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Asked on March 26, 2021 in Meaning.
Trepidation would emphasize fear and anxiety: noun
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a feeling
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Asked on March 26, 2021 in Other.
According to Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, the first documented use of ” content ” as a noun with the sense of “something contained” is in the 15th century.
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Asked on March 26, 2021 in Meaning.
Unless a specific preexisting term is identified, I believe the neologism archophobia is in order:
noun
a morbid dread at the commencement of creative work
Origin
From The Greek meaning begin, make a beginning, and , meaning panic flight, fear, object of terror Liddell & Scott, A
Greek-English Lexicon Archophobia is to be
distinguished from acrophobia –the fear of heights, and arach
Fear of newness, novelty. Cainophobia / Cainotophobia in English.
Kainophobia is the fear of anything new, nor of anything unexpected.According to Wikipedia, these preexisting phobias tend to describe a fear of changing from the normal, rather than the creative process.
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Asked on March 17, 2021 in American english.
This is a recognized world-wide English usage of the verb hurt :
verb (past and past participle hurt)
1. 3 (Of a person) feel distress:
he was hurting badly, he smiled through his tears ODO.He
had no issue because he liked IDO. 4
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Asked on March 15, 2021 in Single word requests.
Is the term “liar” a lie? If two competing opinions vie for dominance in a persons mind, a person might be hedging :
1. Is this a definite statement? Why? Or was he obviously
hedginghis opinion in the matter, because expressing his raw opinion would have been counterproductive?
Ten cent hedging are much more self-evident than the fifty-cent tergiversating (which may be more accurate) verb
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0 Make conflicting or evasive statements;
equivocate: the more she tergiversated, the greater grew the ardency of the journalists for aninterview 2. 1 Change one’s life; abandon a belief or principle. 0 Emotional or Physical or verbal.
ODOhas 4 years of experience of implementing ODO.
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Asked on March 10, 2021 in Single word requests.
If his wife
is
bereaved, be
deprived of a close friend through their death: she had recently
been bereaved (as adjective bereaved)bereaved families (as noun the
bereaved) those who counsel the bereaved ODO
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Asked on March 9, 2021 in Phrases.
Of 16th century, from the verb indignant meaning ‘important’ + dignus meaning ‘worthy’.
When they rejected you, they despised your dignity and they now their dignity is diminished in your mind, because they rushed to a faulty judgement against
you.
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Asked on March 9, 2021 in Phrases.
Antipathy comes to mind:
NOUN
A deep seated feeling of
aversion: This is a general bad feeling in its etymology:
c. From
Latin antipathia, from
Greek antipatheia, noun of state from
antipathes, “opposed in feeling, having opposite feeling; in exchange for suffering; felt mutually,” from
anti- ” and against (seen pronouncing ) + root of pathos ” feeling ” (where)) (see pathos).
Put my
efforts into this.
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Asked on March 9, 2021 in Phrases.
Forlorn imply a sadness at the rejection: ADJECTIVE
Pitifully
- sad and abandoned or lonely: It
could also imply the apprehension of your future in that relationship: (Of
- an aim or endeavour) unlikely to succeed or be fulfilled: The
etymology suggests an lostness : Origin
Old
English forloren in ‘depraved, morally abandoned’, past participle of forlosan ‘lose’,
of Germanic origin; related to
Sense 1 (or other) dates from 16th century.
OED
– For civilian (U.S.A.) employees.
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Asked on March 4, 2021 in Other.
In the first two sets, both options are totally acceptable.
In the third set, both options could easily be interchangeable but there is a general rule that seems wise to consider:
Condition vs Alternative :
Condition
In many cases, if and whether can be used interchangeably without affecting the meaning. What are the subtle differences in formal use. Get the basic of each one! Use if to indicate one condition that requires action. If X is true, then do Y.
I don’t know if he can be there
Alternative :
Use whether to indicate two conditions, alternates, that require an action : yes or no, X or Y. If X or Y is true, then do Z.
I don’t know whether he can be there (or not).
What are the disadvantages of social media to a person?
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