| A | B |
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| extrapolation | To project a conclusion or a final state from a set of facts and conditions |
| escapist | Entertainment that allows the reader or viewer to escape from his or her problems into a fantasy world |
| rationalist | Based on facts, arguments, and reasoning. One who makes decisions based on these things |
| thought-experiment | An experiment that is not actually performed but instead takes place in the mind |
| clairvoyants | People who can see into the future through psychic means |
| futurologist | A scientist who tries to predict what the future will look like |
| apocalyptic | Having to do with the end of the world |
| androgynous | Having characteristics of both sexes, neither man nor woman (Greek roots andro, man, and gyn, woman) |
| potentates | Persons with power; kings, rulers |
| dignitaries | Important people; people with dignity, which comes from their social status |
| insolent | Very disrespectful (adjective form) |
| insolence | Disrespectful speech and behavior (noun form) |
| animosity | Hostile or unfriendly feeling |
| specious | Used to describe an argument that looks reasonable on the surface but is not really so |
| proclamation | An announcement |
| pretense | A pretended reason for doing something that is really being done for another reason |
| shifgrethor | Gethenian term related to honor and prestige |
| kemmer | Gethenian word meaning that a person is in a physical state of being “ready for reproduction” |
| kemmering | A vow similar to marriage between two Gethenians |
