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  2. Directed attention fatigue - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Boreout - Wikipedia

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    The symptoms of boreout lead employees to adopt coping or work-avoidance strategies that create the appearance that they are already under stress, suggesting to management both that they are heavily "in demand" as workers and that they should not be given additional work: "The boreout sufferer's aim is to look busy, to not be given any new work by the boss and, certainly, not to lose the job."

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

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    number of people taking part in an event ("voter turnout") a railroad switch or point equipment output a place along a highway for slower cars to pull over, in order to let others pass, or for brief parking (UK: layby) twat someone who is being stupid *(offensive; considered vulgar by some)

  5. 'I'm Mad as Hell': Famous Movie Quotes About the Workplace - AOL

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    When fictional television anchor Howard Beale leaned out of the window, chanting, "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore!" in the 1976 movie 'Network,' he struck a chord with ...

  6. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    Non-standard: But he took no flack from her people. flesh and flush. To flesh out is to add flesh to a skeleton, or metaphorically to add substance to an incomplete rendering. To flush out is to cause game fowl to take to flight, or to frighten any quarry from a place of concealment. Standard: The forensic pathologist will flesh out the skull ...

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    to hit a line drive (a hard straight shot) in baseball liquor: the broth resulting from the prolonged cooking of meat or vegetables. Green liquor is traditionally served with pie and mash in the East End of London a distilled beverage * (hard liquor) strongly alcoholic beverage; spirits

  8. Aid worker notes ‘Ukraine fatigue’ but urges UK help as war ...

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  9. Dysgraphia - Wikipedia

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    Dysgraphia is a hard disorder to detect as it does not affect specific ages, gender, or intelligence. [13] The main concern in trying to detect dysgraphia is that people hide their disability behind their verbal fluency/comprehension and strong syntax coding as a meas to mask the handwriting impairments caused by the disorder. [13]