Definition Dictionary

Drawing ideas, styles, or elements from varied sources.

One word family: also includes eclecticism.

A community of organisms together with the physical environment with which they interact.

To gradually intrude on another person's space, time, or rights.

One word family: also includes encroachment.

Regularly present or characteristic within a particular place or group.

Attractive or interesting enough to hold attention.

To attract or persuade someone by offering something appealing.

To represent the essential qualities of something.

A guiding set of values or principles about how to act.

An act of avoiding a duty, difficulty, or direct response.

Avoiding a direct answer, clear commitment, or straightforward course of action.

Demanding great care, effort, or precision.

A payment or demand imposed with severity or unfairness.

The act of carrying out a plan, decision, or task.

An urgent need or demanding circumstance requiring action.

Useful or convenient for reaching an aim, though not always principled.

One word family: also includes expediency.

Money, time, or effort spent for a purpose, or the act of spending it.

Changing by a constant proportional factor over equal intervals, or relating to a quantity expressed with an exponent.

A model that reduces the present value of a future outcome by the same proportional factor for each equal unit of delay.