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| Rendition | This is a picture -- an artist's rendition of the Constitutional Convention. |
| Moderately | People who are tracking are feeling moderately depressed right now. |
| Deem | We place value on knowledge and resources above what we deem to be the soft skill of confidence. |
| Metaphorical | And if you feel comfortable, go ahead and make that metaphorical gesture of reaching across the aisle. |
| Idiosyncratic | How about that idiosyncratic you? |
| Illustrate | But as I hope to illustrate with my own story, |
| Speculate | We don't yet know the exact purpose, but we can speculate. |
| Evolve | Songs evolve over time as units or phrases are added, changed, or dropped. |
| Compensate | We forced them to change their forfeiture practices and to compensate victims. |
| Perception | Nothing in our experience actually exists outside of our perception of it, our cognition, |
| Ritual | Where we have a little ritual that helps with this shift in perspective. |
| Intensity | It was the color of passion and intensity. |
| Stroke | And then he put the spoon down, and he began to stroke it. |
| Haunting | As I've wrestled with the haunting question of why Meg died. |
| Paradox | The poet of paradox, still haunting us. |
| Spectrum | I'm in the field of research known as personality psychology, which is part of a larger personality science which spans the full spectrum, from neurons to narratives. |
| Migrate | They’ll migrate back and forth between feeding and spawning grounds annually for the rest of their lives. |
| Preliminary | But they will wait until we have renderings and a preliminary design, |
| Anecdotal | What's interesting is my anecdotal legal experience suggests otherwise. |
| Conference | No one knows what to do with it, so we’re forced to give anecdotal evidence at a conference, |
| Deteriorate | That means your memory, your judgment, your impulse control deteriorate, and the brain areas for anger and anxiety are activated. |
| Chorus | But sound moves about four times faster in water than in air, so in this dark environment, marine mammals often rely on vocalization to communicate. That's why a chorus of sounds fills the ocean. |
| Perspective | But they can also help us zoom out, shift our perspective |
| Evolutionary | Adopting an evolutionary perspective to consider the broader question of why do we have this problem to begin with -- |
| Ultimate | What evolutionary medicine calls the ultimate perspective -- can give us insight into non-immediate factors that affect our health. |