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Non-standard: I just started feeling this chronic pain in my back. adverse and averse. Adverse means unfavorable, contrary or hostile. Averse means having a strong feeling of opposition, antipathy, or repugnance. Merriam-Webster notes that adverse is commonly used as an attributive adjective (before the noun), while averse is rarely used in ...
Fatigue that is experienced by participants of these kinds of studies is induced by attention-intensive tasks, [3] and the observed effects of such fatigue are correlated with decline in inhibitory control. Signs of Directed Attention Fatigue include temporarily feeling unusually distractible, impatient, forgetful, or cranky when there is no ...
The term antonym (and the related antonymy) is commonly taken to be synonymous with opposite, but antonym also has other more restricted meanings. Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a continuous spectrum (hot, cold).
A woman is holding her phone, getting ready to reach out to someone she hasn't spoken to in a while. When your phone charger becomes unplugged, reconnecting it is easy.
They’re likely taking note of Gen Xers and boomers who are struggling to actually retire. Taking a look at unretiring baby boomers and Gen Xers, already exhausted young adults are finding that ...
The symptoms of exhaustion disorder include fatigue that does not improve with rest, [11] reduced stress tolerance and various physical symptoms. [12] Some of the more common physical symptoms are headaches, dizziness and bowel issues. Most patients also suffer from sleeping problems. [13]
Various hypotheses try to account for the experience of suffering. One of these, the pain overlap theory [29] takes note, thanks to neuroimaging studies, that the cingulate cortex fires up when the brain feels suffering from experimentally induced social distress, as well as physical pain. The theory proposes therefore that physical pain and ...
Prosody helps convey many other pragmatic functions, including expressing attitudes (approval, uncertainty, dissatisfaction, and so on), flagging turn-taking intentions (to hold the floor, to yield the turn, to invite a backchannel like uh-huh, and so on), and marking topic structure (starting a new topic, closing a topic, interpolating a ...