Indaba: a large meeting at which politicians, professional people, etc. have discussions about an important subject.
Noegenesis: the production of new knowledge from sensory or intellectual experience.
Misogynist: a person who hates, dislikes, mistrusts, or mistreats women.
Conglomerate: anything composed of heterogeneous materials or elements. A corporation consisting of a number of subsidiary companies or divisions in a variety of unrelated industries, usually as a result of merger or acquisition. Geology. a rock consisting of pebbles or the like embedded in a finer cementing material; consolidated gravel.
Doldrums: a belt of calms and light baffling winds north of the equator between the northern and southern trade winds in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, the weather prevailing in this area.
Enigmatic: a puzzling occurrence, situation, statement,person, etc.; perplexing; mysterious: She has a perpetually enigmaticexpression on her face.