1) Ego: an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others

2) Subjectivity: judgment based on individual personal impressions and feelings and opinions rather than external facts

3) Metacognition: "cognition about cognition", or "knowing about knowing.

4) Epistemology: the philosophical theory of knowledge

5) Mollify: cause to be more favorably inclined

6) Abrogate: revoke formally

7) Bureaucracy: nonelective government officials

8) Viscosity: resistance of a liquid to shear forces (and hence to flow)

9) Filibuster: a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation

10) Reconcile: make one thing compatible with another

11) Vilify: spread negative information about

12) Aggregate: the whole amount