Words, words, words...

I have a love affair with words. They are so interesting to me. They solidify ideas. They allow understanding to take place based on accepted definitions. It fascinates me that between two completely different people with a myriad of different experiences and feelings individuals can relate and imprint within each other the ideas and thoughts held uniquely in their own minds. How?  Through words! It is like magic. Words have such tremendous power. I feel that most of the problems people face in communicating stems from misunderstandings founded on having definitions for words that are not mutually held as representative to specific ideas. As a result assumptions, speculation, and a host of impressions distort the understanding that would naturally result if individuals took the time to merely understand what each party really meant in the terms they use.  There are obviously many more problems to communicating. But between honest individuals without agendas or desires to play games, most issues, I feel happen because they don't take the time to recap information as they understand it and allow others to check to make sure that a proper picture has been painted in the other person's mind. I feel that most people are too impatient to do this focusing not on the individual they are interacting with but instead being more interested in the process or effort they have to expend. The thing with words is that they are not perfect. Most carry different connotations that cast a different light on speech depending on how they are used. Many words have meanings that when reflected upon cast a deeper understanding than their otherwise face value. But again for that to happen the definitions must be understood. These words are like suitcases to me. They unpack a quality of detail to an idea with accuracies that allow an individual to understand very intimately the thoughts and feelings of other individuals. They also have the capacity to pinpoint to the mind circumstances that one is subjected to but which beyond feelings one might not know how to encapsulate for the mind. Of late I have been pondering a host of different words that apply to me and others on a daily basis. These are my words for the moment, see if you can find the importance in understanding their meanings for life and relations.

Happy

• Enjoying or characterized by well-being and contentment

          Contentment

• The state of being contented

          Contented

• Feeling or showing satisfaction with one's possessions, status, or situation

          Content (Trans. Verb)

• To appease the desires of
• To limit (oneself) in requirements, desires, or actions

Joy

• The emotion evoked by well being, success, or good fortune or by the prospect of possessing what one desires: delight
• The expression or exhibition of such emotion : gaiety
• A state of happiness or felicity: bliss
• A source or cause of delight

Belief

• To accept as true, genuine, or real
• To have a firm conviction as to the goodness, efficacy, or ability of something

Disappoint

• To fail to meet the expectations of: frustrate

Worry

• Mental distress or agitation resulting from concern usually for something impending or anticipated: anxiety

          Distress

• Pain or suffering affecting the body, a bodily part, or the mind: Trouble
• A painful situation: misfortune
• A state of danger or desperate need

                    Agitation

• To excite and often trouble the mind or feelings of: disturb
• To give motion to, to stir up

          Concern

• Marked interest or regard usually arising through a personal tie or relationship
• An uneasy state of blended interest, uncertainty, and apprehension

          Anxiety

• Fearful concern or interest
• Painful or apprehensive uneasiness of mind usually over an impending or anticipated ill

                    Fear

• An apprehension of something bad happening

                    Apprehension

• Suspicion or fear especially of future evil : foreboding

                              Forebode

• To have an inward conviction of (as coming ill or misfortune)
• Foretell, portend

                                        Portend

• To give an omen or anticipatory sign of
• Indicate, signify

                                        Fortell

• To tell beforehand : predict

Faith 

• Is not to have a perfect knowledge of things. Hope for things which are not seen but which are true.

 Doubt

• Is not trusting given information or direction

          Trust

• Assured reliance on the character, ability, strength, or truth of someone or something
• One in which confidence is placed
• Dependence on something future or contingent : hope

Lie

• To make an untrue statement with intent to deceive
• To create a false or misleading impression

                                                      Deceive, mislead, delude, beguile

• Mean to lead astray or frustrate usually by underhandedness.

          Underhandedness

• marked by secrecy, chicanery, and deception: not honest and aboveboard: sly

                    Chicanery

• deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry: trickery

                              Subterfuge

• deception by artifice or stratagem in order to conceal, escape, or evade a deceptive device or stratagem 

                                        Artifice

• clever or artful skill: ingenuity
• an ingenious device or expedient
• an artful stratagem: trick
• false or insincere behavior

                                                 Stratagem 

• a cleverly contrived trick or scheme for gaining an end
• an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy

                           Sophistry

• subtly deceptive reasoning or argumentation

Deceive

• Implies imposing a false idea or belief that causes ignorance, bewilderment, or helplessness .

Mislead

• Implies a leading astray that may or may not be intentional .

Delude

• Implies deceiving so thoroughly as to obscure the truth .

Beguile

• Stresses the use of charm and persuasion in deceiving .

                                                Lie, prevaricate, equivocate, palter, fib

• Mean to tell an untruth.

Lie

• Is the blunt term, imputing dishonesty .

Prevaricate

• Softens the bluntness of lie by implying quibbling or confusing the issue .

Quibbling

• To evade the point of an argument by caviling (bickering) about words

Cavil

• To raise trivial and frivolous objection

Equivocate

• Implies using words having more than one sense so as to seem to say one thing but intend another .

Palter

• Implies making unreliable statements of fact or intention or insincere promises .

Fib

• Applies to a telling of a trivial untruth .

                                                Anger, ire, rage, fury, indignation, wrath

• Mean an intense emotional state induced by displeasure.

Anger

• the most general term, names the reaction but in itself conveys nothing about intensity or justification or manifestation of the emotional state .

 Ire

• more frequent in literary contexts, may suggest greater intensity than anger, often with an evident display of feeling .

 Rage

• suggests loss of self-control from violence of emotion .

 Fury

• is overmastering destructive rage that can verge on madness .

 Indignation

• stresses righteous anger at what one considers unfair, mean, or shameful .

Wrath

• is likely to suggest a desire or intent to revenge or punish .

          Displeasure

• : the feeling of one that is displeased : disfavor 
• : discomfort, unhappiness 
• archaic : offense, injury

                    Displease

• to incur the disapproval or dislike of especially by annoying
•  to be offensive to

Enemy

• One that is antagonistic to another especially one seeking to injure, overthrow, or confound an opponent 
• Something harmful or deadly

          Antagonistic

• Opposition of a conflicting force, tendency, or principle
• Actively expressed opposition or hostility

                    Conflict

• Fight, Battle, War
• competitive or opposing action of incompatibles: antagonistic state or action
• mental struggle resulting from incompatible or opposing needs, drives, wishes, or external or internal demands

                              Compete

• to strive consciously or unconsciously for an objective
• be in a state of rivalry

                                        Rival

• one of two or more striving to reach or obtain something that only one can possess
• one striving for competitive advantage
• equal, peer