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ABDITIVE (A'BDITIVE) adj.[from abdo, to hide.] That which has the power or quality of hiding.Dict.
I'm not abnegation, I'm not dauntless, I am Divergent
ADVENTITIOUS (ADVENTI'TIOUS) adj.[adventitius, Lat.]That which advenes; accidental; supervenient; extrinsically added, not essentially inherent.
To appear unambitious amongst the ambitious is to invite loathing or fear. To be in the game, but not playing with intent to win, is to be the enemy.
incurable lover of the grotesque
An intimate enemy, death, capricious and cruel, ultimately invincible.
Audentes fortuna iuvat. Fortune favors the bold.
unbounded vanity.
Vitanda est improba siren desidia. (One must avoid that wicked temptress, Laziness.)
Getawayfrommeyoumiserablelittlecreep.
Who are our basic enemies? This is a secret, unknown even to these basic enemies. - Xaviar Skolcamp, Over-Centennial Fellow of the Institute, indulgently, in response to a journalist's too-searching question
Off, end this lies it's not awesome. Please take this crap, second very clever and smart, but I want to add suffix (-ass), it's very suitable, isn't it?
IMPOSTOR n. A rival aspirant to public honors.
When you demand the nature of my motives, you reveal the style of your thinking to be callow, captious, superficial, craven, uncertain and impudent.
Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.
Intended to subserve. That certain sultanism of his brain, which had otherwise in a good degree remained unmanifested; through those forms that same sultanism became incarnate in an irresistible
Nefarious purposes translation: For disgusting demon sex and the birth of the Devil incarnate. Nice.
Paranoia, the destroyer.
Ally." Peeta says the words slowly, tasting it. "Friend. Lover. Victor. Enemy. Fiancee. Target. Mutt. Neighbor. Hunter. Tribute. Ally. I'll add it to the list of words I use to try to figure you out. The problem is, I can't tell what's real anymore, and what's made up.
UXORIOUSNESS, n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one's own wife.
My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me. Inside me is the un-me
Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life's means!
The Diabolical sometimes assumes the aspect of the Good, or even embodies itself completely in its form. If this remains concealedfrom me, I am of course defeated, for this Good is more tempting than the genuine Good.
This is the antonym of excellent.
covetousness. But,
Abomination . . ." The word escaped him in a slow breath. "And more besides," I agreed. "Now forgive me." Father Gomst found his wits at last, but still he held back. "What do you want with me, Lucifer?" A fair question. "I want to win," I said. He
Say she had nefarious motives."
Davis looked over at Jack with a bemused grin. "Nefarious. This is what we get when we hire a
Yale boy."
"You missed sacrosanct earlier. And taciturn and glowering," Jack said.
"What's glowering?"
"Me, apparently.
A suspicious person is the rival of him that deceives, both seem to practice a knowledge of cunning device, and equable sense of disengenuous merit.
Sometimes duplicity and treason are markers of the enemy, and sometimes, the failed intention of a masterful ally. But, nevertheless, as they burden you with a vexing brand of love, they become nothing more than the kiss of Judas, pressing a crown of thorns into your flesh.
There's no word worth your life.
Abracadabra, moron.
It's my choice now, no matter what the test says. Abnegation. Dauntless. Erudite. Divergent.
The whole plan of extermination was nothing less than a cold blooded, calculated political measure, having for its object the annihilation of a superior element in the population, which might prove troublesome, and to this must be added the motive of greed.
Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not.
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
Nothing, Ismet thought, makes a more fanatical official than a Latin. Organization is alien to their natures, but once they get a taste for it they take to it like drink. They claim to be impulsive, but they're the most bureaucratic of all, whatever they say.
I've always been a monster,' Scapegrace told her, 'but now, finally, my physical for reflects my inner darkness.'
'You smell terrible.'
'That's the smell of evil.'
'It's like rancid meat and bad eggs.'
'Evil, Scapegrace insisted.
Bad spellers of the world untie!
Ambition is torment enough for an enemy; for it affords as much discontentment in enjoying as in want, making men like poisoned rats, which, when they have tasted of their bane, cannot rest till they drink, and then can much less rest till they die
Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.
Ignominy thirsts for consideration.
When merciless ambition, or mad zeal, has led two hosts of dupes to battlefield, That, blind, they there may dig each other's graves, And call the sad work glory ...
Villainy, when detected, never gives up, but boldly adds impudence to imposture.
that heavy, indifferent lassitude which is not the will to laziness, but the frustration of the will to a secret violence that no lesser action can satisfy. That
properispomenon.
Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies.
[Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
The only words free of suspicious motives will be the ones I find in books.
Mistress-like, its brilliance vain, highly capricious and inane ...
Inexpedient: Not calculated to advance one's interests.
Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back; And is a swelling, and the last affection A high mind can put off; being both a rebel Unto the soul and reason, and enforceth All laws, all conscience, treads upon religion, and offereth violence to nature's self.
Antsy, adj.
I swore I would never take you to the opera again.
The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurity.
[Lat., Majorum gloria posteris lumen est, neque bona neque mala in occulto patitur.]
an enemy is not more baneful than a flatterer.
Abnegation who switch to Dauntless become... I don't know, soldiers, I guess. Revolutionaries. That's what he could be, if he trusted himself more" he adds."If Four wasn't so plagued with self-doubt, he would be one hell of a leader, I think.
I am malicious because I am miserable
Keep what you have got; the known evil is best.
[Lat., Habeas ut nactus; nota mala res optima est.]
You are, and always have been, the one person in my life who has the ability to destroy me. For years, I clung to you, knowing that, as long as I kept you close, I didn't have to be scared of anything else. You, Quarry Page, are the embodiment of my greatest fear.
Errare humanum est, sed perseverare diabolicum: 'to err is human, but to persist (in the mistake) is diabolical.
Only the dead are truly smart, truly cool. Nothing touches them. While I live, however, I side with bumbling suffering crooked life, with anger rather than boredom, with sweet lust, hunger & carelessness ... against the icy avant-guard & its fashionable premonitions of the sepulcher.
Ambition, idly vain; revenge and malice swell her train.
Bursar?"
"Yes, Archchancellor?"
"You ain't a member of some secret society or somethin', are you?"
"Me? No, Archchancellor."
"Then it'd be a damn good idea to take your underpants off your head.
Another words, aWords-- Barry Ford
Ex Malo Bounum (good out of evil).
You bore ne rigid.
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire: it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
Precipitous creature,' Kruppe muttered, reaching for the mug of wine the man had left behind. 'Ah, look at this,' he said, frowning up at Crokus, 'nigh two-thirds full. A potential waste!' Kruppe drank it down in one swift gulp, then sighed. 'Said potential averted, Dessembrae be praised.
You are a devious woman, Blackthorn,' she said.
'I prefer the term strategic thinker.
Adorkable. It's in its own category.
Ursan flourished the knife, threatening me. "Talk, or I'll start cutting off body parts."
"Yours? Or mine?" I kept my voice steady despite my insides twisting into goo. "It's an important distinction.
The evil plan is most harmful to the planner
When there's a negative word or expression-immaculate, for example-but the positive is almost never used, and you choose to use it, you become rather amusing. Or pretentious. Or pretentiously amusing, which can sometimes be good. In any case, you are uncovering a buried word.
Secrets and Malice
The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.
The ungovernable passion for wealth.
[Lat., Opum furiata cupido.]
A deistical prater, fit to sit in the chimney-corner of a pot-house, and make blasphemous comments on the one greasy newspaper fingered by beer-swilling tinkers.
Hyperentrepreneurs that make even hardcore capitalists nervous.
DESTINY (Determined Effort So Tanacious It Negates Yuck)
An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur.
Actions rare and sudden do commonly proceed from fierce necessity, of else from some oblique design, which is ashamed to show itself in the public road.
Admirable." Translation: Slut. "I'm confident you could have ripped the vampire's heart out with no help from Sir Conall. You would never need a hero to rescue you." Translation: Amazon.
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
There is a mortal breed most full of futility. In contempt of what is at hand, they strain into the future, hunting impossibilities on the wings of ineffectual hopes.
This fierce basilisk, this ungrateful, cruel, supercilious wretch, will neither seek, serve, own, nor follow you in any shape whatever.
stupid, overbarbering, possesive, fur ball
Ordinary is the door for extraordinary.
mission impossible,
I am pleased to have an enemy who is not symbolic.
No use, no use!' said the King. 'She runs so fearfully quick. You might as well try to catch a Bandersnatch! But I'll make a memorandum about her, if you like-she's a dear good creature,' he repeated softly to himself, as he opened his memorandum-book. 'Do you spell "creature" with a double "e"?
I am a vanity eater, a machinelike eater, a suppresser-of-feels eater.
Procrastination is the junior enemy of action; cowardice, the senior.
an incantation of hatred.
A bad word that I can't say that starts with f.
There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs be employed by any satyrist or comic poet; and that is AVARICE.
-"Expansion to your ego, friend".
-"At your expense".
Ambition is like love, impatient of both delays and rivals
I dislike people who get out of things unscraped. No scars, no scratches. Agnosceo veteris vestigia flamme. Refined through a scar.
Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original of vices, the moth of holiness, the blinder of hearts, turning medicines into maladies, and remedies into diseases.
My determinate voyage is mere extravagancy
I am very proud, revengeful,
ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have
thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape,
or time to act them in.
In the pseudoiterative, one performs the ritual of the day attentive to both the joy of the familiar and the shiver of the accidental.