Below you will find a Wiki of interesting words used by Professors during lectures.

Prorogue

Encountered in Global Political Economy class

Merriam Websters definition:

1: DEFER, POSTPONE

2: to terminate a session of (something, such as a British parliament) by royal prerogative

Demotivation

Experienced after being blocked from creating a wiki by the Confluence administrator and by continuous deletion of work on the common wiki page.

Dictionary.com definition:

the act or an instance of motivating, or providing with a reason to act in a certain way:I don't understand what her motivation was for quitting her job.
the state or condition of being motivated or having a strong reason to act or accomplish something:We know that these students have strong motivation to learn.
something that motivates; inducement; incentive:Clearly, the company's long-term motivation is profit.

Annoyance

Experienced after my personal page was deleted again.

Collins Dictionary has this to say about it:

1. uncountable noun [oft with poss]

Annoyance is the feeling that you get when someone makes you feel fairly angry or impatient.
To her annoyance the stranger did not go away.
He admitted to some annoyance with the home team's tactics.
Synonyms: irritation, trouble, anger, bother   More Synonyms of annoyance

       2. countable noun [usually singular]

An annoyance is something that makes you feel angry or impatient.

Resignation

Feeling I was experiencing after seeing my Wiki page was deleted again

Lexico's explanation of the meaning:

1. An act of resigning from a job or office

‘he announced his resignation’

• 1. A document conveying someone's intention of resigning.

     ‘I've handed in my resignation’
     
     

  2. Chess: An act of ending a game by conceding defeat without being checkmated.

     
     

        2 Mass noun: The acceptance of something undesireable but inevitable.

                    ‘a shrug of resignation’

Abdicate

Following resignation I remembered the abdication of the Dutch Monarch. In itself it is an interesting word, but not commonly used. It sounds quite nice. The word starts to appear more in the news, but with another meaning. Mostly, that of giving up. Even in sports.

Vocabulary.com gives the following meaning to the word "Abdicate":

Sometimes someone in power might decide to give up that power and step down from his or her position. When they do that, they abdicate their authority, giving up all duties and perks of the job.

The original meaning of the verb abdicate came from the combination of the Latin ab- "away" and dicare "proclaim." (Note that in the charming relationships between languages with common roots, the Spanish word for "he says" is dice, which comes directly from dicare.) The word came to refer to disowning one's children, and it wasn't until the 17th century that the first use of the word relating to giving up power or public office was recorded.

ASSESSMENT: 100 POINTS

abdicate means to:

Declaim, Renounce, Banter, Jostle

Definitions of abdicate

1. give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations

“The King abdicated when he married a divorcee”

Synonyms: renounce

Type of: give up, renounce, resign, vacate leave (a job, post, or position) voluntarily