONFORMITY: action in accordance with some specified standard or authority

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HERITAGE: something transmitted by or acquired from a predecessor

INCORPORATED: united into one body

RECUPERATION: to regain a former state of condition, especially to recover health or strength

SOLICIT: to strongly urge

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CUSTODIAN: one that guards and protects or maintains

METROPOLITAN: of, relating to, or characteristic of a city regarded as a center or as specified activity

SECTARIAN: of, relating to, or characteristic of a sect or sectarian

SENSATIONAL: arousing or tending to arouse a quick, intense, and usually superficial interest

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ALTERATION: a substitution for another

ERRONEOUS: mistaken

SPECTACULAR: sensational

TRANSFORMATIONS: acts, processes, or instances of changing

UPHEAVALS: extreme agitations, radical changes

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BELLIGERENT: inclined to or exhibiting assertiveness, hostility, or combativeness

ESSENCE: the individual, real, or ultimate nature of a thing

INVESTIGATE: to observe or study by close examination and systematic inquiry

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EXCERPTS: selected passages for quoting

INSTINCT: behavior that is mediated by reactions below the conscious level

MERIT: a praiseworthy quality

RESERVOIR: reserve

STERILITY: deficient in ideas or originality

THERAPEUTIC: of or relating to the treatment of disease or disorders by remedial agents or methods

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AUSPICES: kindly patronage and guidance

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KINSHIP: relationship

MYRIAD: an immense number

STIGMA: a mark or shame or discredit

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SURPASS: exceed

PART TWO

ALPHABETICALLY

PAGES 37 THROUGH 78

A CERTAIN AMERICAN BUSINESS MAN: Rowland H.

A MAN: Henry P., author of the story The Unbeliever in the 1st edition

ABANDON: give up

ABERRATION: straying from the right or normal way

ABIDE: to accept without objection

ABJECT: existing in a low state or condition

ABNORMAL: not natural, not normal, different then most

ABOVE-BOARD: free from all traces of deceit

ABRUPT: unexpectedly, suddenly

ABSOLUTE: completely

ABSTAINER: a person who abstains, esp. from the drinking of alcoholic beverages

ABSTINENCE: willful avoidance of pleasure, especially of food and drink

ABSURD: ridiculous, unreasonable

ABUNDANT: marked by plenty

ACADEMIC: not practical, abstract

ACCEPT: to receive into the mind

ACCEPTANCE: the act of assenting or believing

ACCOMMODATE: to make room for

ACCOMPLISH: achieve

ACCUMULATE: to increase in quality or number

ACQUAINTANCE: a person one knows

ACUTE: brief and severe

AD INFINITUM: without end or limit

ADDICTION: state of being given up to some habit, practice or pursuit

ADHERENCE: faithfulness, sticking to

ADMIT: acknowledge, confess, admit the truth

ADMONISH: to express warning or disapproval to especially in a gentle manner

ADOPT: to accept formally and put into effect

AFFECTION: fond attachment

AFFILIATION: closely associated with

AFFLICTED: troubled with

AGGREGATE: the sum total

AGGRIEVE: to give pain or trouble to, to inflict injury on

AGHAST: struck with overwhelming shock or amazement

AGITATE: to excite and often trouble the mind or feelings of

AGNOSTIC: a person who believes that God is unknown and probably

unknowable

AILMENT: bodily disorder or chronic disease

AIM: clearly directed intent or purpose

AIMLESSLY: without direction

ALCOHOL: C2H6O (ethyl alcohol

ALCOHOLIC INSANITY: the name commonly used prior to the mid-20th century for the illness of alcoholism

ALCOHOLISM: compulsive us of alcoholic drinks

ALIBI: an excuse, esp. to avoid blame

ALIMONY: an allowance made to one's spouse by the other for support or after legal separation or divorce

ALLERGY: an abnormal reaction to a food or chemical substance

ALLOY: mixture

ALLURING: very attractive or tempting, enticing

ALPHA AND THE OMEGA: the beginning and the end

ALTERATION: a substitution for another

ALTERNATIVE: choice

ALTRUISTIC: concern for the welfare of others as opposed to selfishness

AMAZE: surprise, astonish

AMBITION: goal

AMEND: the correction of an injury or mistake

AMERICAN STATESMAN: Alfred E. "Al" Smith, four time governor of New York and unsuccessful first Roman Catholic Presidential candidate in 1928

ANALYSIS: a critical examination

ANALYZE: critically examine

ANEW: fresh

ANGER: strong displeasure, rage, wrath, fury

ANNALS: history

ANNIHILATION: to reduce to utter ruin or nonexistence, destroy utterly

ANONYMITY: being anonymous

ANONYMOUS: giving no name, marked by lack of individuality or personality

ANOTHER CASE: Fitz M., author of the story Our Southern Friend in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd editions

ANTAGONISM: actively expressed opposition, hostility, or antipathy

ANTI-RELIGIOUS: opposed to religion

ANTI-SOCIAL: contrary or hostile to the well-being of society

ANTIC: characterized by clownish extravagance or absurdity

ANTIPATHY: a strong feeling of aversion or opposition

APATHY: lack of feeling or emotion, lack of interest or concern

APOLOGIZE: admitting an error or discourtesy accompanied by an expression of regret

APOLOGY: an admission of error or discourtesy accompanied by an expression of regret

APPALLING: inspiring horror, dismay, or disgust

APPARENT: clear

APPLAUSE: approval publicly expressed

APPRAISE: to evaluate the worth, significance, or status

APPRECIATE: to value or admire highly

APPREHENSION: fear of the future

APPROACH: preliminary steps, to draw close to, to make advances to

APPROXIMATE: nearly correct or exact

APROPOS: being both relevant and opportune

APTITUDE: innate ability, talent

ARBITER: one chosen or appointed to judge or decide a disputed issue

ARCH: gateway

ARGUE: to give reasons for or against something

ARMISTICE DAY: a holiday celebrated on Nov. 11th from 1919 to 1971 to commemorate the end of World War I on Nov 11, 1918, renamed "Veterans's Day" in 1954, celebrated now on the fourth Monday in October

AROUSE: roused to action, stir up

ARREARS: unpaid and over due debts

ARTICLE: a members of a class of things

ASCERTAIN: to find out or learn with certainly

ASKANCE: with distrust

ASPECT: a particular status or phase in which something appears or may be regarded

ASSERT: to state or declare positively and often forcefully or aggressively

ASSET: advantage

ASSUME: to take to or upon oneself

ASSUMING: taking to be true

ASSUMPTION: taken for granted

ASTONISH: surprise

ASTRONOMICAL: relating to the stars, planets and other bodies in the sky

ASYLUM: an institution for the care of the mentally ill

ATHEIST: a person who believes there is no God

ATMOSPHERE: a surrounding influence or environment

ATTENDANT: accompanying

ATTITUDE: mental position or state of mind

ATTRIBUTE: an inherent characteristic

ATTUNE: to bring into harmony

AUGURY: an occurrence believed to indicate a future event

AUSPICES: kindly patronage and guidance

AUTONOMOUS: having the right or power of self-government, self- contained

AVAIL: profit

AVERT: to turn away

AVOCATION: something a person does in addition to a principle

occupation, esp. for pleasure

AWAKENING: consciousness or awareness

AWE: submissive and admiring fear inspired by authority or powerB

BAFFLE: confuse, bewilder

BALK: to stop short and refuse to proceed

BALLET: a group that performs ballets, dancing

BALMY: foolish, insane

BARRIER: something that impede or separates

BASIS: basic principle

BATHTUB GIN: homemade alcohol

BEDEVILMENT: bewilderment, to cause confusion or doubt in, muddle, confound

BEFOG: confuse

BEHAVIOR: how someone acts

BEHELD: gazed upon

BELIEVE: accepts as true or real

BELITTLE: to cause a person or thing to seem little or less

BELLADONNA TREATMENT: belladonna is the name of a sedative, used for the relief of muscle spasms, especially in the gastrointestinal tact, no longer a standard medical treatment

BELLIGERENT: inclined to or exhibiting assertiveness, hostility, or combativeness

