Terminology — Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes Module

On the Subject of Terminology

“Optimization” (noun) - an act, process, or methodology of making something (such as a design, system, or decision) as fully perfect, functional, or effective as possible

A tumultuous outpouring; rush
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)
Containing repetition
In a coincidental manner; by coincidence
Stealing stealthily in small amounts and often again and again
A support for the arm
The state or fact of being incompetent
One or more notes or tones preceding the first downbeat of a musical phrase; upbeat
To build, fit, or alter according to individual specifications
One who installs, maintains, operates, or repairs electrical equipment
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
An empty or patently ridiculous act, proceeding, or situation
Having little or no education, especially being unable to read or write
Irritably sullen and churlish in mood or manner
Something that corrects or counteracts

Failure to understand or interpret something correctly
An act or instance of exploiting
Belonging to or characteristic of an early stage of development; crude, rudimentary
Not separated into parts or pieces; existing as a single whole; not divided
A view, judgment, or appraisal formed in the mind about a particular matter
A tool for turning screws
Divided or shared, usually used with “up”
An interference with or alteration in a planned, ordered, or usual procedure, state, or habit
A medicinal concoction
A movable bar attached to the fingerboard of a fretted instrument to uniformly raise the pitch of all the strings
Reduced to a state of financial ruin; impoverished
To reduce to bankruptcy
An act of quoting, especially the citing of a previously settled case at law
A thin watery or blood-tinged discharge
Actions or devices designed to negate or offset another
Being out of order or having gone wrong

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 confront with assured power of resistance: disregard
A severe trial or experience
An accumulation of fragments of rock in geology
Something apparent to sense but with no substantial existence; apparition
Government by the people; rule of the majority
To put (a matrix) in a form with all the nonzero elements along the diagonal from upper left to lower right
To shut down and restart (a computer or program)
A person convicted of and under sentence for a crime
To find or prove to be guilty
A part (as of an instrument) that goes in the mouth or to which the mouth is applied
To make (someone) ashamed or embarrassed
Characterized by placement of an operator after its operand or after its two operands if it is a binary operator
Not ambiguously; clearly, precisely
Sympathetic sorrow for one suffering, distressed, or unhappy
To understand profoundly and intuitively

Easily broken or destroyed
A supplying or being supplied with the necessaries of life
A substance that colors, dyes, or stains
A compound of cyanogen with a more electropositive element or group
A coherent series of reasons, statements, or facts intended to support or establish a point of view
Capable of working, functioning, or developing adequately
Groups or sets of three
The capacity (as of a military unit) to deliver effective fire on a target
A vehicle equipped for transporting the injured or sick
Easily broken or destroyed; fragile
Of, relating to, or according to the methods or principles of geometry
Being evasive, unclear, or confusing
To weave together
Lewdly or profanely indecent
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
To laugh with repeated short catches of the breath

An institution for the care of orphans
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
A sale of property to the highest bidder
An oily explosive poisonous liquid C3H5N3O9 used chiefly in making dynamite and in medicine as a vasodilator
A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug C13H18O2 used to relieve pain and fever
Fixed compensation paid regularly for services
Stopped, seized, or interrupted in progress or course or before arrival
Any of a genus (Pelecanus) of large web-footed fish-eating birds with a very large bill and distensible gular pouch
A comparatively short electromagnetic wave, especially one between about one millimeter and one meter in wavelength
The act, process, or occupation of working wood into a useful or desired form
To reproach or challenge in a mocking or insulting manner; to jeer at
The system of public works of a country, state, or region
Of, relating to, exhibiting, or characteristic of old age
Capable of being understood from something else though not clearly or directly stated; implied
One that views, such as a person who watches television
Not done by intention or design; not intentional

Not affected by or showing passion or feeling, especially firmly restrained in response to pain or stress
A state of profound unconsciousness caused by disease, injury, or poison
A person unusually devoted to reading and study
Having no home or permanent place of residence
Filled with or characterized by boredom
A usually small part, member, or trace remaining (plural)
To reduce to one half
To allow to be or to be done without prohibition, hindrance, or contradiction
A small wind instrument in which sound is produced by the forcible passage of breath through a slit in a short tube
To give a false appearance of being, possessing, or performing
A device used for printing, especially a machine for printing from photographic negatives
To cause intense suffering to; torment
To suffer loss of, give up, renounce, injure, or destroy especially for an ideal, belief, or end
Something different, abnormal, peculiar, or not easily classified
One that programs, such as a person who prepares and tests programs for devices (such as computers)
A vehicle that is supported above the surface of land or water by a cushion of air produced by downwardly directed fans

