Definitions

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inveterate

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Inveterate means habitual, chronic, or established. The antonym is novel or new.

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sanguine

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Sanguine means optimistic or cheerful about one's prospects for the future.
The antonym is pessimistic.

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intransigent

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Intransigent means resisting compromise.
The antonym is conciliatory, or seeking to appease or bring together.

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zenith

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Zenith is equivalent to apogee or highest point.
Both zenith and nadir are astronomical terms, but both are more commonly used to mean "highest point" and "lowest point," respectively.

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profundity

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# reconditeness: wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound; "the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs"
# intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc; "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence"
# astuteness: the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas

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platitude

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A platitude is something unoriginal or commonplace, while a profundity is something deep or profound.

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ignominious

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Ignominious means disgraceful and that is the opposite of honorable. Well done.

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trifling

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If something is a trifling matter it is something trivial or unimportant.
The antonym is important.

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adduce

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An allegation (also called adduction) Adduce is a claim of a fact by a party in a pleading, which the party claims to be able to prove. Allegations remain assertions without proof, until they can be proved.

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deduce

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Misconceive means to misconstrue or misinterpret. To deduce means to reach a (reasonable) conclusion using logic.

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disparate

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Disparate means fundamentally different or distinct, which is the opposite of uniform (where uniform is used as an adjective).

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moribund

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Moribund means stagnant, decaying, or dying.Vibrant (meaning lively or exciting) is the most nearly opposite in meaning to moribund among the choices given here.

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indolent

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Indolent means inactive or slothful, so active is more directly opposite in meaning

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approbation

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means approval.

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Haircut (finance)

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In finance, a haircut is a percentage that is subtracted from the par value of assets that are being used as collateral.[1] The size of the haircut reflects the perceived risk associated with holding the assets. However, the lender has a lien for the entirety of the assets.

For example, United States Treasury bills, which are seen as fairly safe, might have a haircut of 1%, while for stock options, which are seen as highly risky, the haircut might be as high as 30%. In other words, a $1000 treasury bill will be accepted as collateral for a $990 loan, while a $1000 stock option might only allow a $700 loan.
Lower haircuts allow for more leverage. Haircut has an important role on many kinds of trades, for example for Repo or Reverse Repo.

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public choice theory

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In economics, public choice theory is the use of modern economic tools to study problems that are traditionally in the province of political science. From the perspective of political science, it may be seen as the subset of positive political theory which deals with subjects in which material interests are assumed to predominate.

In particular, it studies the behavior of politicians and government officials as mostly self-interested agents and their interactions in the social system either as such or under alternative constitutional rules. These can be represented a number of ways, including standard constrained utility maximization, game theory, or decision theory. Public choice analysis has roots in positive analysis ("what is") but is often used for normative purposes ("what ought to be"), to identify a problem or suggest how a system could be improved by changes in constitutional rules

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Misanthropy

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Misanthropy is generalized dislike, distrust, disgust, contempt or hatred of the human species or human nature. A misanthrope is someone who holds such views or feelings. The word's origin is from Greek words μῖσος (misos, "hatred") and ἄνθρωπος (anthrōpos, "man, human being").