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65 consumerist

a person who prioritizes buying goods and services

Used by: Lupe Fiasco

66 contingency

n. something that might happen

Used by: Kazuo Ishiguro

67 contumelious

rude and disrespectful in speech or behavior

Used by: Lionel Lebron

68 conversational

adj. characteristic of informal spoken language or conversation

Used by: Ken Jennings

69 convivial

adj. devoted to feasting or to goodfellowship in eating or drinking

Used by: Stephen Fry

70 corporatist

a person or system that supports the organization of society into interest groups

Used by: Matt Taibbi

71 cosmological

adj. related to the study of the universe and its nature.

Used by: Neil deGrasse Tyson

72 covenantal

an agreement or promise that involves responsibilities

Used by: Marilynne Robinson

73 cryptographic

relating to the art of writing or solving codes

Used by: Aesop Rock

74 daemonic

relating to a powerful and often chaotic force

Used by: Camille Paglia

75 decorous

adj. characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste in manners and conduct

Used by: Peggy Noonan

76 deferential

adj. showing respect

Used by: Kazuo Ishiguro

77 deliberative

relating to careful consideration or discussion

Used by: Lionel Lebron

78 demagogic

related to a leader who seeks support by appealing to popular desires and prejudices rather than ...

Used by: Victor Davis Hanson

79 deregulatory

adj. related to the removal or reduction of government rules and restrictions.

Used by: Matt Taibbi

80 deterrence

n. anything that prevents or discourages.

Used by: Victor Davis Hanson

81 dialectical

relating to the art of investigating or discussing the truth of opinions

Used by: Cornel West

82 Dionysian

adj. 1 of pertaining to or honoring Dionysus or Bacchus; 2 recklessly uninhibited; unrestrained; ...

Used by: Camille Paglia

83 diplomatically

adv. in a tactful manner

Used by: Fareed Zakaria

84 disillusioned

v. to take away false beliefs or hopes; remove the illusions of.

Used by: Kazuo Ishiguro

85 disinformation

n. deliberately false information leaked by a government; as to confuse another nation's intellig...

Used by: Matt Taibbi

86 dispositive

having the power to settle a matter or determine an outcome

Used by: Lionel Lebron

87 ebullient

adj. overflowing with fervor or enthusiasm or excitement

Used by: Stephen Fry

88 electromagnetic

adj. pertaining to or exhibiting magnetism produced by electric charge in motion

Used by: Neil deGrasse Tyson

89 elegiac

adj. 1 Of relating to or involving elegy or mourning or expressing sorrow for that which is irrec...

Used by: Peggy Noonan

90 embryological

relating to the study of embryos and their development

Used by: Siddhartha Mukherjee

91 empirically

adv. in a manner capable of being proved or disproved by observation or experiment

Used by: Neil deGrasse Tyson

92 encomiastic

adj. of an encomiast of or like an encomium; eulogistic

Used by: Shashi Tharoor

93 encomium

n. a formal or discriminating expression of praise

Used by: Stephen Fry

94 encyclopedic

adj. 1 comprehending a wide variety of information; 2 pertaining to or of the nature of an encycl...

Used by: Ken Jennings

95 epigenetic

relating to changes in gene activity that do not involve alterations to the DNA sequence

Used by: Siddhartha Mukherjee

96 epistemological

relating to the study of knowledge and how we know what we know

Used by: Marilynne Robinson