The practice or activity of betting; the practice of risking money or other stakes in a game or bet
The act or process of calibrating: the state of being calibrated
The act, process, or means of keeping something within limits
Refused to accept, consider, submit to, take for some purpose, or use
The chance that something will happen; probability
Tending to yield one outcome more frequently than others in a statistical experiment
A method or device for detecting and locating objects especially underwater by means of sound waves sent out to be reflected by the objects
One that serves merely for wages, especially a soldier hired into foreign service
The ability to create
One of the independent variables upon whose value that of a function depends in mathematics
The four-dimensional analogue of a cube
The house or hall of an estate; mansion
A severely disordered state of the mind usually occurring as a specific disorder
A female partner in a marriage
An allowable margin of freedom or variation; tolerance
A standard on which a judgment or decision may be based

One that views, such as an optical device used in viewing
An assumed or additional name that a person sometimes uses
Feeling or showing angry irritation
Blocking the passage of radiant energy and especially light; exhibiting opacity
To an increasing degree
Following in sequence
Of third rank, importance, or value
The quality or state of being proximate; closeness
Of, relating to, or shaped like a torus or toroid; doughnut-shaped
Fully revealed or expressed without vagueness, implication, or ambiguity; leaving no question as to meaning or intent
A mechanism that is relatively self-operating
The difference between a value in a frequency distribution and a fixed number (such as the mean)
To cause to cease to exist; to do away with entirely so that nothing remains
One that assumes false identity or title for the purpose of deception
Either of a pair of numbers (such as 2/3 and 3/2 or 9 and 1/9) whose product is one
The detailed plan or arrangement of an electric circuit

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
Not authorized; without authority or permission
In a poor condition or manner, especially in an inferior or imperfect way; badly
The name borne in common by members of a family
Not having or showing good hygiene; not hygienic; unsanitary
On the other side of a leaf (as of a book)
Exaggerated or pathological immunological reaction (as by sneezing, difficult breathing, itching, or skin rashes) to substances, situations, or physical states that are without comparable effect on the average individual
A polyhedron of six faces (such as a cube)
One that begets or brings forth offspring (plural)
Relating to, characterized by, or based on competition
The product of all the positive integers from 1 to n
Having a common center
One that composes, especially a person who writes music
A picture, especially a pictorial representation of a person usually showing the face
To claim, represent, or assert falsely
Free or released from some liability or requirement to which others are subject

Producing a decided, decisive, or desired effect
Photographic prints in white on a bright blue ground or blue on a white ground used especially for copying maps, mechanical drawings, and architects’ plans
A point at or near the center or middle
At regular intervals of time
A small part, piece, or thing, especially a brief, quotable passage
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
The part of a fraction that is above the line and signifies the number to be divided by the denominator
To get as one’s own; to come into possession or control of often by unspecified means
Something offered or striven for in competition or in contests of chance
An instrument for determining temperature, specifically one consisting of a sensor housed in a metal probe that registers a change in electrical resistance as a change in temperature
A number that is one more than seventeen
In an explicit manner; clearly and without any vagueness or ambiguity
To move or pass along or through
To acknowledge or take notice of in some definite way

The amount of money that is available for, required for, or assigned to a particular purpose
To grow longer
In an accidental or unintended manner; by accident
In a continuous manner; without interruption
An itemized list of current assets: such as a list of goods on hand
Moving or shining irregularly or unsteadily
Not relevant; inapplicable
Of, relating to, or being a cycle
At or along the diameter; in the direction of the diameter

Standards on which a judgment or decision may be based
Consisting of both letters and numbers and often other symbols (such as punctuation marks and mathematical symbols)
To pay no attention to; treat as unworthy of regard or notice
Disadvantage, loss, or hardship due to some action