Act prep 2

Alleviate

To lighten, lesson, or relieve especially physical or mental suffering

Elevation

The height of a place where the act or result of lifting or raising someone or something

cantilever

A long piece of wood, metal, etc., that sticks out from a wall to support something above it

Levity

Lack of appropriate seriousness

Cicerone

A guide, especially one who takes tourist to museums, monuments, or architectural sites and explains what is being seen

Hector

To bully or harass by bluster or personal pressure

Hedonism

An attitude or way of life based on the idea that pleasure happiness should be the chief goal

Nestor

A senior figure or leader in one’s field

Spartan

Marked by simplicity, avoidance of luxury, and often strict, self discipline, or self denial

Stentorian

Extremely loud, often with especially deep richness of sound

Stoic

Seemingly indifferent to pleasure or pain

Sybaritic

Marked by a luxurious or sensual way of life

Kleptomaia

a mental illness in which a person has a strong desire to steal things

Dipsomaniac

A person with an extreme and uncontrollable desire for alcohol

Megalomaniac

A mental disorder marked by feelings of great personal power and importance

Egomaniac

Someone who is extremely self-centered and ignores the problems and concerns of others

Psyche

Soul, personality, mind

Psychedelic

(1) Of or relating to a drug such as LSD that produces abnormal and often extreme mental effects, such as hallucinations.

(2) imitating the effects of psychedelic drugs

Psychosomatic

Cause mental or emotional problems rather than by physical illness

Psychotherapist

One who treats mental or emotional disorder or related bodily ills by a psychological means

Reception

1.) the act of receiving

2.) a social gathering where guests are formally welcomed.

Intercept

To stop, seize, or interrupt (something or someone) before arrival.

Perceptible

Noticeable or able to be felt by the senses

Susceptible

1 open to some influence; responsive

2 able to be submitted to an action or process

Confine

1.) to keep ( someone or something) within limits

2.) to hold( someone) in a location

Definitive

1.) authoritative and final.

2.) specifying perfectly or precisely.

Finite

Having definite limits

Extremely or immeasurably small

Infinitesimal