On the Subject of Defining Terminology

"Definition" (noun) - A statement of the meaning of a word or word group or a sign or symbol

For those familiar with the original manual.

Word	Definition
Accretion	The process of growth or enlargement by a gradual buildup: such as an increase by external addition or accumulation (as by adhesion of external parts or particles)
Increasingly	To an increasing degree
Repetitive	Containing repetition
Homeless	Having no home or permanent place of residence
Coincidentally	In a coincidental manner; by coincidence
Pilfering	Stealing stealthily in small amounts and often again and again
Armrest	A support for the arm
Incompetence	The state or fact of being incompetent
Disregard	To pay no attention to; treat as unworthy of regard or notice
Bored	Filled with or characterized by boredom
Irrelevant	Not relevant; inapplicable
Anacrusis	One or more notes or tones preceding the first downbeat of a musical phrase; upbeat
Customize	To build, fit, or alter according to individual specifications
Electrician	One who installs, maintains, operates, or repairs electrical equipment
Midpoint	A point at or near the center or middle
Stencil	An impervious material (such as a sheet of paper, thin wax, or woven fabric) perforated with lettering or a design through which a substance (such as ink, paint, or metallic powder) is forced onto a surface to be printed
Remnants	A usually small part, member, or trace remaining
Sequentially	Following in sequence
Inventory	An itemized list of current assets: such as a list of goods on hand
Competitive	Relating to, characterized by, or based on competition
Tertiary	Of third rank, importance, or value
Proximity	The quality or state of being proximate; closeness
Halving	To reduce to one half
Toroidal	Of, relating to, or shaped like a torus or toroid; doughnut-shaped
Farce	An empty or patently ridiculous act, proceeding, or situation
Factorial	The product of all the positive integers from 1 to n
Concentric	Having a common center

Word	Definition
Explicit	Fully revealed or expressed without vagueness, implication, or ambiguity; leaving no question as to meaning or intent
Tolerated	To allow to be or to be done without prohibition, hindrance, or contradiction
Illiterate	Having little or no education; especially being unable to read or write
Automaton	A mechanism that is relatively self-operating
Explicitly	In an explicit manner; clearly and without any vagueness or ambiguity
Surly	Irritably sullen and churlish in mood or manner
Remedy	Something that corrects or counteracts
Misinterpretation	Failure to understand or interpret something correctly
Composer	One that composes, especially a person who writes music
Exploitation	An act or instance of exploiting
Primitive	Belonging to or characteristic of an early stage of development; crude, rudimentary
Periodically	At regular intervals of time
Cyclic	Of, relating to, or being a cycle
Undivided	Not separated into parts or pieces; existing as a single whole; not divided
Whistle	A small wind instrument in which sound is produced by the forcible passage of breath through a slit in a short tube
Alphanumeric	Consisting of both letters and numbers and often other symbols (such as punctuation marks and mathematical symbols)
Opinion	A view, judgment, or appraisal formed in the mind about a particular matter
Screwdriver	A tool for turning screws
Divvied	Divided or shared, usually used with \"up\"
Disturbance	An interference with or alteration in a planned, ordered, or usual procedure, state, or habit
Portrait	A picture, especially a pictorial representation of a person usually showing the face
Elixir	A medicinal concoction
Capo	A movable bar attached to the fingerboard of a fretted instrument to uniformly raise the pitch of all the strings
Bankrupt	Reduced to a state of financial ruin; impoverished
	To reduce to bankruptcy
Citation	An act of quoting, especially the citing of a previously settled case at law
Snippet	A small part, piece, or thing, especially a brief, quotable passage
Ichor	A thin watery or blood-tinged discharge
Pretend	To give a false appearance of being, possessing, or performing
	To claim, represent, or assert falsely
Flickering	Moving or shining irregularly or unsteadily