BENDER: a drinking spree

BENEFACTOR: one that makes a gift

BESTOW: to convey as a gift

BEWAIL: to express deep sorrow

BEWILDER: to perplex or confuse

BIASED: prejudiced

BIDDING: work

BINGE: spree

BIT: something that curbs or restrains

BITTER: distasteful or distressing to the mind

BITTERNESS: painful resentment

BLOTTED OUT: wiped out

BOG: impede

BOILED AS AN OWL: very drunk

BOILS: summarizes

BONDAGE: subjected to any force, power or influence

BORE: a dull or monotonous person

BOUT: session

BRAINSTORM: a sudden inspiration idea, or plan

BRANDED: marked with disapproval

BLIGHT: any cause or impairment or frustration

BRISTLE: to take on a aggressive attitude

BROAD HIGHWAY: a wide, open, all-inclusive course or way

BURNED: worn out by improper use

BURNING: wasting

BUST: a hearty drinking session

BY-GONES: those gone by in the pass

CALAMITY: a major misfortune or loss, disaster

CALDRON: large kettle

CALLOUS: feeling no emotion

CAMARADERIE: good feeling existing between comrades

CANDIDATE: one who offers himself or is proposed by others for an office, membership, right or honor

CAPITULATE: to give up resistance, yield, to surrender unconditional

CAPTAIN'S TABLE: head table for the well to do

CAROM: collide with a rebound, glance

CASUAL: informal

CATAPULT: to throw or launch

CESSATION: stop

CHAP: man, fellow

CHARACTER: personality in action

CHARITY: help for the needy

CHERISH: to entertain or harbor in the mind deeply and resolutely

CHICANERY: trickery

CHIEF PHYSICIAN: his actual title was Medical Director at the time the letters of endorsement were written

CHIP: something small, worthless, or trivial

CHRONIC: constantly present, frequently recurring

CHUCK: discard

CHUNK: a large amount

CIPHER: nonentity

CIRCUMSTANCE: a condition, fact, or event accompanying, conditioning, or determining another

CLAMOR: to utter or proclaim insistently and noisy

CLEMENCY: mercy, moderate the severity of punishment

CLING: to hold on to

COCKSURENESS: overconfidence

COCKY: boldly free and forward, conceited

CODE: a system of principles or rules

COLLAPSE: to break down completely

COLOR: skin pigmentation other than white characteristic of race

COLUMBUS: Christopher Columbus Italian navigator who discovered America

COMMAND: to exercise a dominating influence over

COMMITMENT: forced confinement

COMMODITY: product of agriculture

COMMON PLACE: having to do with, belonging to, or used by everybody

COMMON PERIL: same danger

COMMON SENSE: the unreflective opinions of ordinary men

COMMON SOLUTION: the same or shared answer to a problem

COMMUNICATIVE: talkative

COMPANIONSHIP: fellowship

COMPETENT: capable, skilled

COMPLETE: total, absolute

COMPLICATE: to make complex or difficult

COMPLICATION: difficulty

COMPREHEND: grasp the meaning of mentally, understand

COMPREHENSIVE: covering completely

CONCEDE: acknowledge as true, admit

CONCEIVE: originate

CONCENTRATE: to concentrate one's power, efforts, or attention

CONCEPT: thought

CONCEPTION: a general idea or understanding

CONCLUDE: to bring to an end, finish

CONCLUSION: a reasoned judgment

CONDEMNATION: blame, to express an unfavorable or adverse judgment on

CONDENSED: reduced to a more compact form

CONFIDENCE: trust

CONFIDENTIAL: secret

CONFORMITY: action in accordance with some specified standard or authority

CONGREGATION: an assembly of persons meeting for worship and religious instruction

CONQUER: to overcome or be victorious

CONQUEST: something conquered

CONSCIENCE: sense of what is right and wrong

CONSCIENTIOUS: meticulous, careful, painstaking

CONSCIOUS: known or felt by one's inner self

CONSCIOUSNESS: awareness of something

CONSENT: approval, agreement

CONSENTED: to give approval of what is asked, agreed

CONSEQUENCE: result

CONSIDERATE: taking into account the view of another's

circumstances

CONSIGNED: committed

CONSOLE: comfort

CONSPIRE: to act in harmony

CONSTANT: continually, all the time

CONSTERNATION: sudden confusion, amazement or frustration

CONSTITUTIONALLY: of or proceeding from the basic structure or nature of a person or thing

CONSTRUCTIVE: helpful

CONSULT: ask for advice or opinion

CONSUMMATION: finish, completion

CONTACT: the state of being in communication

CONTEMPORARY: one of the same or nearly the same age

CONTEMPT: lack of respect for something

CONTENTION: a point advanced or maintained in a debate or argument

CONTINGENT: dependent on or conditioned by something else

CONTINUE: go on with a particular action

CONTRADICT: to resist or oppose in argument

CONTRARY: opposite

CONTRITION: sincere penitence or remorse with a true purpose of amendment

CONTROVERSIAL: debatable

CONTROVERSY: dispute, quarrel

CONVALESCE: to recover health and strength gradually after sickness or weakness

CONVICTION: strong belief

CONVIVIALITY: relating to, occupied with, or fond of feasting, drinking, and good company

COOPERATE: work together, help

CORDIALLY: sincere affection and kindness

CORKER: one that is excellent or remarkable

CORNERSTONE: foundation

CORRODING: slowly weakening

COUNSEL: advise

COUNTENANCE: appearance

COWARDLY: lacking courage

CRANNY: an obscure nook or corner

CRAVE: to have an intense desire for

CRAVING: an abnormal desire, a great desire or longing

CRAWL: approach in a slave-like manner

CRAZY: insane

CREATOR: God

CREDITOR: person to whom money or dues are due

CREED: a brief authoritative formula or religious belief

CRIED OUT: begged

CRIMINAL: wrongdoing, infraction, misdeed, forbidden by law

CRITERION: standard of judgement

CRITICISM: critical observation or remark

CRITICIZE: stress someone's faults

CROCKERY: earthware

CROOKED: dishonest

CRUCIAL: essential

CRUSADE: any vigorous movement on behalf of a cause

CRUX: basic or essential thing

CUNNING: crafty, tricky

CUPS: drunk

CURED: restored to health, soundness or normality

CUSTODIAN: one that guards and protects or maintains

CYCLONE: tornado

CYNICAL: distrustful of human nature, inclined to question the sincerity and goodness of people

CYNICALLY: distrustfully

CYNICISM: cynical character or quality

DASH: destroy

DAZE: stun

DEBACLE: complete failure, disaster or fiasco

DEBAUCH: extreme intemperance

DECEPTION: a state of being misled

DECISION: a choice of action chosen

DEDICATED: to become committed to as a goal or way of life

DEFECT: deficiency, fault, flaw

DEFECTIVE: lacking something essential to be complete

DEFECT OF CHARACTER: deficiencies, faults, flaws of character

DEFICIENCIES: defects, inadequacies

DEFINITE: clear, precise

DEFLATE: reduce in size

DELINQUENCIES: offending by neglect or violation of duty

DELIRIUM: a mental disturbance characterized by confusion, disordered speech and hallucinations

DELIRIUM TREMENS: a violent delirium with tremens that is induced by excessive and prolonged use of alcoholic liquors, called D.T.'s

DELUSION: a false belief held as a result of self-deception

DEMEANOR: behavior toward others, outward manner

DEMOCRACY: the absence of hereditary or arbitrary class

distinctions or privileges

DEMOCRATIC: relating to the broad masses of people

DEMORALIZATION: discouragement

DENIAL: refusal to admit the truth or reality

DENIZEN: inhabitant

DENOMINATION: a religious organization uniting in a single body, a number of congregations

DEPORTMENT: conduct, behavior

DEPRESSED: in low spirits, dejected

DEPRIVE: to withhold something from someone

DERANGED: insane

DERELICTION: fault, shortcoming

DERIDE: ridicule

DERIVE: to obtain from a specified source

DESIGN FOR LIVING: way of life

DESIGN: to have a purpose, intentions

DESPAIR: to lose all hope

DESPAIRING: devoid of hope

DESPERATE: having lost hope

DESPERATION: giving up hope

DESPISE: scorn, condemn

DESTINY: the preordained or inevitable course of events, fate

DESTITUTION: poverty

DETERIORATE: become worse

DETERIORATION: impair

DEVASTATE: bring to ruin, overwhelm

DEVIL: the chief evil spirit, a supernatural being subordinate to, and the foe of God, Satan

