Julie+20-22

20 __Capitulation__- surrender, giving up; “articles of capitulation” are a set of terms or articles constituting an agreement between two governments, the terms of surrender ending a war or conflict __Reparations__- the act of making amends for a wrong or injury; compensation in money or materials paid by a defeated nation for damages or expenditures sustained by other nations as a result of hostilities with the defeated nations (i.e. Germany paid reparations after WWI and WWII) 21 __Pollution__- the act of contaminating; to make unclean, to make physically or morally impure; i.e. pollution of the mind might include jealousy, spite, greed, etc. __psychic correlates__- //psychic//: lying outside the sphere of physical science or knowledge, of or relating to the psyche, immaterial, moral, or spiritual in origin or force; //correlates//: either of two things so related that one directly implies or is complementary to the other; ergo the //psychic correlates// of “pollution” and “sin” could be guilt, remorse, shame, etc. __look askance__- to view with mistrust, to “look sideways”; conveys suspicion, uneasiness __metaphysical__- concerned with abstract, subtle, abstruse thoughts or subjects like existence, causality, truth 22 __cheap point__- similar to a “cheap shot” in sports; a critical statement that takes unfair advantage of a target’s known weakness __polarizes__- to break up into opposing factions or groups; a “polarizing” topic would be one that strongly divides people’s opinions (i.e. religion or politics) __polemical__- controversial, disputatious, polarizing; involving aggressive attacks on or refutations of the opinions or principles of another