Subject: The Addictionary..to help us understand
Content: . . . ABSTINENCE: Not using by choice especially drugs. ACCEPT: To agree, consider, or hold to be true. To regard as true; believe in ACCEPTANCE: The mental attitude that something is believable and should be accepted as true. Belief in something. ACCLAMATION: Enthusiastic approval, without dissent. ACHIEVE: To get by means of one’s own efforts. To attain with effort or despite difficulty. ACKNOWLEDGE: To admit the truth or existence. To admit the existence, reality, or truth of. ACTIVE LISTENING: The ability to use all of one’s senses to hear what someone is conveying not just hearing . ACQUIRE: To get especially by one’s own efforts. To get especially by one’s own efforts or gain through experience ACTION: The doing of something or something done. ACTIVE: Producing or involving action or movement. Involving or requiring physical exertion and energy ADDICT: A person who has an obsessive and compulsive need for something such as drugs. ADDICTION: A physical, mental, and spiritual disease that is characterized an obsession to use the drugs that are destroying us, followed by a compulsion that forces us to continue. ADMISSION: An admitting of something that has not been proven. A voluntary acknowledgment of truth. ADMIT: To make known, usually with some unwillingness. ADVERSITY: Hard times. ADVICE: Suggestions about a decision or action. Opinion about what could or should be done about a situation or problem AFFIRMATION: Replacing the negative, random thoughts of self-condemnation and limitation with expansive good thoughts that help orient ourselves to a better and happier, healthy life. Usually in the form of short, well phrased sentences. AFRAID: Filled with fear. Having feelings of aversion or unwillingness in regard to something AGE: The time from birth to a specified time. ALIENATE: To cause one who used to be friendly or loyal to become unfriendly or disloyal. To cause to become withdrawn or unresponsive; isolate or dissociate emotionally ALIENATION: The act of alienating or one who has been alienated. Emotional isolation or dissociation. ALTERNATIVE: A chance to choose between things or one of the things between which a choice can be made. The choice between two mutually exclusive possibilities or a situation presenting such a choice. ALTRUISM: Without taking anything from those who depend on you, giving freely with no expectation of return for the purpose of making the world a better place. AMENDS: Something done or given by a person to make up for a loss or injury one has caused. To better one's conduct; reform. ANGER: A strong feeling of displeasure and often with active opposition to an insult, injury, or injustice. A strong feeling of displeasure or hostility. ANGUISH: Great pain or trouble of body or mind. Agonizing physical or mental pain; torment. ANONYMITY: The state of having set aside personal considerations of being named or identified for some greater good, practicing principles before personalities. ANONYMOUS: Not named or identified, equal in status and importance. ANTIDOTE: Something used to reverse or prevent the action of a poison. A remedy or other agent used to neutralize or counteract the effects of a poison. ANTI-SOCIAL: Hostile toward society, unfriendly. Behaving in a manner that violates the social or legal norms of society. ANXIETY: Fear or nervousness about what might happen. APATHY: Lack of feeling or of interest, indifference. APPARENT: Appearing to be real or true. Readily understood; clear or obvious. APPRAISAL: The act of setting a value on something. The classification of someone or something with respect to its worth APPRECIATION: The awareness or understanding of the worth or value of something. An expression of gratitude. APPROPRIATE: Especially suitable. Suitable for a particular person, condition, occasion, or place; fitting. APPROVAL-SEEKING: Seeking to be accepted as satisfactory. ARISE: To come into existence. ARRESTED: The state of having the progress stopped, as with a disease. ARROGANCE: A sense of one’s own importance that shows itself in a proud and insulting manner. ASPECT: A certain way in which something appears or may be thought of. A way in which something can be viewed by the mind ASPIRATION: A strong desire to achieve something high or great. A strong desire for high achievement. ASSUME: To pretend to have or be. To be arrogant or pretentious. ASSURANCE: The state of being certain or having confidence in one’s own self. Excessive self-confidence. ATMOSPHERE: A surrounding influence or set of conditions. : A dominant intellectual or emotional environment or attitude ATTACHMENT: Connection by feelings of affection or regard or the connection by which one thing is joined to another. A bond, as of affection or loyalty; fond regard. ATTEMPT: To try to do something. An effort or a try ATTITUDE: A feeling or opinion about a certain fact or situation. An arrogant or hostile state of mind or disposition. ATTRACTION: The state of being attracted or pleased or something that attracts or pleases. The quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts ATTRIBUTE: A quality belonging to a particular person or thing. A quality or characteristic. AUTONOMOUS: Self-governing, free from outside control yet limited within the Fellowship by the Twelve Traditions. AVOID: To keep away from. AWAKE: To become conscious or aware of something. AWAKEN: To awake. AWAKENING: The state of becoming awake. AWARENESS: Having or showing understanding or knowledge of something. B . . . BAFFLED: Defeated or held in check by confusion. Perplexed by many conflicting situations or statements; filled with bewilderment. BALANCE: To make things equal or the state of equality. A stable mental or psychological state; emotional stability. BECOME: To grow to be. Enter or assume a certain state or condition, BEHAVIOR: The way in which one conducts oneself. The manner in which one behaves. BELIEF: Something that one thinks is true. Something believed or accepted as true. BLAMING: The state of placing responsibility on others for something that fails.
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