DEVIL-MAY-CARE: heedless or authority, reckless

DEVOTION: ardent love or affection

DIAGNOSIS: identifying a disease

DICTATE: a ruling principle

DIFFERENTIATE: recognize a difference

DIFFIDENT: hesitant in acting or speaking though lack of self- confidence

DIGEST: absorb or assimilate mentally

DILEMMA: unsatisfactory alternative

DILIGENTLY: using steady effort

DIMINISH: lessen, decrease

DIRECTION: guidance, supervision

DIRECTOR: one who supervises, controls or manages

DISASTER: a terrible misfortune

DISCHARGED: to release from an obligation

DISCIPLINE: orderly or prescribed conduct or pattern of behavior

DISCONCERTED: thrown into confusion

DISCORD: active quarrelling

DISCREDITING: hurting someone's reputation

DISCRETION: good judgement, caution

DISEASE: any harmful condition

DISGRACE: humiliate

DISHONEST: lacking truth

DISILLUSIONMENT: disenchantment, disappointment

DISINHERIT: to prevent deliberately from inheriting

DISMAY: sudden disappointment

DISPLACEMENTS: removal from the usual or proper place

DISPOSAL: use

DISPOSITION: temperamental makeup

DISPROPORTIONATE: mismatch

DISSECT: separate into pieces, cutting apart

DISSENSION: disagreement

DISSIPATION: disintegration

DISTINCT: distinguished as not being the same, not identical

DISTINCTION: differentiation

DISTINGUISHED: marked as separate or different

DISTORT: to twist out of the true meaning or proportion

DISTRACT: to stir up or confuse with conflicting emotions or motives

DISTRACTION: something that distracts

DISTRESSING: upsetting

DIVERTED: turned aside

DIVIDENDS: an individual share of something

DIVINE: of, relating to, or proceeding directly from God

DIVORCE: separation

DOGGED: faltering

DOGGEREL: verse that is loosely styled and irregular in measure, used especially for burlesque or comic effect

DOMESTIC: of or relating to the household or the family

DOMINATE: control

DOOMED: condemned to an unhappy destiny

DOUBT: distrust

DOWN FOR THE COUNT: defeated (boxing term)

DOWN THE LINE: all the way

DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE: becoming two different people

DR. JUNG: celebrated psychiatrist, from Zurich, Switzerland

DRAMA: dramatic state

DRAMATIC: striking in effect

DRASTIC: especially severe

DRUG: a substance other than food taken into the body that changes its function

DRY: not drinking

DUBIOUS: questionable, doubtful

DUCK: avoid, evade

DUPLICATE: copy

DWELL: to keep the attention directed

EAGERNESS: strong desire or interest

EARMARK: a distinguishing mark

EARNEST: a serious and intent mental state

ECONOMIC: relating to monetary matters

EFFICIENT: productive

EGO-CENTRIC: thinking or acting with the view that one's self is the center

EGOTISM: valuing everything only in reference to one's personal interest

EGOTISTICAL: devoted to one's own interest and advancements

ELATION: filled with joy or pride

ELBA & ST. HELENA: Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) was exiled to the island of Elba, he escaped and returned to power, exiled again--permanently--to the island of St. Helena after his defeat at the battle of Waterloo

ELECTRIC: producing an intensely stimulating effect, thrilling

ELECTRICITY: power consisting of negative and positive composed

respectively of electrons and protons

ELECTRONS: an elementary particle consisting of a charge of negative electricity

ELUSIVE: evasive, hard to comprehend or define

EMANATE: originate

EMBARRASSMENT: a state of self-conscious distress

EMINENTLY: standing out so as to be readily perceived or noted

EMBITTER: to make bitter

EMINENTLY: standing out so as to be readily perceived or noted

EMOTIONS: feelings

EMPHASIZE: give special consideration to, place emphasis on

EMPHATICALLY: marked with emphasis

ENCHANTED: influenced, attracted

ENCOUNTER: come upon, meet unexpectedly

ENDEAVORING: attempting

ENDORSEMENT: approval

ENGULFS: overwhelms

ENTERPRISES: business organizations

ENTHRALL: to hold on or reduce to slavery, to hold spellbound

ENTHUSIASM: a strong excitement of feeling

ENTHUSIAST: one who tends to give himself completely to whatever engages his interest

ENTHUSIASTICALLY: with strong excitement or feeling

ENTITY: something that exists on its own

ENVIRONMENT: the circumstances, objects, or conditions by which one is surrounded

ENVIRONS: surroundings

EPISODES: incidents, events

EPOCH: an event or a time that begins a new period or development

EQUITY: a right, claim, or interest existing or valid in equity

ERADICATED: done away with completely

ERRATIC: characterized by lack of consistency, regularity, or uniformity

ERRONEOUS: mistaken

ERSTWHILE: former

ESCAPADES: adventurous action that runs counter to approval or conventional conduct

ESKIMO: a group of people of northern Canada, Greenland, Alaska, and eastern Siberia

ESSENCE: the individual, real, or ultimate nature of a thing

ESSENTIAL: of the utmost importance, indispensable, necessary

ESTABLISH: to bring into existence, to bring about

ESTABLISHED RELIGION: denominations that have existed for a long

time

EVADED: avoided facing up to

EVANGELIST: one who preaches at special services

EVIL: wicked

EXACT: accurate and specific

EXAGGERATE: overstate

EXCERPTS: selected passages for quoting

EXERCISE: something performed or practiced in order to develop or improve

EXCITEMENT: aroused feelings

EXERT: to put forth

EXHILARATING: cheerful or jolly, filled with a lively sense of well-being

EXONERATING: clearing from accusation or blame

EXPERIENCE OF A MAN: Fitz M., author of the story Our Southern Friend in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd editions

EXPERIENCES: knowledge or skills gained by actually doing or feeling something

EXPLOIT: act, deed

EXTRAORDINARY: beyond or out of the usual order or method

EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIENCE: 1932

EXTRAVAGANT: beyond reason, excessive

EXTREME: excessive degree

FABRIC: structure

FACILITATED: made easier

FACULTIES: abilities, power

FAITH: firm belief in something for which there is no proof, complete confidence, trust

FALLACIOUS: containing a fallacy, logically unsound

FALLACY: a false idea

FANATICAL: excessive, very intense

FANATICS: people with excessive enthusiasm and intense uncritical

devotion

FANCIED: imagined

FAR-FETCHED: improbable

FARE: activities

FARED: traveled

FASCINATE: to be irresistibly attractive

FATALITY: deadliness

FAULT: responsible, open to blame

FAULT-FINDING: pointing out blame

FEAR: alarm, dread, panic

FELLOWSHIP: a group of people with the same interests or experiences

FETTERED: confined or restrained

FEUDS: prolonged quarrels

FEVERED: agitated

FILL THE BILL: correct a wrong

FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE: money

FINITE: having limited boundaries

FIRING LINE: the forefront of an activity

FLAGGING: weak, dwindling

FLATLY: absolutely

FLAVOR: something that adds to or enhances

FLAWS: weakness's

FLEDGLING: immature or inexperienced

FLOUNDERED: ineffectually, in a confused manner

FLUSH: a sudden increase

FOCUS: concentrate

FOE: enemy, adversary

FOLD: embrace

FOOTING: a stable position

FOOTSORE: having sore or tender feet

FORBIDDING: to make approach or passage difficult or impossible

FOREBODINGS: a dark sense of impending evil, an evil omen

FORGE: to form or bring into being especially by an expenditure of effort

FOUNDATION: the fundamental principle on which something is founded, basis

FOUNDATION STONE: a stone in the foundation of a building

FOUR HORSEMEN: the apocalyptic vision in Revelations 6:2-8: war, famine, pestilence, and death personified as the four major plaques

FOURTH DIMENSION: something outside ordinary experience

FRAILTY: a fault resulting from moral weakness

FRANK: free and forthright in expressing one's feelings and opinions, outspoken

FRANKLY: free and forthright in expressing one's feelings and opinions, outspoken

