| Cachinnate: To express amusement, mirth, or scorn by emitting loud, inarticulate sounds: cackle, guffaw, laugh. |
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| Bollocks!
O Callooh! O Callay! Cats! Criminy! Fiddledeedee! Heehaw! Jeez! Pshaw!
Yuk-yuk! Zounds! |
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| Caducous: Shedding at an early stage of development. |
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| The
first sign of senility is the loss of humorlessness. |
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| Caffeinism: A toxic condition marked by elevated blood pressure, rapid breathing, heart palpitations, and insomnia, caused by excessive ingestion of coffee and other caffeine-containing substances. |
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| Let's
go now, right now, not later, not next time, not next month, I mean
what'cha waiting for, another dance, another chance? |
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| Camus, Albert: French writer whose works concern the absurdity of the human condition. |
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| "A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work
of art is a confession." |
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| Chinook:
1. A Native American people relocated to western Washington. 2. An unseasonably
warm wind. 3. A jargon of Native American and European words used for
trade, conversion, and treaty negotiations. |
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| 1.
The first sign of entropy, as in the diaspora of a critical mass. 2.
A certain uneasiness, a dread. 3. A prototypical motorhome or military
transport helicopter. |
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| Colonel Blimp: A pompous, reactionary, ultranationalistic person. After a cartoon character created by Sir David Low (1891-1963). | ||||
| "Gad,
Lord Beaverton is right. This League of Nations is a big sham. Why,
it's nearly all foreigners." |
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| Conation:
The aspect of mental processes or behavior directed toward action or
change and including impulse, desire, volition, and striving. |
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| A
principal characteristic of the human race is its unbridled craving
for saturated fat. |
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| Contumacy: Obstinate or contemptuous resistance
to authority; stubborn rebelliousness |
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| A
principal characteristic of the human race is its reflexive
refusal to sit down. |
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| Couvade:
A practice in certain cultures in which the husband of a woman in labor
takes to his bed as though he were bearing the child. |
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| A
principal characteristic of the human race is its unimpeded instinct
to run back into the burning village. |
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