Vocab

Scholarly – spending a lot of time studying.

Dialogue – conversations in a book.

Oral – spken rather than written

Nubile – sexually attractive

Dormitory = Dirty Room

Annals : record of events, historical records 

deceive : to cause or allow someone to believe something is true when it is actually false; to mislead

jettison : to throw away, to cast off

credulous: too ready to believe

exceed : to go beyond a limit, to be greater than 

Bollywood the motion-picture industry in India

dogma : an established opinion

graffitti : drawings or writing on a wall

clamor : n. noise, v. to make noise

benign : harmless, mild, gentle

agnolotti  pasta in the form of semicircular cases containing a filling 

nocebo a harmless substance that when taken by a patient is associated with harmful

flex–cuff a plastic strip that can be fastened as a restraint around a person’s wrists or ankles

crunk a style of Southern rap music featuring repetitive chants and rapid dance rhythms  

microgreen a shoot of a standard salad plant  

effects due to negative expectations or the psychological condition of the patient 

telenovela a soap opera produced in and televised in or from many Latin-American countries 

viewshed the natural environment that is visible from one or more viewing points 

Terdbird : A Sea Gull manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.

Assmosis : The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.

Salmon day: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.

Cube farm : An office filled with cubicles.

Prairie dogging: When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people’s heads pop up over the walls to see what’s going on.

 E potato: The on-line, wired generation’s answer to the couch potato.

Sitcoms : Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What Yuppies get into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids.

Stress puppy: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.

Swipeout : An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.

Charmin Subsidey: Euphemism for swiping free TP from one’s workplace.

Irritainment : Entertainment and media spectacles that are Annoying but you find yourself unable to stop watching them.

Seagull Sphere : The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file.

Generica : Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, and subdivisions.

Ohnosecond : That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you’ve just made a BIG mistake.

Woofs : Well-Off Older Folks.

Crop Dusting : Surreptitiously passing gas while passing through a Cube Farm.

BLADING : The act of rollerblading.

 

Hot : sexually actrative

 

DETOX : A clinic or treatment facility at which substance abusers attempt to rid themselves of dependency on a particular drug.

 

POPAGANDA : Music that is popular with the general public, and has purpose or is trying promote particular ideas.

JONES, n. Slang. An intense desire.

SPAM : Multiple posts of the same message to the same or different Usenet newsgroups or to an e-mail account.

 

411 : Information or informative details, usually about a planned event or activity.

 

GLOBOBOSS : A cosmopolitan executive that has the ability to perform well across the globe.

MOTO : Energy for action toward a goal; motivation.

 

WALLIN’ : Slang. to sit or stand against a wall at a party.

 

FLAGGIN’ : Slang. Flashing or giving gang signs.

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