Lest We Forget

Peace and Justice for All 

Peace [peess]
n
1. Freedom from war: freedom from war, or the time when a war or conflict ends
2. Mental calm: a state of mental calm and serenity, with no anxiety
3. Peace treaty: a treaty agreeing to an end of hostilities between two warring parties
4. Law and order: the absence of violence or other disturbances within a state
Peace reigned throughout the land.

5. State of harmony: freedom from conflict or disagreement among people or groups of people

interj
Be calm or silent: used to tell somebody to be calm or silent or as a greeting or farewell (archaic)

[12th century. Via Anglo-Norman pes from Latin pax “peace, peace treaty,” which is also the source of English appease, pacific, and pay.]

At peace in a state of friendship and freedom from conflict dead (used euphemistically) in a state of calm and serenity
Hold your peace to refrain from speaking (dated)
Keep the peace to refrain from or prevent conflict or violence
Leave somebody in peace to stop or avoid bothering somebody
Leave him in peace, he’s trying to work!
Make peace to bring a disagreement or war to an end
Make your peace with somebody to become friends with somebody again after an argument


Justice [jústiss]
(plural justices)
n
1. Fairness: fairness or reasonableness, especially in the way people are treated or decisions are made
2. Law application of law: the legal system or the act of applying or upholding the law
3. Law validity: validity in law
4. Good reason: sound or good reason
5. Judge: a judge, especially of a higher court


[12th century. Via French from Latin justitia , from justus “just.”]

Bring somebody to justice to arrest somebody to be tried in a court of law
Do justice to somebody or something to deal with somebody or something fairly to convey the true qualities, especially the merits, of somebody or something
Do yourself justice to display your own abilities fully or perform to your full potential (often used in the negative)

Freedom
n
1. ability to act freely: a state in which somebody is able to act and live as he or she chooses, without being subject to any, or to any undue, restraints and restrictions
live in freedom

2. release from captivity or slavery: release or rescue from being physically bound, or from being confined, enslaved, captured, or imprisoned
hostages enjoying their first taste of freedom for months

3. country’s right to self-rule: a country’s right to rule itself, without interference from or domination by another country or power
4. (plural free·doms) right to act or speak freely: the right to speak or act without restriction, interference, or fear
were given the freedom to take photographs and interview workers

5. absence of something unpleasant: the state of being unaffected by, or not subject to, something unpleasant or unwanted
Freedom from want or fear is one of society’s four principal freedoms.

6. ease of movement: the ability to move easily without being limited by something such as tight clothing or lack of space
Releasing the catch allows complete freedom of movement in all directions.

7. right to treat place as own: the right to use or occupy a place and treat it as your own
Off-season, we had the freedom of the whole house and the beach.

8. honorary citizenship: citizenship of a town or city, together with special privileges, formally awarded to somebody as an honor
9. frankness: openness and friendliness in speech or behavior
10. excessive confidence or familiarity: overconfidence, overfamiliarity, or a lack of proper restraint or decorum
11. philosophy free will: the ability to exercise free will and make choices independently of any external determining force

Greed [greed]
n
strong desire for more: an overwhelming desire to have more of something such as money than is actually needed
[Late 16th century. Back-formation from greedy .]


Murder
n (plural mur·ders)
law crime of killing somebody: the crime of killing another person deliberately and not in self-defense or with any other extenuating circumstance recognized by law

v (past mur·dered, past participle mur·dered, present participle mur·der·ing, 3rd person present singular mur·ders)
1. vti law kill somebody illegally: to kill another person deliberately and not in self-defense or with any other extenuating circumstance recognized by law
2. vt kill somebody brutally: to kill somebody with great violence and brutality
3. vt destroy: to put an end to or destroy something (slang)

Torture
n
1. inflicting of pain: the inflicting of severe physical pain on somebody, for example, as punishment or to persuade somebody to confess or recant something
2. methods of inflicting pain: the methods used to inflict physical pain on people
3. anguish: mental or physical anguish

vt (past tor·tured, past participle tor·tured, present participle tor·tur·ing, 3rd person present singular tor·tures)
1. inflict pain on somebody: to inflict extreme pain or physical punishment on people
2. cause somebody anguish: to cause somebody mental or physical anguish
This headache is torturing me.

3. distort something: to twist or distort something into an unnatural form

[Mid-16th century. Via French from, ultimately, Latin tortus “twisted” (see torsion).]


Lie
vi (past lied, past participle lied, present participle ly·ing, 3rd person present singular lies)
1. deliberately say something untrue: to say something that is not true in a conscious effort to deceive somebody
He lied about his age in order to get into the army.

2. be deceptive: to give a false impression
Don’t forget that appearances can lie.

n (plural lies)
1. falsehood: a false statement made deliberately
She told me she wasn’t seeing anyone else, but that was a lie.

2. wrong impression: a false impression created deliberately
I’m beginning to feel that my whole life is a lie.

[Old English lēogan “to lie” and lyge “a lie,” both ultimately from a prehistoric Germanic word that is also the ancestor of English warlock]

Word Key: Synonyms
lie, untruth, falsehood, fabrication, fib, white lie,
CORE MEANING: something that is not true
lie used to describe a written or spoken statement that is not true; untruth a more formal word meaning the same as lie; falsehood a formal or literary word meaning the same as lie; fabrication a statement, story, or account devised with intent to deceive; fib an informal word for a minor or trivial lie, often used by or about children; white lie a minor harmless lie, usually told to avoid hurting somebody’s feelings.

Genocide [jenna sid] n
murder of an entire ethnic group: the systematic killing of all the people from a national, ethnic, or religious group, or an attempt to do this

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