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Abscond - to depart secretly and hide oneself

Grog - alcohlic liquor, especially liquor weakened with water. 18th Century English admiral Edward Veron reputedly earned the nickname "Old Grog" because he often wore a cloak made from grogram (a coarse, loosely woven fabric made of silk or a a blend of silk and mohair or wool.) In Old Grog's day, sailors in the Royal Navy were customarily given a daily ration of rum, but in 1740 the admiral, concerened with the health of his men, ordered that the rum be diluted with water. The decision was not popular with sailors, who dubbed the mixture GROG after Vernon.

Liminal - of or relating to a sensory threshold; barely perceptible; of, relating to, or being an intermediate state or phase.
The liminal zone between sleep and wakefulness.

Meme - an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within culture.

The word meme, first came into popular use with the publication of Richard Dawkin's book The Selfish Gene in 1976. Dawkins based the word on a shortening of the Greek "mimeme" (something imitated), making it sound similar to "gene". Dawkins used the term to refer to any cultural entity that an observer might consider a replicator. He hypothesised that people could view many cultural entities as replicators, generally replicating through exposure to humans, who have evolved as efficient (though not perfect) copiers of information and behaviour. Memes do not always get copied perfectly, and might indeed become refined, combined or otherwise modified with other ideas, resulting in new memes. These memes may themselves prove more (or less) efficient replicators than their predecessors, thus providing a framework for a hypothesis of cultural evolution, analogous to the theory of biological evolution based on genes.

Etymology

Historically, the notion of a unit of social evolution, and a similar term (from Greek mneme, meaning "memory"), first appeared in 1904 in a work by the German evolutionary biologist Richard Semon titled Die Mnemischen Empfindungen in ihren Beziehungen zu den Originalempfindungen (loosely translated as "Memory-feelings in relation to original feelings"). According to the OED, the word mneme appears in English in 1921 in L. Simon's translation of Semon's book: The Mneme.

According to Dawkins, who coined the word "meme" without knowing about mnemes, meme represents a shortened form of mimeme (from Greek mimos, "mimic"). Dawkins said he wanted "a monosyllable word that sounds a bit like gene".

Parisimonious - careful with money or resources, especially, frugal to the point of stinginess.

Weal - a sound, healthy, or prosperous state. Well-being.