FRANTIC: emotionally out of control

FRANTICALLY: emotionally out of control

FRANKNESS: marked by free, forthright, and sincere expression

FREEDOM: liberty, absence of restriction

FRIEND IN MONTREAL: Dick Johnson

FRIENDS: those attached to others by affection or esteem

FROTHY: something unsubstantial or of little value

FRUSTRATE: to induce feelings of discouragement

FRUSTRATION: a deep chronic sense or state of insecurity and dissatisfaction arising from unresolved problems or unfulfilled needs

FULFILLED: put into effect, realized

FUNCTION: one of a group of related actions contributing to a larger action

FUNCTIONING: operation

FUNDAMENTAL: basic or primary

FURIOUS: extremely angry

FUTILE: completely ineffective

FUTILITY: uselessness, without purpose

GALLANTLY: spirited and conspicuous bravery

GALILEO: Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Italian astronomer

GALORE: plenty

GASTRIC HEMORRHAGE: bleeding pertaining to the stomach

GAUNT: extremely thin and bony, haggard and drawn as from hunger or weariness

GAY: having or showing a merry, lively mood

GENERALSHIP: leadership

GENUINE: sincere

GETTING TIGHT: drinking too much

GIN MILLS: drinking establishments, bars

GLARING: painfully and obtrusively obvious

GLASSILY: dull, lifeless

GLIMPSE: to take a brief look

GLUM: dreary, gloomy

GOD: the supreme or ultimate reality, the Being effect in power, wisdom and goodness whom men worship as creator and ruler of the universe

GOOD SAMARITAN: one ready and generous in helping those in distress, Luke 10:30-37

GOOSE HUNG HIGH: a period of good times

GORGE: a strong feeling of dislike or distaste

GOVERN: to control, direct, or strongly influence the actions and conduct of

GRACIOUS: kind and courteous

GRASPED: took hold of, intellectually comprehended

GRATIFIED: pleased or satisfied

GRAVE: important

GRAVELY: likely to produce great harm

GRAVITY: importance, seriousness

GREEN: not in condition for a particular use

GRIEVOUS: causing grief or great sorrow

GRIM: sinister

GROSSER: glaringly noticeable

GROUCH: a habitually complaining or irritable person

GRUDGE: a deep-seated resentment

GUIDANCE: advice, direction, leadership

HABIT: manner of conducting oneself

HABITUAL: resorted to on a regular basis

HAMLET: a small village

HANDICAPPED: at a disadvantage

HANDICAPS: a disadvantage that makes progress or success more

difficult

HANG: to take hold for support

HAPPINESS: a state of well-being, contentment, joy

HARBORING: holding on to thoughts or feelings

HARMONIOUS: marked by accord in sentiment or action

HAVEN: place of safety

HAVOC: wide and general destruction

HEAD: to set the course of

HEADLONG: without deliberation, recklessly

HEARTACHE: anguish of mind, sorrow

HEARTBREAKING: causing anguish of mind, sorrow

HEARTLESSNESS: lacking feeing, cruel

HELL: a place or state of torment or wickedness, a generalized term of abuse

HENCE: from this time

HENCE THE TWO MEN: Bill W. and Dr. Bob

HERESIES: opinions contrary to accepted beliefs

HERITAGE: something transmitted by or acquired from a predecessor

HEROIC: exhibiting courage and daring

HESITATE: be reluctant, hold back

HIGHBALL: a drink of alcohol and water or a carbonated beverage

HILARIOUS: cheerful, boisterous, funny

HILLTOP: high place

HOLIER THAN THOU: an attitude of feeling superior, spiritually pure

HOMELESS: having no home

HONEST: free from fraud or deception

HONESTY: fairness and straight forwardness of conduct

HOST: a very large number

HOSTILITY: opposition or resistance in thought or principle

HUMAN: of, relating to or, characteristic of man, have human form or attributes

HUMANITARIANISM: concern for human welfare

HUMBLE: not proud, arrogant, or assertive

HUMBLED: made not proud, arrogant, or assertive

HUMBLY: lacking pride, aware of one's shortcomings

HUMBLING: lowered in pride, importance or dignity

HUMILIATED: lowered in pride, dignity or status, disgraced

HUMILIATION: to reduce to a lower position in one's own eyes or other's eyes

HUMILITY: the quality or state of being humble

HUMOROUS: funny

HUNCH: a strong intuitive feeling as to how something will turn out

HYDROTHERAPY: the use of water in the treatment of disease

HYSTERICAL: very emotional

IDEALS: standards of perfection

IGNORANCE: the state of being uniformed

IGNORANCE: the state of being uniformed

ILLNESS: an unhealthy condition of body or mind

ILLUMINATING: throwing light on, revealing

ILLUSION: something that misleads or deceives

IMAGE: exact likeness

IMAGINATION: the act or power or forming a mental image of something not present to the senses or never before wholly perceived in reality

IMMEDIATELY: now

IMMUNE: free, exempt

IMMUNITY: the quality or state of being free, exempt

IMMUTABLE: not subject to change or alteration

IMPAIR: to make worse by

IMPASSE: a predicament affording no obvious escape, deadlock

IMPECCABLE: without fault, faultless

IMPENDING: about to happen

IMPERATIVE: mandatory

IMPERIOUS: domineering, overbearing, commanding

IMPLICATE: involve

IMPOSE: to establish or apply as compulsory

IMPOTENT: unable to copulae

IMPULSE: a sudden urge

IMPUNITY: without punishment, harm or loss

INABILITY: lack of means or ability

INADEQUACY: insufficient

INADEQUATE: insufficient

INCAPABLE: lacking strength, ability or power

INCAPACITATE: disable

INCESSANTLY: continuously

INCOMPREHENSIBLE: incapable of being understood

INCONSIDERATE: careless of the rights or feelings of others, thoughtless

INCONSISTENCIES: actions not in agreement or harmony with each other

INCONSISTENT: not uniform

INCORPORATED: united into one body

INCREDIBLE: too extraordinarily and improbable to be believed

INDECISION: wavering between two or more possible courses of action

INDEFINABLE: incapable of being precisely described

INDICATED: hinted

INDIGNANT: anger caused by an unjust act

INDISPENSABLE: absolutely necessary, essential

INDULGE: take pleasure in

INEVITABLY: incapable of being avoided

INEXPLICABLY: incapable of being explained

INFERIORITY: of little or less importance or value

INFERNO: a place or a state that resembles or suggests hell

INFIDELITY: marital unfaithfulness

INFINITE: having no boundaries or limits

INHERENT: existing in someone or something as a natural and

inseparable quality

INHOSPITABLE: not friendly

INJUSTICE: wrong

INNUMERABLE: too many to be numbered, countless

INSANITY: not whole of mind

INSECURITY: uncertainty, instability

INSIDIOUS: harmful but enticing, treacherous, seductive

INSINCERE: not honest or genuine

INSISTENT: persistent

INSPIRATION: divine influence

INSPIRATIONAL: having divine influence

INSPIRED: influenced, moved, or guided by divine inspiration

INSPIRING: having an animating or exalting effect

INSTINCT: behavior that is mediated by reactions below the conscious level

INSTITUTION: an established organization

INSUFFICIENT: inadequate, not good enough

INTELLECT: capacity for knowledge

INTELLECTUAL: rational rather than emotional

INTELLECTUALLY: developed or chiefly guided by the intellect rather than by emotion or experience

INTELLIGENCE: knowledge

INTELLIGENT: the power of knowing as distinguished from the power to feel and to will

INTENSE: existing in an extreme degree

INTENSIFIED: strengthen, sharpened

INTENSIVE: concentrated, exhaustive

INTERFERE: to interpose in a way that hinders or impedes

INTERVAL: a state of time between events

INTERVENTION: to come in or between by way of hinderance or modification

INTIMATE: very personal or private

INTIMATE AND CONFIDENTIAL STEP: step five

INTIMATED: hinted

INTOLERABLE: not tolerable, excessive

INTOLERANCE: unwillingness to allow or respect the beliefs or behavior of others

INTRIGUE: to arouse the interest, desire, or curiosity

INTUITIVE: know immediately and without conscious reasoning

INTUITIVELY: knowing immediately without conscious reasoning

INVARIABLY: constantly

INVENTORY: a detailed list of things in one's view or possession

INVESTIGATE: to observe or study by close examination and systematic inquiry

INVESTIGATOR: a person making a systematic examination

IRATE: arising from anger

IRONY: incongruity between the actual result of a sequence of events and the normal or expected result

IRRESISTIBLE: impossible to resist successfully

JAG: a bout or spree

JANGLE: ring loudly

JEALOUSY: envious resentment against a successful rival

JEOPARDY: danger

JEST: prank

JITTERY: nervous, uneasy

JOURNEY: something suggesting travel or passage from one place to another

JUMPING-OFF PLACE: the starting place

JUSTIFICATION: warrant, having sufficient cause

KEYSTONE: something on which associated things depend for support

KILLJOY: one who spoils the pleasure of others

KIND DOCTOR: William Duncan Silkworth, M.D.

