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humbly or earnestly, as in praying Emasculate- To deprive of strength or vigor; weaken Attenuate- To reduce in force, value, amount, or degree; weaken Specious- suspicious/ weak argument Adumbrate- to give a sketchy outline of Tautological- a statement that is true by virtue of its logical form (circular reasoning) Teleological- a theoretical argument that assumes a series of stages on the way towards a predetermined end point Exigencies- an urgent need or demand Desiderata- something that was needed or wanted integrity was a desiderata Stochastic (from the Greek "" for "aim" or "guess") means random. A stochastic process is one whose behavior is non-deterministic in that a system's subsequent state is determined both by the process's predictable actions and by a random element. Stochastic crafts are complex systems whose practitioners, even if complete experts, acknowledge that outcomes result from both known and unknown causes. Examples are warfare, meteorology, and rhetoric, where success and failure are so difficult to predict that explicit allowances are made for uncertainty. Behooves - To be necessary or proper for: It behooves you at least to try.