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    Bombastic Words

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    or painful) less intense or severe. 2. to satisfy or appease (hunger or thirst‚ for example). 3. to pacify or calm It sounds so cool....‚ and how it’s spelt looks awesome for how it sounds. just everything about it and its meaning. also "epiphany" is one of the best words as well so good you have it :) asthenic (as-THEN-ik) — extremely thin or wasted ataraxia (at-ah-RAK-see-ah) — calmness or peace of mind; emotional tranquility. I love it because it sounds intriguing. atavistic (at-ah-VIS-tik)

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    values women who are the cookie cutter image of Barbie and not those who have a little more to love or those with muscles or choose to dress non-feminine. These women are seen as an outsider and a weirdo. In the essay “The Politics of Muscles” by Gloria Steinem she tells us how women who don’t fit the feminine image are not valued as much because they are breaking away slowly from the way society sees women‚ Steinem tells us to break away from the Barbie image and be ourselves. The world has come

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    Taboo words

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    teachers that mention non-standard English such as taboo words in their classroom. What are taboo words? Taboo words are“sanctioned or restricted on both institutional and individual levels under the assumption that some harm will occur if a taboo word is spoken. The exact nature of harm to befall the speaker‚ listener‚ or society has never been entirely clear” (Heins‚ 2007). We use taboo wordsto be emotionally expressive‚ but people use taboo words with their friends to show the depth of their relationship

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    Meaning and Nature

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    Meaning and Nature of Psychological Test   A psychological test is an instrument that indicates how much a participant has of the quality the test measures. A test can be defined as a standardized procedure for sampling behavior and describing it with categories or scores. Psychological testing was originally designed for two purposes: to measure intelligence and to detect personality disorders. Over time‚ psychological testing has expanded to measure diverse concepts.   Psychological tests are

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    WHAT IS A JUGGALO? The rap group ICP (Insane Clown Posse) first began to call themselves juggalos and eventually extended the phrase to include us fans. The song "What is a Juggalo" was the first attempt to define the term. The song is very vague and describes a person who labels himself as insane‚ who claims he doesn’t care much about society’s norms‚ and who boasts that he acts any way he pleases. "He" is used here because females are called Juggalettes. How did the name get its

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    word stress

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    Word Stress and Sentence Stress Normally when we say "I feel stressed" it means "I feel anxious". Stress is a kind of worried feeling about life or work. But there is another kind of stress that actually helps us understand. This other kind of stress is an accent that we make on certain syllables and words when speaking English. When words combine to form sentences not all of them are stressed. Sentence stress is the music of spoken English. Sentence stress is what gives English its rhythm or

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    Meaning of Life

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    Refer to the assigned reading for explanation of characteristics listed on the left. Christianity Materialism Personal View Relational God created human beings to live in community. When people lose that sense of love and belonging‚ they lose their meaning and purpose in life. God created family and the neighbor to be provide the human with the relationship needed for hope and healing. In order to carry out production and exchange‚ people have to enter into very definite social relations‚ most fundamentally

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    unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born." This verse states that it would have been better for any person who betrayed Jesus if he had never been born. The verse might be interpreted as meaning that a terminated pregnancy might be better than a completed pregnancy‚ if the child’s life would be miserable. Luke 1:35: "...The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee‚ and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing

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    word and writing

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    Words and Writings Recently‚ I have been reading a magazine called “Forum”‚ which is published our school. It contains varied categories in a tiny book‚ for instance‚ there is artwork‚ poetries‚ function and nonfiction……you name it. I am amazed by two poems‚ “Rhythm of the word” and ”word”. They are both about one object‚ word. Authors stand in different distances and angles to talk about it and that stimulate my understandings‚ interests and usages of words. It is a please to share them with

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    Word Formation

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    Indonesian Blends Barli Bram Sanata Dharma University Yogyakarta‚ Indonesia barli@usd.ac.id Abstract This paper examines Indonesian blends like asdos (ASisten DOSen‚ respectively meaning ’assistant lecturer ’) "lecturer assistant" and wako (WAli KOta ’guardian city ’) "mayor". Even though this topic has‚ to a certain extent‚ been discussed under a different heading called "acronym"‚ for instance by Dardjowidjojo (1979)‚ it will prove beneficial to look into the patterns of this morphological

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