Vocabulary: "The Abolition of Work"

Define: Ludic

• playful in an aimless way

• to participate in sports

• a form of slavery in which people have jobs they have to do

• to have an anti-technology attitude

Define: Conviviality

• to enjoy staying indoors

• unfriendly; disagreeable

• friendly; agreeable

• to be lethargic

Define: Commensality

• to find it impossible to get along with other individuals or groups

• eating together at the same table.

• to have a zest for living

• to begin a new project or action

Define: Sloth

• activity; busyness

• habitual disinclination to exertion; indolence

• liveliness; vivacity

• to sleep uninterrupted

Define: Saliency

• the opposite of leniency

• having to do with the properties of salt

• unimportant; irrelevant

• Prominence or being conspicuous

Define: Torpor

• diligence; industry

• vivacity; liveliness

• sluggish inactivity or inertia.

• the stage immediately before death

Define: Enervation

• strength; vigor

• having energy or spirit

• to be deprived of strength or force; a weakened state

• the activity of the secondary nervous system

Define: Adduce

• to sum numbers

• hide; make cryptic

• to reach a logical conclusion in a deductive argument

• to bring forward in argument or as evidence

Define: Exigency

• advantage; benefit

• boon; blessing

• the need, demand, or requirement intrinsic to a circumstance, condition

• miracle; an unexpected and unexplained circumstance

Define: Gratuitous

• given, done, bestowed, or obtained without charge or payment; free; voluntary

• costly; expensive

• reasonable; warranted

• of or relating to gratuities; tips