empathy

/ˈɛmpəθi/

noun

The intellectual identification of the thoughts, feelings, or state of another person.

Climbing into bed with strangers was the only way Audrey could express empathy for the abused children she was charged to protect as an inner-city social worker.

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obeisance

[oh-BEE-suhn(t)s]

noun

Deference, homage.

I thought his smelling my panties was too much of an act of obeisance, but it did show that he cared.

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callous

/ˈkæləs/

adjective

1 hard, hardened. 2 a hardened in mind…

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foist

/fɔɪst/

verb

1 to pass off something spurious or counterfeit as genuine, true, or worthy…

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lackadaisical

/ˌlækəˈdeɪzɪkəl/

adjective

1 affectedly pensive. 2 languidly sentimental.

Feeling particularly lackadaisical in the summer heat, Mina did not wipe Martin’s semen from her chest before she went to sleep.

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capacious

[kuh-PAY-shuhs]

adjective

Able to contain much; roomy; spacious.

As we all know, perverts tend to lease more capacious automobiles.

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deride

[dih-RYD]

transitive verb

To laugh at with contempt; to subject to ridicule or make sport of; to mock; to scoff at…

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