Session 28

Care to associate yourself with the following personality types:

1) Martinet – demands strict conformity to rules; intolerant to slightest deviation from orders; someone like the army drill sergeant…
n. someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms

2) Sycophant – Bootlicker is the most common word describing a sycophant. These are hypocrites who cultivate people of power so that they can curry favour at the opportune moment.
n. a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage

3) Dilettante – A person with independent income, engaging superficially in the pursuit of fine arts – painting, writing, etc. These artistic efforts are simply a means of passing time pleasantly.
n. an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge
adj. showing frivolous or superficial interest; amateurish; "his dilettantish efforts at painting"

4) Virago – Now this word can be [mis]-applied to women alone [for the reasons of respecting gender bias in English language…]. A virago is a loud-mouthed, shrewish [], turbulent woman who is aggressive & quarrelsome at the same time. On the positive side, a virago is strong-minded, unyielding & sharp-tongued.
n. a noisy or scolding or domineering woman

5) Chauvinist – Such people have a feeling that anything that they own or belongs to them is better than the rest simply because it belongs to them.
n. an extreme bellicose nationalist
n. a person with a prejudiced belief in the superiority of his or her own kind

6) Fanatic – Such people have such an excessive, all inclusive zeal for one thing that your obsession is almost absurd.
n. a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause)
adj. marked by excessive enthusiasm for and intense devotion to a cause or idea; "rabid isolationist"

7) Iconoclast – Champion of protests against established beliefs, revered traditions & cherished customs.
n. someone who tries to destroy traditional ideas or institutions

8) Atheist – Non- believer of the theory of existence of God.

9) Lecher – As a male, U are lascivious, libidinous, lustful, lewd, wanton, immoral… blah blah.
n. man with strong sexual desires

10) Hypochondriac – You suffer from maladies, which according to you are most real, non-existent as they may be in fact.
hypochondria n. chronic and abnormal anxiety about imaginary symptoms and ailments