Olympiad
means
a period of four years reckoned from one celebration of the Olympic Games to the next, by which the Greeks computed time from 776 b.c.
A celebration of modern Olympic games.
The word originated from Latin Olympiad-, stem of Olympias < Greek Olympiás
Varna means Caste, class, the four major social divisions in Hindu society.
‘Shrink’ means a psychiatrist. or become or make smaller in size or amount. or move back or away, especially because of fear or disgust.
Affirmation means A letter of affirmation is a note that you write to yourself to put your thoughts and feelings on paper, which some people believe, helps you crystallise your goals.
Secularization Thesis means A historical process in which religion is losing a presumed central place in society, perhaps as an unavoidable consequence of modernization, through institutional differentiation, changing patterns of legitimation and authority, rationalization, privatization, and individuation. It implies a unilinear historical development positing an inevitable decline of religion and /or religiosity.
Palinoia means the obsessive repetition of an act until it is perfect or mastered.
Dendrophilia literally means “love of trees”
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