Vocabulary

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“Meeting Once Again”

AESTHETICS: pleasing in appearance; appreciative of or responsive to beauty

ABSTRACTION: absence of mind or preoccupation

APHORISM: a concise statement of a principle

AXIOM: a statement accepted as true as the basis for argument or inference

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“Learning is an Act of Courage”

GOAL: the end toward which effort is directed

POSSIBILITY: potential or prospective value; the condition of being possible

COURAGE: mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty

MANTRA: a mystical formula of invocation

LEARNING: knowledge or skill acquired by instruction or study

CREATE: to bring into existence

STRUCTURE: the arrangement of particles or parts in a substance or body; the action of building

DICHOTOMY: a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities; something with seemingly contradictory qualities

SYMBOL: something that stands for or suggests something else by reason of relationship, association, convention, or accidental resemblance

JUXTAPOSITION: the act or an instance of placing two or more things side by side often to compare or contrast or to create an interesting effect

COMPARE: to examine the character or qualities of especially in order to discover resemblances or differences

CONTRAST: appraise in respect to differences

COURAGE: mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty

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"Soft Power"

SEE: to perceive by the eye; to form a mental picture of; to imagine a possibility

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“Assemblages”


REASSEMBLING: to bring or put together the parts of something again

MATERIAL: of or relating to matter rather than form; of or relating to the subject matter of reasoning

PROCESS: a natural phenomenon marked by gradual changes that lead toward a particular result

ASSOCIATION: an organization of persons having a common interest

CREATE: to bring into existence

CONSTRUCT: to make or form by combining or arranging parts or elements

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“Creating and Constructing Knowledge Content”

GENERATIVE: having the power or function of generating, originating, producing, or reproducing

FORMATION: an act of giving form or shape to something or of taking form

NASCENT: coming or having recently come into existence

TRANSMISSION: n act, process, or instance of transmitting

CONSTRUCTION: the arrangement and connection of words or groups of words in a sentence

REMEMBER: to bring to mind or think of again

FORGET: to lose the remembrance of; to be unable to think of or recall; to treat with inattention or disregard

KNOW: to perceive directly : have direct cognition of

KNOWLEDGE: the fact or condition of knowing something with familiarity gained through experience or association

CONTENT: the topics or matter treated in a written work

CREATE: to bring into existence

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“Sharing the World: Reading your social meeting reflections”


AFFIRMATION: a positive assertion

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“Further Reflection on the Social Meeting”


THOUGHT: an individual act or product of thinking

INSIGHT: the act or result of apprehending the inner nature of things or of seeing intuitively

UNDERSTANDING: the power of comprehending

INTUITION: quick and ready insight; knowledge or conviction gained by intuition

GRASP: to lay hold of with the mind

FEELING: appreciative or responsive awareness or recognition

EMPATHY: the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner

SENSIBILITY: peculiar susceptibility to a pleasurable or painful impression

EXPRESSION: something that manifests, embodies, or symbolizes something else

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“Idealizations”


IDEAL: conforming exactly to a law or standard

IDEALIZATION: to from ideals; to treat idealistically

PLURAL: consisting of/containing more than one or more than one kind or class

DEPICTION: a representation in words or images of someone or something

INTERPRET: to conceive in the light of individual belief, judgment, or circumstance

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“Society of Consumers”


VIGNETTE: a picture that shades off gradually into the surrounding paper

EPISODE: an event that is distinctive and separate although part of a larger series

EVENT: an occurrence; something that happens

VOICE: to express in words

CREATE: to bring into existence

POSSIBILITY: the condition or fact of being possible

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“Living Mindfully in Cyber-Culture”


LITERACY: the quality or state of being literate

KNOW-HOW: knowledge of how to do something smoothly and efficiently

DEPLOY: to spread out, utilize, or arrange for a deliberate purpose

ATTENTION: the act or state of applying the mind to something

PARTICIPATION: the act of participating; inclusion

COLLABORATION: to work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor

NETWORK: an interconnected or interrelated chain, group, or system

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“Thinking Process”

DECISION: a report of a conclusion

DIFFERENCE: the quality or state of being dissimilar or different

DEVELOPMENT: the act, process, or result of developing

SOLITUDE: the quality or state of being alone

MEANING: the thing one intends to convey especially by language

PROCESS: a natural phenomenon marked by gradual changes that lead toward a particular result

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“Apperception”

SHARING: to partake of, use, experience, occupy, or enjoy with others

WARRANTS: sanction, authorization, ground, justification

ATTENTION: the act or state of applying the mind to something

TRANSPARENCY: the quality or state of being transparent

AUTHENTIC: worthy of acceptance or belief as conforming to or based on fact