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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