KINDLINESS: be gentle and helpful

KINSHIP: relationship

KNACK: a clever way of doing something

LABORIOUSLY: with great effort

LANDING FIELD: where planes land

LATITUDE: freedom of action or choice

LAUNCHED: to throw oneself energetically

LAURELS: honor, good name, recognition

LAYMEN: people who do not have special or advanced training or skills

LEANING: a definite but not decisive attraction

LECTURES: reprimands

LEGIONS: very large numbers

LEGIONS OF ALCOHOLICS: a lot of alcoholics

LEGITIMATE: what is right or in accordance with standards permitted

LETHARGY: abnormal drowsiness, laziness, indifference

LEVITY: lacing in seriousness

LIABILITIES: pecuniary obligations

LIBERATION: release

LIFE: the sequence of physical and mental experiences that make up the existence of an individual

LITERALLY: characterized by a concern mainly with facts

LIVING DEATH: life emptied of joys and satisfactions

LOATHED: disliked greatly, detested

LODE: an ore deposit

LOGIC: formal principles of reasoning

LOGICAL: reasonable, valid

LOLLS: lounges

LONELINESS: without companions, dejected by the awareness of being alone

LONGSHOREMAN: a person who works on a waterfront loading and unloading ships

LOOSE: free from restraint

LOPSIDED: lacking in balance

LOT: a number of associated persons

LOVE: concern

LUBRICANT: something that lessens or prevents friction or difficulty

LUCID: easily understood, clear

LUCRATIVE: profitable

LUKEWARM: halfhearted

LUNACY: unsoundness of mind, insanity, great foolishness, extreme folly

LUNAR: of or pertaining to the moon

LURKING: laying in ambush, hidden

LUST: craving, intense sexual desire

LUSTRE: shine, glow

LUXURY: great ease or comfort

MAELSTROM: a tumultuous state of affairs

MAGNITUDE: great size

MAINSPRING: the chief or most powerful motive or cause

MAINTENANCE: upkeep

MAJESTIC: grand

MAJESTY: authority

MAKE-UP: the way something is put together

MALADJUSTED: lacking harmony with one's environment

MALADY: disease or disorder of the body or mind, ailment

MALICIOUS: given to, marked by, or arising from malice, spiteful

MANGLED: deeply injured

MANIC-DEPRESSIVE: having a mental disorder marked by excitation and depression

MANIFESTATION: perceptible outward or visible expressions

MANIFESTED: shown or demonstrated plainly

MANNER: the way in which a thing is done or happens

MANUSCRIPT: written or typewritten composition or document as distinguished from a printed copy

MARSHALLED: brought together

MARTYR: one who sacrifices his life or something of great value for the sake of principle

MASS OF ELECTRONS: a group of particles charged with negative electricity

MASTERED: controlled

MASTERY: the upper hand in a contest or completion

MATERIALIZE: come into existence, become fact

MAUDLIN: weakly and effusively sentiment

MAXIMUM: the greatest or most

MEDITATION: serious contemplation or reflection, listening for

directions

MEND: correct

MENTAL: relating to he mind

MENTAL GOOSE-FLESH: state of fear

MENTAL TWIST: unexplainable thinking

MERIT: a praiseworthy quality

METROPOLITAN: of, relating to, or characteristic of a city regarded as a center or as specified activity

METTLE: quality or temperament or disposition

MIDDLE OF-THE-ROAD: between two extremes

MILLENNIUMS: periods of 1,000 years

MINISTER: one officiating or assisting at a church or religious service

MINISTRATION: to give aid or service

MIRACLE: divine intervention in human affairs

MIRACULOUS: supernatural, of divine origin

MIRE: heavy often deep mud or slush

MISFORTUNE: the ensuing unhappy situation

MISGIVING: a feeling of doubt or suspicion concerning a future event

MISLED: to lead in a wrong direction or into a mistaken action or belief by deliberate deceit

MODE: a particular form or variety of something

MODERATE: observing reasonable limits

MODERATELY: avoiding extremes

MODEST: neither bold nor self-assertive

MODESTLY: placing a moderate estimate on one's abilities or worth

MOLD: form into shape

MONOPOLY: exclusive possession

MORAL: concerned with the principles of right and wrong behavior, correct and true, virtuous

MORALIZE: to give a moral quality or direction

MORALS: teachings governing right thought or behavior

MORASS: something that traps or impedes

MORBID: not healthful, characterized by gloomy or unwholesome ideas or feelings

MORPHINE: a bitter, white, crystalline, habit-forming drug made from opium

MORTAR: building material

MOTIVE: need or desire that causes one to act

MOTTO: a short expression of a guiding principle

MUMBLE: to utter words in a low confused indistinct manner

MUMBLING: uttering words in a low confused, indistinct manner

MURMUR: soft or low sound

MUSHROOMED: to spring up suddenly or multiply rapidly

MUSHY: weak

MUSING: thinking, contemplation

MUST: essential

MUSTER: comprise

MY BROTHER-IN-LAW: a physician, Dr. Leonard Strong

MYRIAD: an immense number

MYSTIFIED: bewildered

NADIR: the lowest point, point of greatest adversity or despair

NAG: complain, to be a continuing source of annoyance

NATIONALLY PROMINENT HOSPITAL: Charles B. Towns Hospital, New York, NY., now an apartment building

NATURE: the basis or essential characteristics of something

NEGLIGIBLE: so small so as not to merit attention, trifling

NEUROTIC: an unemotionally unstable individual

NEUTRALITY: not taking either side, neither for nor against

NIGHTMARE: an experience, situation, or object having the monstrous character of a nightmare or producing a feeling of anxiety or terror

NIL: nothing, naught, zero

NO AVAIL: no use or advantage

NO AXES TO GRIND: not for selfish purposes

NO BONES: no excuses

NOMINAL: not in practice but in name only

NONCHALANT: unconcerned, easy

NORMALLY: naturally

NOT HAD A DRINK SINCE: Bill Wilson's sobriety date is December 11, 1934

NOTION: belief

NOVEL: new and not resembling something formerly known or used

OASIS: a small place preserved from surrounding unpleasantness, a refuge

OBJECTIONABLE: displeasing, offensive

OBLIGATION: duty

OBLIGED: forced

OBLIVION: being forgotten

OBSCURE: not readily understood or not clearly expressed

OBSESSION: a compulsive, often unreasonable idea or feeling

OBSTACLE: something that stands in the way of progress toward some goal

OBSTINACY: stubbornness

OBVIOUSLY: easily seen

OFFENDED: to cause dislike or anger

OFFENDER: that which causes dislike or anger

OFFENSE: wrongdoing, infraction, misdeed

OLD SCHOOL FRIEND: Edwin "Ebby" Thatcher

OMINOUS: foretelling evil, threatening

OMNIPOTENCE: force of unlimited power

ONE POOR CHAP: Bill C., a lawyer, committed suicide in summer of 1936, lived with them for over a year

ONE WESTERN CITY: Cleveland, Ohio

OPERATIVE: influence

OPINION: a belief or conclusion held with confidence but not substantiated by positive knowledge or proof

OPTIONAL: not compulsory

ORDAINED: to establish by appointment with ministerial or priestly authority

ORDEAL: a severe trial or experience

ORGANIZED RELIGION: coordinated worship

OTHER SIMPLE STEPS: steps four through twelve

OUR POCKETBOOK: supply of money, financial resources

OUTLOOK: point of view

OVERDOSE OF RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: excessive or forced religious training

