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psychopath: commit antisocial and unconscionable acts - they are not troubled by conscience, guilt, remorse, etc over what they have done
conscience: your knowledge with a moral sense of right and wrong
latin: sciens (knowing) + (prefix) con
unconscionable: your conscience is not (un-) working, or you have no conscience
latin: scio (to know) + (prefix) con
- unconscionablenes or unconsionability (noun)

conscious: knowledge or awareness of one's emotions or sensations, or of what's happening around one

root:  (prefix) con              +    scio
               (with, together)     (to know)

science: systematized knowledge as opposed to, for example, to belief, faith, intuition, or guesswork
root: sciens (knowing)
omniscient: all knowing, possessed of infinite knowledge
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root: omnis  +  sciens
      (all)    (to know)
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- omniscience (noun)
prescient: knowing about events before they occur. ie, psychic, or possessed of unusual powers of prediction
- prescience (noun)
nescient: not knowing, or ignorant
- nescience (noun)

glib: slippery
From old english root
- glib liars or glib talkers are smooth and slippery; they have ready answers, fluent tongues, a persuasive air - but, such is the implication of the word, they fool only the most nescient, for their smoothness lacks sincerity and conviction.
- glibness (noun)

egregious:
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latin root:   grex, gregis
             (herd or flock)
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- An egregious lie, act, crime, mistake etc is so exceptionally vicious that it conspicuously stands out from the herd or flock or other bad thing
- egregiousness (noun)
gregarious: one who likes to be with the herd
- gregariousness (noun)
congregate: to gather into a crowd or mass
- congregation (noun)
- another meaning of congregation is -> religious flock
segregate: to apart people or things from herd
- segregation (noun)
aggregate: bring individual items to or towards the herd or flock (also, to come together to or towards herd)
- aggregation (noun)

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