TiM: The Truth in Meanings
Chapter 32: Definitions
Previous ChapterDefinitions
• Act 1
o Impossible: Not possible, unable to be, exist, happen.
o Bittersweet: Both pleasant and painful or regretful.
o Necessary: Being essential, indispensable, requisite.
o Pyrrhic Victory: A victory or goal achieved at too great a cost.
o Prophecy: To predict with assurance or on the basis of mystic knowledge.
o Cost: The price paid to acquire, produce, accomplish, or maintain something.
o Home: The place or region where something is native or most common.
• Transition 1
o Peregrination: Travel from one place to another, especially on foot.
• Act 2
o Repugnance: A strong distaste, aversion, or objection, antipathy
o Elysium: The abode of the blessed after death, a place or state of perfect happiness.
o Gehenna: Any place of extreme torment or suffering.
o Tartarus: A sunless abyss, below Hades
o Omnipotent: Almighty or infinite in power, as God.
o Vis-à-Vis: Face to face
o Sisyphus: Son of Aeolus punished forever by having to roll a stone to the top of a hill.
• Transition 2
o Abeyance: Temporary inactivity, cessation, or suspension
• Act 3
o Catastrophe: Sudden and widespread disaster.
o Perplexing: To cause to be puzzled or bewilder over what is not understood or certain.
o Pandemonium: A place or scene of notorious uproar or utter chaos.
o Veracity: Truth.
o Purgation: The act of purging.
o Love: A profoundly tender, passionate, affection for another.
o Remorseful Suffering: A sense of deep regret and guilt for agony, torment and pain.
• Act 4
o Persevering: To persist in an undertaking, maintain purpose in spite of difficulty.
o Safeguard: Something that serves as a protection or defenses or that ensures safety.
o Impasse: A position or situation from which there is no escape, a deadlock.
o Dire Straits: A state of extreme distress.
o Belated: Late, delayed, or detained.
o Divulge Crux: Disclose or reveal a vital, basic, decisive, or pivotal point.
o Choice: Selecting from several alternatives, picking by personal preference.
• Epilogue
o Consummation: The ultimate end, finish.