OVERHAULING: repairs

OVERWHELM: to overcome by superior force, crush

OXFORD GROUPS: nondenominational evangelical movement which flourished in the 1920's and early 30's

PADDING: expanding or increasing with needless or fraudulent matter

PALL: something that covers or conceals

PANDEMONIUM: wild uproar

PARADOXICALLY: seemingly contradictory but true

PARAMOUNT: of chief concern or importance, primary, foremost

PARTICIPATE: take part in

PASSION: a strong liking

PATH: way of life, conduct or thought

PATHETIC: having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity

PATHOLOGICAL: pertaining to disease

PATIENCE: an understanding of a trying situation or person

PEACE: quiet, harmony in personal relations

PECULIAR: different from the usual or normal

PERCEIVE: to grasp mentally, recognizee, observe

PERMANENTLY: fixed and changeless

PERSEVERED: persisted in spite of discouragement

PERSIST: press on resolutely or stubbornly in spite of opposition, importunity, or warnings

PERSONAL: relating to an individual or his character

PERSONALITY: the organization of the individual's distinguishing character traits, attitudes, or habits

PERSPECTIVE: the power to see or think of things in their true relationship to each other

PERSUADE: move by argument to a belief, position, or course of action, induce, urge

PERTINENT: very significant or important

PERVADE: to become diffused throughout every part of

PERVERSE: arising from or indicative of stubbornness

PHASE: stage, part

PHENOMENA: things known through the senses but not understood by the mind

PHENOMENON: something known by the senses but not understood by the mind

PHILOSOPHIC: characterizing a philosopher, enlightened, wise,

thoughtful

PHILOSOPHY: belief, attitude, overall vision or attitude

PIONEER: a person or group who/that originates or helps open up a new line or thought or activity or a new method or technical development

PIT: hell

PITIFUL: deserving pity

PITY: sympathetic sorrow for one suffering, distressed or

unhappiness

PLAGUED: afflicted

PLANE: a level of existence, consciousness, or development

PLATTSBURCH: New York

PLAUSIBILITY: worthiness, reasonableness

PLEDGE: a biding promise or agreement to do something

PLIGHT: a distressing condition or situation

PLUNGE: to act with reckless haste

PNEUMONIA: inflammation of the lungs with congestion

POINT-BLANK: clearly, directly

POMP: splendor

PONDERING: thinking

POSTPONE: putting off to a later time, delay

POT: to drink an intoxicating beverage from a pot

POTENTIAL: capable of being but not yet in existence

POWERLESS: lacking strength or power, helpless

PRACTICAL: useful, not theoretical

PRACTICAL PROGRAM OF ACTION: recovery steps four through twelve

PRAISE: to express a favorable judgement

PRAY: to address God

PRAYER: any act or communication with God

PRECEDE: go in advance of, go before

PRECEPTS: a principle intended as a general rule of action

PRECIPITATES: causes to happen

PREDICAMENT: a condition or situation that is difficult, unpleasant, embarrassing, or, sometimes, comical

PREJUDICES: opinions adverse to anything without just grounds or

before sufficient knowledge is obtained, resentments handed down

PREMEDITATION: plotting in advance

PREPOSTEROUS: absurd, senseless, foolish

PRESTIGE: standing or estimation in the eyes of people, influence

PRESUMPTION: something taken to be true

PREVALENT: widespread

PREVENTS: keeps from happening

PREY: one that is helpless or unable to resist attack

PRIDE: self-resect

PRIEST: a person who has the authority to conduct religious rites

PRINCIPLES: basic truth's or law's

PROBED: investigated thoroughly

PROCREATION: reproduce

PROCURED: got possession of, obtained, brought about, achieved

PRODDED: incited, stirred

PRODIGIOUS BENDER: enormous drinking, spree

PROFFERED: suggested

PROFOUND: deep-seated

PROGRAM: plan of action taken toward a goal

PROGRAM OF ACTION: steps four through twelve

PROGRAM OF RECOVERY: asking His protection and care with compete abandon

PROMINENT: widely and popularly known

PROMISES: grounds for expectations

PROMISING: likely to succeed

PROPHESIED: predicted

PROPORTION: balance

PROPOSALS: suggestions

PROPOSE: to form or put forward a plan or intention

PROPOSITION: point to be discussed

PROSAIC: dull, unimaginative

PROSPECT: candidate deemed likely to succeed, potential buyer

PROSPECTOR: one who explores an area especially for mineral deposits

PROTEGE: a person under the care and protection of someone influential who intends to further his career

PROTESTATIONS: objections, disapproval

PROVIDENCE: divine guidance

PROVOCATION: the act of stifling or inciting to action

PSYCHIATRIC: the mental study, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mental illness

PSYCHIC: pertaining to the mind

PSYCHIC CHANGE: a hugh emotional displacement and rearrangement of ideas, emotions, and attitudes, a personality change

PSYCHOLOGICAL: pertaining to psychology (mind and behavior)

PSYCHOLOGISTS: those trained in psychology (the science of mind and behavior)

PSYCHOLOGY: the science of mind and behavior

PSYCHOPATHS: those with a personality disorder, especially one manifested in aggressively antisocial behavior

QUALIFICATION: restriction in meaning, a condition that must be complied with

QUARRELS: fights or squabbles

QUEER: differing in some odd way from what is usual or normal, mildly insane

QUERY: a question

QUESTIONABLE SITUATION: doubtful activity

QUICKSAND: a bed of loose sand mixed with water forming a soft,

shifting mass that yields easily to pressure and tends to suck down any object resting on its surface

RABBI: master teacher used as a term of address for Jewish

religious leaders

RACE: a class of people or kind of people unified by community of interests, habits, or characteristics

RACKET: occupation

RADICAL: extreme

RAMIFICATION: outgrowth

RANCOR: bitter deep-seated ill will

RANDOM: lacking a definite plan, purpose, or pattern

RANTING: violent, loud, vehement

RARELY: not often, seldom, infrequently

RATIONAL: having reason or understanding

REACT: act or behave in response to something

REACTIONS: responses

REALITY: the truth

REALIZE: be fully aware

REALM: possibility of

REARRANGE: change into a new and proper order

REASONED: thought logically

REASONING: ability to think

REASSURED: restored to confidence

REBELLIOUS: defiant, opposing

REBORN: born again, emotionally or spiritually revived or regenerated

RECEPTIVE: ready or willing to receive favorably

RECLUSE: marked by withdrawal from society, solitary

RECOIL: to draw back quickly

RECOMPENSE: an equivalent or a return for something done, suffered or given

RECONCILED: made friendly again, settled

RECONSTRUCTION: rebuilding, making over

RECOVERY: return to a normal state

RECRUIT: a newcomer

RECTIFY: to set right

RECUPERATION: to regain a former state of condition, especially to recover health or strength

REFLECT: to think quietly and calmly, consider

REFORM: to put or change into an improved form or condition

REFORMER: one who urges a person to abandon irresponsible or immoral practices

REHABILITATION: to restore to a former capacity

RELAPSE: a return to a former condition after a change for the better

RELATION: the state of being mutually or reciprocally interested

RELATIONSHIP: a state of affairs existing between those having relations or dealings

RELATIVELY: the state of being dependent for existence on or determined in nature, value, or quality by relation to something else

RELAX: become less tense or rigid

RELIANCE: dependence

RELIGIOUS: the way someone worships God

RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: one of the systems of faith and worship RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: learning the service and worship of God

RELIEVE: to free from a burden

RELUCTANT: opposing, holding back

REMARKABLE: noticeable

REMEDY: a cure

REMONSTRANCES: speeches or gestures of protest, opposition or

reproof

REMORSE: gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs

REMORSEFUL: feeling distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs

RENDEZVOUS: a place appointed for assembling or meeting

REPARATION: a repairing or keeping in repair, the act of making amends for wrongs done

