Vault #413

Love

love

noun

1. A profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.
2. A feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend.
3. Sexual passion or desire.
4. A person toward whom love is felt; beloved person; sweetheart. 
5. (used in direct address as a term of endearment, affection, or the like): Would you like to see a movie, love?
6. A love affair; an intensely amorous incident; amour.
7. Sexual intercourse; copulation.
8. (Initial capital letter  ) a personification of sexual affection, as Eros or Cupid.
9. Affectionate concern for the well-being of others: the love of one’s neighbor.
10. Strong predilection, enthusiasm, or liking for anything: her love of books.
11. The object or thing so liked:The theater was her great love.
12. The benevolent affection of God for His creatures, or the reverent affection due from them to God.
13. Chiefly Tennis. a score of zero; nothing.
14. A word formerly used in communications to represent the letter L.

verb (used with object)

15. To have love or affection for: All her pupils love her.
16. To have a profoundly tender, passionate affection for (anotherperson).
17. To have a strong liking for; take great pleasure in: to love music.
18. To need or require; benefit greatly from: Plants love sunlight.
19. To embrace and kiss (someone), as a lover.
20. To have sexual intercourse with.

Spectacle

Spec·ta·cle

noun

1. Anything presented to the sight or view, especially something of a striking or impressive kind: The stars make a fine spectacle tonight.

2. A publicshow or display, especially on a large scale: The coronation was a lavish spectacle.

3. Spectacles. Eyeglasses, especially with pieces passing over or around the ears for holding them in place.

4. Often, spectacles.

• something resembling spectacles in shape or function.
• any of various devices suggesting spectacles, as one attached to a semaphore to display lights or different colors by colored glass. 

5. Obsolete. A spyglass

Quixotic

Quix·ot·ic

adjective

1. (sometimes initial capital letter) resembling or befitting Don Quixote

2. extravagantly chivalrous or romantic; visionary, impractical, or impracticable

3. impulsive and often rashly unpredictable 

Passion

pas·sion

noun
1. Any powerful or compelling emotion or feeling, as love or hate.

2. Strong amorous feeling or desire; love; ardor.

3. Strong sexual desire; lust.

4. An instance or experience of strong love or sexual desire.

5. A person toward whom one feels strong love or sexual desire.

6. A strong or extravagant fondness, enthusiasm, or desire for anything: a passion for music.

7. The object of such a fondness or desire: Accuracy became a passion with him.

8. An outburst of strong emotion or feeling: He suddenly broke into a passion of bitter words.

9. Violent anger.

10. The state of being acted upon or affected by something external, especially something alien to one’s nature or one’s customary behavior. (Contrasted with action).

Ragtag

rag·tag

adjective

1. Ragged or shabby; disheveled.

2. Made up of mixed, often diverse, elements: A ragtag crowd.

Crescendo

cre·scen·do

noun

1. Music

• a gradual, steady increase in loudness or force.
• a musical passage characterized by such an increase.
• the performance of a crescendo passage: The crescendo by the violins is too abrupt. 

2. A steady increase in force or intensity: The rain fell in a crescendo on the rooftops.

3. The climactic point or moment in such an increase; peak: The authorities finally took action when public outrage reached a crescendo.

Zeitgeist

Zeit·geist

-noun German

The spirit of the time; general trend of thought or feeling characteristic of a particular period of time.

Zeitgeist isthe “spirit of the times” or “spirit of the age.” It is the general cultural, intellectual, ethical, spiritual, or political climate within a nation or even specific groups, along with the general ambiance, morals sociocultural direction, and mood associated with an era. 

The term is a loanword from German Zeit- “time” and Geist- “spirit”.

Romantic

ro·man·tic

- adjective

1. of, pertaining to, or of the nature of romance; characteristic or suggestive of the world of romance: a romantic adventure.

2. fanciful; impractical; unrealistic: romantic ideas.

3. imbued with or dominated by idealism, a desire for adventure, chivalry, etc.

4. characterized by a preoccupation with love or by the idealizing of love or one’s beloved

5. displaying or expressing love or strong affection

6. ardent; passionate; fervent

7. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a style of literature and art that subordinates form to content, encourages freedom of treatment, emphasizes imagination, emotion, and introspection, and often celebrates nature, the ordinary person, and freedom of the spirit (contrasted with classical).

8. of or pertaining to a musical style characteristic chiefly of the 19th century marked by the free expression of imagination and emotion, virtuosic display, experimentation with form, and the adventurous development of orchestral and piano music and opera.

9. imaginary, fictitious, or fabulous

Uncanny

un·can·ny

Vigilante

vig·i·lan·te

-noun

1. a member of a vigilance committee.

2. any person who takes law into his or her own hands, as by avenging a crime.

-adjective

3. done violently and summarily, without recourse or lawful procedures: vigilante justice.