xBookUtils.terms['fn_bedguide11e-ch29-p18'] = 'fink: Tattletale or other contemptible person.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_bedguide11e-ch29-p21'] = 'Jefferson: Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826), the third president of the United States and the main author of the Declaration of Independence.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_bedguide11e-ch29-p22'] = 'Thoreau: Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), an American writer and naturalist.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_bedguide11e-ch29-p23'] = 'Buckminster Fuller: American inventor, architect, and engineer (1895–1983) who dropped out of Harvard to work on solving global resource and environmental problems.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_bedguide11e-ch29-p24'] = 'Adlai Stevenson: American politician (1900–1965) who was greatly admired for championing liberal causes but badly lost two presidential elections.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_bedguide11e-ch29-p25'] = 'mavericks: Nonconformists.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_bedguide11e-ch29-p38'] = 'coddle: Indulge; satisfy.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_bedguide11e-ch29-p39'] = 'frumentum: Latin word for corn or grain.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_bedguide11e-ch29-p50'] = 'vapid: Dull.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_bedguide11e-ch29-p81'] = 'distance learning: Remote education in which instruction and lectures are delivered online.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_bedguide11e-ch29-p88'] = 'discourse: Discussion.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_bedguide11e-ch29-p93'] = 'gullible: Easily convinced.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_bedguide11e-ch29-p100'] = 'pieties: Uncontested beliefs.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_bedguide11e-ch29-p101'] = 'Allan Bloom: American philosopher and academic (1930–1992) best known for his controversial bestseller The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s Students (1987).';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_bedguide11e-ch29-p104'] = 'bromides: Unoriginal remarks used to calm or placate.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_bedguide11e-ch29-p109'] = 'absolve: Declare free of responsibility.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_bedguide11e-ch29-p112'] = 'autodidact: A self-taught person.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_bedguide11e-ch29-p115'] = 'late-night bull sessions: Informal, spontaneous conversations about important topics.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_bedguide11e-ch29-p142'] = 'digits: Fingers.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_bedguide11e-ch29-p143'] = 'harried: Bothered or distracted by nuisances.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_bedguide11e-ch29-p150'] = 'CEO: Chief executive officer, the highest-ranking executive at a company.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_bedguide11e-ch29-p189'] = 'transcendent truth: Absolute truth unaffected by time and space.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_bedguide11e-ch29-p196'] = 'utilitarian logic: Based on the ethical view that right and wrong is dependent on whether something has positive or negative consequences.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_bedguide11e-ch29-p203'] = 'consumer marketplace: A system driven by marketing and advertising that allows consumers to make their own decisions in purchasing goods and services.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_bedguide11e-ch29-p210'] = 'moral ecology: Institutionalized set of norms, values, and assumptions.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_bedguide11e-ch29-p211'] = 'self-aggrandizement: Exaggerating one’s power and importance.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_bedguide11e-ch29-p220'] = 'John Stuart Mill: A nineteenth-century philosopher, economist, activist, and proponent of utilitarianism.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_bedguide11e-ch29-p221'] = 'hedonistic: Committed to seeking pleasure as having utmost importance.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_bedguide11e-ch29-p226'] = 'endowed: Provided with.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_bedguide11e-ch29-p237'] = 'enmeshed: Entangled.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_bedguide11e-ch29-p246'] = 'epistemological modesty: Understanding the limits to what we can know.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_bedguide11e-ch29-p283'] = 'pinned, tumbl’d, and liked: In reference to providing positive feedback on, or reposting on, various social network channels (Pinterest, Tumblr, and Facebook).';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_bedguide11e-ch29-p286'] = 'tchotchkes: Knickknacks, accessories.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_bedguide11e-ch29-p287'] = 'diptych: Two flat panels attached with a hinge.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_bedguide11e-ch29-p298'] = 'aphorisms: Terse sayings stating truths or wise observations.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_bedguide11e-ch29-p299'] = 'Martina Navratilova: A Czech-American top world tennis player in the 1970s and 1980s known for her political activism.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_bedguide11e-ch29-p300'] = 'François Rabelais: Priest, physician, and writer (1494–1553) of the French Renaissance, known for his satire.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_bedguide11e-ch29-p301'] = 'Confucius: Chinese teacher and philosopher (551–479 BCE) known for his aphorisms on morality and education.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_bedguide11e-ch29-p308a'] = 'metonym: A word or object used as a stand-in for something with which it is closely associated.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_bedguide11e-ch29-p315a'] = 'proletariat: Working class.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_bedguide11e-ch29-p332'] = 'denigrates: Criticizes.';
xBookUtils.terms['fn_bedguide11e-ch29-p333'] = 'Norse mythology: Northern Germanic/Scandinavian mythology.';