Word	Definition
Deviation	The difference between a value in a frequency distribution and a fixed number (such as the mean)
Printer	A device used for printing, especially a machine for printing from photographic negatives
Countermeasures	Actions or devices designed to negate or offset another
Traverse	To move or pass along or through
Haywire	Being out of order or having gone wrong
Annihilate	To cause (something, such as a particle and its antiparticle) to vanish or cease to exist by coming together and changing into other forms of energy (such as photons)
	To cause to cease to exist; to do away with entirely so that nothing remains
Torture	To cause intense suffering to; torment
Defies	To confront with assured power of resistance: disregard
Ordeal	A severe trial or experience
Impostor	One that assumes false identity or title for the purpose of deception
Sacrifice	To suffer loss of, give up, renounce, injure, or destroy especially for an ideal, belief, or end
Alignment	The act of aligning or state of being aligned, especially the proper positioning or state of adjustment of parts (as of a mechanical or electronic device) in relation to each other
Anomaly	Something different, abnormal, peculiar, or not easily classified
Debris	An accumulation of fragments of rock in geology
Programmer	One that programs, such as a person who prepares and tests programs for devices (such as computers)
Phantom	Something apparent to sense but with no substantial existence; apparition
Democracy	Government by the people; rule of the majority
Diagonalize	To put (a matrix) in a form with all the nonzero elements along the diagonal from upper left to lower right
Hovercraft	A vehicle that is supported above the surface of land or water by a cushion of air produced by downwardly directed fans
Reboot	To shut down and restart (a computer or program)
Recognize	To acknowledge or take notice of in some definite way
Gambling	The practice or activity of betting; the practice of risking money or other stakes in a game or bet
Convict	A person convicted of and under sentence for a crime
	To find or prove to be guilty
Calibration	The act or process of calibrating: the state of being calibrated
Mouthpiece	A part (as of an instrument) that goes in the mouth or to which the mouth is applied
Reciprocal	Either of a pair of numbers (such as 2/3 and 3/2 or 9 and 1/9) whose product is one
Containment	The act, process, or means of keeping something within limits

Word	Definition
Humiliate	To make (someone) ashamed or embarrassed
Continuously	In a continuous manner; without interruption
Rejected	Refused to accept, consider, submit to, take for some purpose, or use
Postfix	Characterized by placement of an operator after its operand or after its two operands if it is a binary operator
Unambiguously	Not ambiguously; clearly, precisely
Likelihood	The chance that something will happen; probability
Numerator	The part of a fraction that is above the line and signifies the number to be divided by the denominator
Biased	Tending to yield one outcome more frequently than others in a statistical experiment
Pity	Sympathetic sorrow for one suffering, distressed, or unhappy
Grok	To understand profoundly and intuitively
Fragile	Easily broken or destroyed
Sonar	A method or device for detecting and locating objects especially underwater by means of sound waves sent out to be reflected by the objects
Circuitry	The detailed plan or arrangement of an electric circuit
Sustenance	A supplying or being supplied with the necessaries of life
Tincture	A substance that colors, dyes, or stains
Mercenary	One that serves merely for wages, especially a soldier hired into foreign service
Jackpot	The top prize in a game or contest (such as a lottery) that is typically a large fund of money formed by the accumulation of unwon prizes
Cyanide	A compound of cyanogen with a more electropositive element or group
Creativity	The ability to create
Argument	A coherent series of reasons, statements, or facts intended to support or establish a point of view
	One of the independent variables upon whose value that of a function depends in mathematics
Viable	Capable of working, functioning, or developing adequately
Tesseract	The four-dimensional analogue of a cube
Trios	Groups or sets of three
Manor	The house or hall of an estate; mansion
Firepower	The capacity (as of a military unit) to deliver effective fire on a target
Acquire	To get as one's own; to come into possession or control of often by unspecified means
Ambulance	A vehicle equipped for transporting the injured or sick
Frail	Easily broken or destroyed; fragile
Geometric	Of, relating to, or according to the methods or principles of geometry
Obfuscating	Being evasive, unclear, or confusing
Unauthorized	Not authorized; without authority or permission

Word	Definition
Accidentally	In an accidental or unintended manner; by accident
Poorly	In a poor condition or manner, especially in an inferior or imperfect way; badly
Insanity	A severely disordered state of the mind usually occurring as a specific disorder
Interweave	To weave together
Surname	The name borne in common by members of a family
Vulgar	Lewdly or profanely indecent
Exempt	Free or released from some liability or requirement to which others are subject
Corrupted	Altered from the original or correct form or version
Desert	Arid land with usually sparse vegetation, especially such land having a very warm climate and receiving less than 25 centimeters (10 inches) of sporadic rainfall annually
Giggle	To laugh with repeated short catches of the breath
Orphanage	An institution for the care of orphans
Wife	A female partner in a marriage
Chrysanthemum	Any of various composite plants (genus #######) including weeds, ornamentals grown for their brightly colored often double flower heads, and others important as sources of medicinals and insecticides
Torrent	A tumultuous outpouring; rush
Effective	Producing a decided, decisive, or desired effect
Auction	A sale of property to the highest bidder
Penalty	Disadvantage, loss, or hardship due to some action
Leeway	An allowable margin of freedom or variation; tolerance
Budget	The amount of money that is available for, required for, or assigned to a particular purpose