acrimonious

Gingrich's patterns of speech are largely analytically acute, and sometimes aesthetically interesting, but substantively, they are very often lacking. Language is supposed to be a package that carries substance, but Gingrich is sometimes so pleased with his uninterrupted stream of words, that he mistakes it for an actual flow of ideas.

If you want to make sustained money, you need to do some Craigslist arbitrage.

As data sets have grown in size and complexity, direct hands-on data analysis has increasingly been augmented with indirect, automatic data processing.

From the country’s southern reaches to its northern capital, the A6’s slick frame and invariably tinted windows exude an aura of state privilege, authority and, to many ordinary citizens, a whiff of corruption.

Word of advice, at least read up on some liberal websites and stuff once you are done with Rush and Savage; it'll help you think/respond critically to some of their blather.

Déjà vu is an uncanny feeling or illusion of having already seen or experienced something that is being experienced for the first time.

The whole wave-duality nature of light is also a bit discerning. They don't seem very "well-defined" to me.

Numerology is any of many systems, traditions or beliefs in a mystical or esoteric relationship between numbers and physical objects or living things.

Terms of abuse such as jerk and negative euphemisms such as bottom feeder are pejoratives, words you use when you want to call someone a bad name.
He's physically challenged is the politically correct way to say he's handicapped.

It's not a euphemism--note Kira's excellent explanation.

Politically correct is established protocol whereas euphemism is also a place to creatively soften the blow for the listener.
Political correctness means to decide upon which term to use for things/ people. For example, it is politically correct to say "black" but not "coloured". This does not mean that "black" is a euphemism. It is not. It does not soften the proper term, it IS the proper term.

Also called mercy killing. the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die, as by withholding extreme medical measures, a person or animal suffering from an incurable, especially a painful, disease or condition.
2.
painless death.

maybe I can use that fact to leverage into positions that involve more interesting work, especially with a masters?

mentally maladjusted

Hurrying topside, the 18-year-old seaman second-class was confronted by pandemonium he was unable to immediately comprehend -- flames shooting skyward, roiling clouds of dark, acrid smoke, swarms of fighter-bombers buzzing low overhead.

Pork or Pork Barrel Legislation - Pejorative terms for federal appropriations, bills, or policies that provide funds to benefit a legislator's district or state, with the implication that the legislator presses for enactment of such benefits to ingratiate himself or herself with constituents rather than on the basis of an impartial, objective assessment of need or merit.

He would conduct family worship at sixteen years of age, with great seriousness and propriety.

Tort reform allows a person to sue for actual losses, but limits how much they can sue for in punitive damages. This is necessary to limit liability and keep small businesses from going bankrupt, and keep insurance rates lower for everyone.

On the other hand, IT is often reticent to give analysts significant freedom to query databases because of the harm they can do (wise!) because data miners have in general a poor understanding of how databases work and which queries are dangerous or computationally expensive.

Polls have shown for 15 years that Gingrich’s persona badly turns off independents…And none of this even touches the megalomania of a man who used to write notes to himself describing himself as “definer of civilization, Teacher of the rules of civilization,” – those are direct quotes – and who also would refer to himself, in the presence of other people, as a, quote, “world historical figure.”

He seems sort of the exact opposite of what the ‘Nistas said they saw in Palin, to me – the epitome of crony capitalism, consummate establishment insider, morally…um…suspect?

Someone was extremely verbose about it in Wiki.

the epitome of crony capitalism, consummate establishment insider, morally…um…suspect?

n this case, unlike the others, Cain took the unorthodox step of issuing a denial in advance.

Leah and Zilpah were surrogate mothers

how stupid do you have to be to have such a sordid past and not realize it would be revealed if you run for Presiden

She was wiling to selll her soul to stay off the streets. She’s stoic b/c it was just an arrangement and obviously meant nothing to her. She told some people around her — they were going to the press with the information.

It means a person has removed their emotion from a situation. For example, Jack sat stoically as he awaited his death sentence. Jane was stoic about having failed the test and showed little to no emotion.

People who are stoic about something have accepted their fate and have become emotionally detached.

You can also say, "he had a stoic expression" and people can imagine very clearly that this face was free of any emotion.

This knowledge is spread over heterogeneous sources of information such as
research papers, biological ontologies or regulation networks for instance.

The mom-to-be has faced rumors of a faux baby bump and bizarre cravings.

To employ a "classical approach" is to approach a situation in a manner that has long been recognized as a tried-and-true method. That's not to say that it is the ONLY way or the BEST way, but it is often the most traditional and frequently-used way.

In this situation, researchers generally rely on their knowledge of biology to identify potentially valuable relationships, and they limit sampling based on these heuristics.

Throughout the first day of his two-day sentencing hearing, the impeached executive-turned-reality TV star known for his jocular personality was somber and ill-at-ease, staring down at the floor.

The conciliatory tone came as something of a surprise — just days after defense filings that, as many times before, stridently declared Blagojevich's innocence and said he had been duped by aides but never intended to cross any lines into illegality.

epiphany moment

to denounce or berate severely; flay verbally: He was excoriated for his mistakes.

On most issues, between Clinton and Newt Gingrich, I'd choose Newt in a second, even though he is a bit too exclusionary."

However, if you know one or the other, you shouldn't have much trouble figuring out the different nuances of each over time, with enough real usage or practice.

Ron Paul is a Pacifist

As a matter of fact, I doubt very much whether he had reached any such equanimity.
Chinard, Gilbert
Still, the natives, never having known anything better, supported these drawbacks with remarkable equanimity.
Sawyer, Frederic H.
Nothing was permitted to disturb his equanimity or patient resolution in carrying out the scheme as he thought best.
Mayer, Brantz
In her memoir, Dr. Caspary struggled for nunlike equanimity in writing about him.
New York Times Oct 18, 2011

Technically speaking:
The phrase is used to indicate more detail and exactness, usually when correcting a previous statement. Thanks for using

a coherent, sophisticated and implacable critic of the new president."

Nevertheless, the party base, ostentatiously pursuing serial suitors-of-the-month, considers him ideologically unreliable. Hence the current ardor for Gingrich.

Made even more profound and fundamental — his favorite adjectives — if done in collaboration with a Nancy Pelosi, Patrick Kennedy or even Al Sharpton, offering yet more evidence of transcendent, trans-partisan uniqueness.

a distaste in no way attenuated by fond memories of the 1994 Contract with America

We all have our own idiosyncrasies, and because of this we also have our own ways of relating with another person.

However, the 26-year-old center has since publicly softened his stance, saying he would be amenable to remaining in Orlando.

In practical terms, it's the US military ignoring universal human rights, or Geneva convention agreements and then justifying their actions through American exceptionalism. It's the belief that America can unilaterally be the exception to even it's own rules.

we want someone who you know, speaks bombastically and carries a small stick. We want someone who speaks unthreatenly, gentlemanly and then actually does stuff.

But the two Republican congressional leaders were often at loggerheads, with Dole often frustrated by Gingrich's firebrand personality
I believe it means "no resolve" or "deadlock". so when someone says they were at lockerheads with someone else it means they have disagreed with no resolve.

An exasperated Dole once said to Gingrich: "You pay a penalty for leadership. If you don't want to pay the penalty, maybe you ought to find some other line of work."