VOCABULARY #3

Vehement - strongly emotional, intense or passionate: When my father died I was filled with a vehement feeling. As cliché as it may sound I feel love is the strongest emotion we as humans are capable of. Everyone has gone through all the main emotions such as sorrow, happiness, and jealousy just to try and feel love or keep the feeling of love alive. No other emotion has the potential of making humans go through hell just to feel it.

Adverse - being or acting in a contrary direction; opposed or opposing: It seems that most republicans are adverse to the idea of universal health care. Racism today is one of the main factors keeping human civilization from advancing and changing for the better. Racism goes against our civilization today but forms of it can still be found almost everywhere. If we can just get passed racism we will be once huge step closer to the utopian society we dream of.

Blatant - brazenly obvious; flagrant: it was obvious that the suspect was blatantly trying to hide something. From the beginning there were some who said the war on Iraq was just a cover-up for an oil war. After years of fighting more and more people are starting to see that oil was in fact a huge part of the war but still the government tries to deny it.

Aggravate - to annoy; irritate; exasperate: I try to ignore people who aggravate as to not get into a fight. Global Warming is the issue aggravating the tensions between government the most. Besides money, land, religion, and power now the governments of the world also have to try to work together to solve Global Warming and try to come to a solution that will benefit and harm every county just the same.

Factoid - something fictitious or unsubstantiated that is presented as fact: Some people believe evolution to be a factoid, but most scientists hold it as a fact. I choose the crusades to represent this definition, not because I don’t believe in god but rather because these knights gave and took life in combat for a god who discourages violence. The knights of the crusades listened to the factoids their cardinals and popes fed them and made them believe that war was gods will.