Friday Blog: Week Three

This week I read Animal Scam by Kathleen Marquardt, pages 1-132 (note the rest of the book is auhors notes). While I was reading I came across a few words that I was unfamiliar with. 

Vocab:

Unfathomably- (page xii)
Not able to be fathomed, or completely understood; incomprehensible.

Indoctrinated- (page xii)
To instruct in a doctrine, principle, ideology, etc., especially to imbue with a specific partisan or biased belief or point of view.

Paleolithic- (page xii)
Relating to, or characteristic of the cultures of the late Pliocene and the Pleistocene epochs, or early phase of the Stone Age, which appeared first in Africa and are marked by the steady development of stone tools and later antler and bone artifacts, engravings on bone and stone, sculpted figures, and paintings and engravings on the walls of caves and rock-shelters: usually divided into three periods.

Assertions- (page 3)
A positive statement or declaration, often without support or reason.

Bourgeois- (page 5)
A person whose political, economic, and social opinions are believed to be determined mainly by concern for property values and conventional respectability.

Linchpin- (page 6)
Something that holds the various elements of a complicated structure together.

Lucrative- (page 17)
Profitable; moneymaking; remunerative.

Misanthropy- (page 7)
Hatred, dislike, or distrust of humankind.

Nihilism- (page 8)
Anarchy, terrorism, or other revolutionary activity.

Inadvertently- (page 32)
Unintentional.

Vivisection- (page 51)
The practice of subjecting living animals to cutting operations, especially in order to advance physiological and pathological knowledge.

Indispensable-  (page 81)
Absolutely necessary, essential, or requisite.

Idiosyncratic- (page 85)
Pertaining to the nature of idiosyncrasy, or something peculiar to an individual.

The website below contains a lot of information and I have found it very helpful in my search to understand animal welfare. 

Source: awionline.org