When the pressure is on, you don’t rise to the occasion - you fall to your highest level of preparation.

Chris Voss

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Appellation

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a name or title.

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Subfusc

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dull in colour, especially dark or gloomy.

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Acquiescence

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the acceptance of something without protest.

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Wonderment

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a feeling of amazement or admiration, caused by something surprising.

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Doughty

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brave and persistent in facing challenges.

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Delectation

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great pleasure or delight.

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Encomia

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formal expressions of praise.

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Incommoded

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to cause inconvenience or discomfort to someone.

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Sagacity

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acuteness of mental discernment and sound judgment.

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Sallied

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to set out or embark upon a journey or activity.

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It is not the strongest…

Charles Darwin

If there is no struggle,…

Frederick Douglass

When the pressure is on,…

Chris Voss

Give me a place to…

Archimedes

Opportunities multiply as they are…

Sun Tzu

You are never too good…

Thomas Parkinson

All medicine is like that….

Dr. William DeVries

The biggest temptation is to…

Thomas Merton

It’s better to be at…

Ricky Gervais

What are you afraid of…

Marcus Aurelius

Purple has long been linked to royalty because,…

A 4-day workweek trial in the UK was…

French toast originated in ancient Rome. The French…

Erik the Red, exiled from Iceland, named Greenland…

For the first time, US adults bought more…

Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt ate 100 McDonald’s Chicken…

Approximately 60% of people worldwide (4.5 billion people)…

The average American lost 2.6 IQ points due…

Greenland is portrayed about 14 times larger than…

A 2013 study found that the soft drink…