REPEL: to turn away

REPRIEVE: temporary respite, to delay

REPROACH: to find fault with, blamed

REPROVE: to express disapproval of

REPUTATION: overall quality or character as seen or judged by others

REPUTE: reputation

RESENTMENT: ill will felt because of a real or imagined wrong

RESERVATION: the setting of limiting conditions

RESERVOIR: reserve

RESIGN: to give up deliberately

RESOLUTION: a strong vow or promise

RESOLVE: determination

RESOLUTELY: marked by firm determination

RESOURCES: sources of supply or support, available means

RESPOND: react favorably

RESPONSIBLE: answerable, accountable

RESPONSIBILITIES: matters that someone is required to take care

of

RESTORATIVE: something that restores to consciousness, vigor, or health

RESTORED: to bring back to a former or normal condition

RETALIATE: to get revenge

RETALIATION: revenge

REVELATION: communicating divine truth, something revealed by God to man

REVIEW: to look at or study again

REVISE: correct or improve

REVIVE: recall

REVOLTED: disgusted

REVOLUTIONARY: radial, extreme

REVOLUTIONIZED: changed fundamentally or completely

REVULSION: strong distaste

RIDICULE: make fun of

RIGHTEOUS: acting in accord with divine or moral law

RIGOROUS: severely exact, precise

RIOT: profligate behavior

RIVAL: to be in competition with

RIVALRIES: competitiveness

ROARING: extremely

ROBUST: having vigorous health

ROUSE: to awaken or get active

ROUSE HIMSELF: to awaken or get active

RUINOUS: destructive

RUMOR: unverified information of uncertain origin, usually spread by word of mouth, gossip, hearsay

RUN-AROUND: deceptive or delaying action especially in response to a request

RUTHLESS: cruel, merciless

SACRIFICE: give up for the sake of something else

SAFE: free from harm or risk

SAINT: angel

SALLY: outburst

SAMARITAN: one ready and generous in helping those in distress

SANE: able to anticipate appraise the effect of one's actions

SANELY: rationally, sensibly

SANITY: whole or sound mind

SANITARIUMS: places for the care of the chronically ill

SASH: a fixed or movable framework

SCALES: impediments to seeing rightly

SCANT: meager or inadequate

SCHEME: a plan or program of action

SCHISMS: separations

SCHOOL: persons who hold a common doctrine or follow the same teacher

SCIENTIFIC: relating or exhibiting the methods or principles of science

SCOFF: to show or treat with contempt by derisive acts or language SCOPE: the range of one's perception, thought or action

SCRAP HEAP: left over and unwanted, worthless, junk in a pile

SCRAPE: to make one's way with difficulty

SCRAPES: quarrels

SCRAPING: bowing low

SECTARIAN: of, relating to, or characteristic of a sect or sectarian

SECURITY: freedom from risk or danger, safety

SEDATIVE: a drug that calms or eases tension

SEETHING: violent internal excitement

SELF: an individual's typical character or behavior

SELF-APPRAISAL: the act of determining the value of self

SELF-CENTERED: concerned solely with one's own desires, needs, or

interests

SELF-CENTEREDNESS: selfishness

SELF-CONFIDENCE: trust in oneself or one's abilities

SELF-CONSCIOUS: intensely aware of oneself

SELF-DECEPTION: the act of deceiving oneself

SELF-DELUSION: tricking or lying to oneself

SELF-DESTRUCTION: destruction of oneself

SELF-DISCIPLINE: correction or regulation of oneself for the sake of improvement

SELF-ESTEEM: satisfaction with oneself

SELF-IMPOSED: voluntarily assumed

SELF-PITY: dwelling on one's sorrows or misfortunes

SELF-PROPULSION: propulsion by one's own power

SELF-RELIANCE: dependence upon one's own capabilities of judgement or resources

SELF-SACRIFICE: sacrifice of oneself or one's interests for others or for a cause or a idea

SELF-SEEKER: practicing the act or practice of selfishly advancing one's own ends

SELF-SEEKING: pursuing only for oneself

SELF-WILL: stubborn or willful adherence to one's own desires or ideas

SELFISH: concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself

SELFISHNESS: concern chiefly or only with oneself

SENSATIONAL: arousing or tending to arouse a quick, intense, and usually superficial interest

SENSES: conscious awareness

SENSIBLE: reasonable, wise

SENSATION: awareness

SENSITIVENESS: hypersensitive

SENTIMENT: emotion

SERENITY: total calmness, tranquility

SERVANT: one that performs duties about the person or home of a master or personnel employer

SERVICE: contributions to the welfare of others, a helpful act

SERVILE: behaving like a slave or an inferior

SEVERE: of a great degree

SEVERELY AFFLICTED: greatly troubled or injured

SHADOWY: faintly

SHAKY: lacking stability

SHIELD: protect

SHORTCOMINGS: deficiencies, flaws, faults

SHRINK: to be shy or reluctant to do something

SHUN: avoid deliberately

SHY: timid, reluctant

SHYING: drawing away from

SICKENED: causing sickness

SIDECAR: a one-wheeled car for a single passenger, attached to the side of a motorcycle

SIGNIFICANCE: importance

SIMPLE: not involved or complicated

SIMPLE KIT OF SPIRITUAL TOOLS: the twelve steps

SIMPLE RELIGIOUS IDEA: step two

SINCERE: honest

SITUATION: problem

SIXTH SENSE: a power of perception like but not one of the five senses, a keen intuitive power

SKELETON: something shameful and kept secret

SKEPTIC: one who instinctively or habitually doubts, questions, or disagrees with assertions or generally accepted conclusions

SKEPTICAL: doubtful

SKEPTICISM: a doubting or questioning attitude or state of mind, disbelief

SKETCH: a brief description

SKIMPED: to give insufficient or barely sufficient attention or effort to

SLANDER: a false statement that damages another's reputation

SLENDER: limited or inadequate in amount, meager

SLIP: an unintentional mistake, a sudden mishap

SLYLY: clever in concealing ones aims or ends

SMARTS: endures sharp distress

SNAG: a concealed or unexpected difficulty or obstacle

SOLEMN: marked by the invocation of a religious sanction

SOLEMN OATH: serious promise to fulfill a pledge

SOLICIT: to strongly urge

SOLITARY: going alone

SORDID: dirty, filthy

SOTS: chronic drunkards

SOUGHT: tried to find, searched

SOUNDNESS: correctness

SPEARHEADS: leading elements, forces, or influence in an undertaking

SPECIFIC: exact

SPECIMEN: an individual item or part representative of a class or whole

SPECTACULAR: sensational

SPECTRES: something that haunts the mind, ghosts

SPECULATION: assuming a business risk in hope of gain

SPHERES: social order

SPINELESS: lacking strength of character

SPIRIT OF THE UNIVERSE: God

SPIRITUAL: divine

SPIRITUAL ANSWER: step three

SPIRITUAL AWAKENING: a hugh emotional displacement and rearrangement of ideas, emotions, and attitudes, a personality change which occurs slowly, gradually over time

SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE: a hugh emotional displacement and rearrangement of ideas, emotions, and attitudes, a personality change which occurs suddenly, quickly, sudden awareness of a higher power or God

SPIRITUAL STEP: step three

SPIRITUAL STRUCTURE: the twelve steps

SPOT: a position usually of difficulty or embarrassment

SPREE: a drinking bout

SQUANDER: to spend wastefully or extravagantly

STABILITY: not changing, steadiness

STAFF MEMBER: Dr. Percy Polick, a psychiatrist

STARK: strong

STARRY-EYED: characterized by dreamy thinking

STARTING POINT: where work or activity begins

STATUS: condition

STEEL GIRDER: a horizontal part of a structure that supports a vertical load

STEER: direct, guide

STEERAGE: worst part of the ship

STEP: a stage in a process

STERILITY: deficient in ideas or originality

STICKLER: one who exists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something

