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  2. Talk:Schadenfreude - Wikipedia

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    yes many other words have synonyms and antonyms but this is not an average word. What evidence we have from neuroscience suggests that what makes humans intelligent and more capable than other animals is our ability to hold complex emotional states. Being emotional is to be human.

  3. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    a person employed to oversee the cleaning and security of a public building, e.g. a school. a person employed to oversee the cleaning and security of a building (UK: caretaker, especially for private residences; for schools etc. janitor is also used in the UK) jelly a fruit flavoured dessert set with gelatin (US: Jell-O (trademark))

  4. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.

  5. Misanthropy - Wikipedia

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    Positive misanthropes are active enemies of humanity. They wish harm to other people and undertake attempts to hurt them in one form or another. Negative misanthropy, by contrast, is a form of peaceful anthropophobia that leads people to isolate themselves. They may wish others well despite seeing serious flaws in them and prefer to not involve ...

  6. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus or synonym dictionary lists similar or related words; these are often, but not always, synonyms. [15] The word poecilonym is a rare synonym of the word synonym. It is not entered in most major dictionaries and is a curiosity or piece of trivia for being an autological word because of its meta quality as a synonym of synonym.

  7. Sexual misconduct - Wikipedia

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    The "definition of sexual misconduct is far from clear" and it is a "lay term, sometimes used in institutional policies or by professional bodies", to deal with cases marked by power imbalance, coercion, and predatory behaviour." [5] Educator sexual misconduct is discussed in detail in this article.

  8. Collateral damage - Wikipedia

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    it is jargon, and to the extent that people cannot decode it, it conceals what is actually going on; it is a euphemism; abstract, agentless, and affectless, so that even if people succeeded in associating it with a real act or event, they would be insulated from any feelings of repulsion or moral outrage".

  9. Katagelasticism - Wikipedia

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    There is a broad variety of things that katagelasticists would do—starting from harmless pranks or word plays to truly embarrassing and even harmful, mean-spirited jokes. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They would be of the opinion that mocking others is part of the daily life and if others do not like being laughed at, they should just fight back.