Category: L

Low constitutional energy; the ability to adjust to changing circumstances.  

Techniques of parental discipline based on direct, nonphysical expression of anger designed to arouse a child’s feeling of guilt and shame.  

One of the most powerful emotions, characterized by an urgency to possess.    

A dimension of auditory perception related to the intensity of the stimulus. The perceived intensity of sound. It often reflects the amplitude and frequency of a sonic stimulus, but because it varies from person to person, it is a subjective, rather than a purely measurable entity.  

Especially with alcohol use; after several years of excessive use of alcohol, a person experiences intoxication with ingestion of relatively small amounts of alcohol, high tolerance.  

An insurance policy that makes provision for payments directly to the policy holder to compensate for loss of income due to illness or injury. Generally refers to the amount of protection available and the kind of loss which would be paid for under an insurance contract.  

The deterioration of health and/or the quality of life as one mourns the loss of a loved one.  

A characteristic curve in the lower portion of the spinal column lordosis.  

A position for sexual intercourse, common in primates, in which the female is bent over and the male enters her from the rear.  

An arrangement of flagella at one or both ends of a cell. Having bunches of flagella at one end.