STIGMA: a mark or shame or discredit

STIMULATING: exciting, arouse

STIRRING: inspiring

STRAGGLE: to wander from the direct course or way

STREAM: a continuous moving procession

STRENGTH: power

STRENUOUS: very active, energetic

STUMBLE: to fall in sin or waywardness

SUBLIME: lofty, grand, splendid

SUBSCRIBE: support

SUBSEQUENTLY: following in time, order, or place; succeeding

SUBTLE: difficult to understand, crafty

SUBSTITUTE: a person or thing that takes the place of another

SUCCUMBED: to give way to superior force, yield

SUFFICIENT: enough to meet the needs of a situation

SUFFICES: to be enough or adequate

SUITABLE: appropriate, fitting, becoming

SUMPTUOUS: expensive, luxurious

SUPERSTITION: a belief or practice resulting from ignorance

SUPPLANTED: to take the place of

SURMOUNT: surpass or exceed in amount, overcome, conquer

SURPASS: exceed

SUSPICION: doubt or distrust, a feeling that something is wrong without definite evidence

SWALLOWED: taken in mentally

SWAY: controlling influence

SWING: flourish

SYMBOL: something that stands for or suggests something else

SYMPATHETIC: feeling compassion

SYMPATHY: compassion

SYMPTOM: evidence of disease

SYNTHETIC: produced artificially, manmade

TACT: the proper thing to say or to do to avoid giving offense TACTFUL: knowing what to say or do to avoid offending someone

TAKE UP THEIR BEDS: get sober

TALLIED: corresponded, matched

TANGENT: diverting from an original purpose or course, irrelevant

TANGIBLE: capable of being seen

TAP: to let out or cause to flow by piercing or by drawing a plug from the containing vessel

TEDIOUS: tiresome because of length

TEETOTALER: one who practices complete abstinence from alcoholic drinks

TEMPER: to exercise control over

TEMPERAMENT: makeup, the combination of mental and emotional traits of a person

TEMPERANCE PLEDGE: a promise to abstain from drinking

TEMPERATE: exercising moderation and self-restraint

TEMPTATION: being lured to do wrong

TEMPORIZE: to act to suit the time or the occasion

TENDENCIES: drift

TENETS: beliefs

TENETS OF THE OXFORD GROUP: known as the "Four Absolutes" of Love, Honesty, Purity and Unselfishness

TERMINATED: brought to an end or halt, concluded, finished

TERROR: state of intense fear

TESTIMONY: open acknowledgement

THE DOCTOR: Doctor Silkworth

THEOLOGICAL: the study and interpretation of God and of religious beliefs, faiths, practices and experiences

THEORIZING: speculating

THEORY: a plausible principle used to explain something

THERAPEUTIC: of or relating to the treatment of disease or disorders by remedial agents or methods

THERAPY: remedial treatment of bodily disorder, psychotherapy

THIN ICE: on dangerous ground

THREADBARE IDEA: ineffectively stale

THRESHOLD: the plank, stone, or piece of timber that lies under a door

THUNDERBOLT: a thing that resembles lightning in suddenness

THUS: because of this or that

TIDINGS: information, news (tidings of great joy)

TIGHT: drunk

TOLERANCE: allowing or respecting the beliefs or behavior of others

TOOK THE BULL BY THE HORNS: didn't shy away, met head on

TOTS: small children

TRADITIONS: information, beliefs and customs handed down by each generation to the next

TRAGEDIES: dramatic, disastrous events

TRAGIC: calamity

TRAINS: a series of parts or elements that together constitute a system of producing a result

TRAITS: distinguishing qualities

TRANSCEND: to rise above or go beyond the limits of

TRANSFORMATIONS: acts, processes, or instances of changing

TRANSMIT: to cause or allow to spread

TRANSMITTED: sent from one person to another, convey

TREADMILL: a mill worked by an animal treading an endless belt

TREMBLES: to be affected with fear

TREMBLING: shaking involuntarily from fear or anxiety

TRIFLE: something of little value or importance

TRIVIAL: of little worth or importance

TRIUMPH: a notable success

TRIUMPHANT: victorious, conquering

TRUDGE: to walk or march steadily and usually laboriously

TRUTH: actually

TUMBLER: a drinking glass without foot or stem

TURMOIL: a state of commotion or disturbance

TWINKLING: instant

TWIST: distort, perverted

TWO MEN: Rowland H., sober in 1932, and Cebra G., both were members of the New York Oxford Group

TYPICAL: conforming to a type

UGLY: quarrelsome

ULTRA-MODERN: the very latest

ULTIMATE: basic, fundamental, unable of further analysis, division, or separation

UNABATED: not decreased in force or intensity

UNCANNY: being beyond what is normal or expected

UNCOMMUNICATIVE: not inclined to talk, reserved

UNDUE: quick

UNFORTUNATES: unsuccessful or unsuitable people

UNFORTUNATELY: unhappily

UNIQUELY: the only one of its kind

UNITY: oneness

UNMANAGEABLE: having trouble with personal relationships, can't

control emotional natures, prey to misery and depression, having a feeling of uselessness, full of fear and unhappiness, can't seem to be of real help to others

UNSTABLE: tending strongly to change, not constant, fluctuating

UPHEAVALS: extreme agitations, radical changes

UPROOTED: removed completely

URGE: strong desire to do or say something

URGENT: calling for immediate attention

USELESSNESS: not valuable or productive

UTMOST: extreme

UTOPIA: any ideal place or state

UTTER: complete, total, absolute

VAGARY: a whimsical, wild, or unusual idea or notion

VAGUE: not clearly defined, grasped, or understood

VAGUELY: not clearly

VAIN: foolish, silly

VALE: valley

VALID: well-grounded, sound

VANISH: disappear or become invisible

VANITY: inflated pride in oneself

VARIETY: something differing from others of the same general kind

VARIOUSLY: in various ways

VAST: huge

VEERED: changed direction or course

VENT: express, release

VENTURE: an undertaking involving chance

VERITABLE: being truly or very much so

VERY FIRST CASE: their very first case was Eddie R., their first successful case was Bill D. who became AA #3

VERSION: a form or variant of a type or original

VESTIGES: visible traces, evidence or signs of something that has once existed but exists or appears no more

VICARIOUS: experienced or realized through imaginative or sympathetic participation in the experience of another

VICISSITUDE: any of one's ups and downs

VIGOROUS: strong

VIRTUALLY: for all practical purpose

VIRTUOUS: morally excellent, righteous, pure

VISION: a supernatural appearance that conveys a revelation

VISUAL PROOF: evidence that can be seen

VITAL: essential, of first importance

VOLUME: book

WALK A FREE MAN: free from bondage of self

WALTER HAGEN: professional golfer of the 1920s

WAR FEVER: nervousness, restless excitement

WARPED: distorted

WARRANT: a precept or writ issued by a competent magistrate authorizing an officer to make an arrest, justify

WATCHWORD: a word or phase used as a sign of recognition among members of the same society, class, or group

WATER WAGON: abstaining from alcoholic beverages

WELFARE: the state of doing well especially in respect to good fortune, happiness, well-being, or property

WAYWARD: unpredictable, opposite to what is desired or expected

WELFARE: the state of doing well especially in respect to good fortune, happiness, well-being, or property

WELL-KNOWN DOCTOR: William Duncan Silkworth, M.D.

WET BLANKET: depress

WET BRAIN: brain damage caused by drinking

WITCH-BURNERS: those who deliberately harass those with differing views

WHISTLING IN THE DARK: to keep up one's courage

WHOLEHEARTEDLY: completely and sincerely

WHOLESALE: performed on a large scale

WHOOPE PARTIES: drinking and gaiety

WILL: strong desire

WILL POWER: strong determination

WINDY: lacking substance

WISH: have a desire for

WITHDRAW: to become socially or emotionally detached

WON'T BURN ME: will not hurt me or get me drunk

WORLD-RENOWNED HOSPITAL: Bellevue Hospital, New York

WORLDLINESS: lack of interest or concern with present existence

WORDY: containing many and usually too many words

WORK: physical or mental effort or activity

WORLDLY: of, relating to, or devoted to this world and its pursuits

WORRY: fear, anxiety

WORSHIPPED: extravagant respect or admiration for or devotion to an object of esteem

WORSHIPPERS: people showing extravagant respect

WRIGHT BROTHERS: American pioneers in aviation

WRITHING: twisting and turning this way and that (writhe in pain)

WRONG: harm done to others

WRONGS: resentments (wrong judgements), (fears) wrong believing, wrong actions (harms done to others)

WREST: to gain by determined labor

WROUGHT: harm done others

YEARNING: a urgent longing

YIELD: to give up