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Someone who makes wildly dark and exaggerated statements (as on an internet forum) with the intent of shocking others

Edgelord

If you say that something happened by ________, you mean that it happened because of certain circumstances, although it was not planned by anyone

Happenstance

To do something without anyone else telling you or asking you to do it

To do sth off your own bat

A situation in which you balance two opposing situations or qualitie

Trade-off

To interpret an event to make it seem favorable or beneficial to oneself or one´s cause

To put a spin on sth

Out of control

Runaway (adj)

To rely on someone or someone of something for success

To hitch one's wagon to sb or sth

An area that looks extremely unpleasant, especially because everything there has been destroyed

Hellscape

Something or someone that causes great suffering of a lot of trouble

Scourge

Unwilling, reluctant

Grudging

The action of supporting or opposing a particular person or thing in an unfair way, because of allowing personal opinions to influence your judgment

Bias

To give someone too much care or protection

Mollycoddle

Websites and internet discussion groups that are concerned with men's interests and rights as opposed to women's, often connected with opposition to feminism or dislike of women

The manosphere

A false appearance that makes someone or something seem more pleasant or better than they really are.

Façade

A bad situation or habit that, after it has started, is likely to get very much worse

A slippery slope

No longer supporting or being satisfied with an organization or idea

Disaffected

A group that is on the periphery of a larger organization because its views are more extreme than the majority

Fringe group

To break into small, sharp pieces

Splinter

To attack or criticize someone in a less powerful position

To punch down on sb

If you are _______, you are unhappy, bored, or tired of something, especially something that you have been experiencing for a long time

To get fed up

It means that the conclusion being described as “__________” is not warranted based on the currently known information

For sth to be a stretch

A specific online community, and the posts associated with it, on the social media website Reddit.

Subreddit

A contribution to public moral discourse that is significantly motivated by the desire that others think one is morally respectable.

Moral grandstanding

A synonym for 'on the other hand'. Basically, it's a way to describe the other side of something: situation, experience, offer.

On the flip side

To reach a particular level and then stay the same.

Plateau

To make a close examination of all the parts of something in order to find something or to separate what is useful from what is not.

Sift

Encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something

Furtherance

Not influenced by strong emotion, and so able to be rational and impartial

Dispassionate

Somebody who is objective, not biased

Impartial

Without any sudden changes, interruptions, or problems

Seamlessly

To make something seem less important or less bad than it really is

Downplay

A very big change in something

A sea change

If you describe someone as a ___________, you are criticizing them for being sympathetic towards people who are poor and suffering, without doing anything practical to help

A bleeding heart

The practice of considering only the immediate advantages of particular actions

Short-termism

Empty, simple, or obvious, especially without decoration or anything that is not necessary

Stark

To be very upset and not know what to do, because you have tried everything possible to solve a problem

To be at your wit's end

If someone is _______ of a crime in a court of law, they are formally declared not to have committed the crime

To Acquit

Certain to succeed

Sure-fire

To change something slightly, especially in order to make it more correct, effective, or suitable

Tweak

permission that is given to a prisoner to leave prison before the end of their sentence on condition that they behave well.

Parole

The state of having lost a relative or close friend because they have died.

Bereavement

To prevent someone from doing something or to make someone less enthusiastic about doing something by making it difficult for that person to do it or by threatening bad results if they do it.

Deter

Smear or rub with oil, typically as part of a religious ceremony

To anoint

A warning to consider something before doing anything more

Caveat

An occasion when something stops moving or happening

To halt

To show or experience great surprise or admiration.

To marvel

A small group of people standing close together

Knot of people

An actor (often humorous)

Thespian

The quality of being attractive and exciting (sexual ______)

Allure

Very hot, very exciting

Sizzling

To reply to somebody by trying to prove that what they said is not true.

To counter

The point at which a decision has been taken which can no longer be changed. “Cross the _______” means go over a point of no return.

Rubicon

A type of contract in the past that forced a servant or apprentice to work for their employer for a particular period of time.

Indenture

Something that must exist or happen before something else can happen or be done.

Prerequisite

The science that deals with the relations between heat and other forms of energy.

Thermodynamics

Too great or beautiful to describe in words.

Ineffable

An extremely dense, compact star composed primarily of neutrons, esp. the collapsed core of a supernova.

Neutron star

An extremely small particle that has no electrical charge, and which rarely reacts with other matter.

Neutrino

A person who does not like to spend money.

A cheapskate

Generally pleasing and engaging often because of a childlike charm and innocence

Winsome

A weak or imaginary opposition (such as an argument or adversary) set up only to be easily confuted

Strawman

A fact or situation that influences the result of something.

Factor

The ordinary people in a society or an organization, especially a political party.

Grassroot

Make small adjustments to (something) in order to achieve the best or a desired performance

Finetune

In physics, ______is a mathematical model that fuses the three dimensions of space and the one dimension of time into a single four-dimensional continuum.

Spacetime

Intensify, increase, or further improve the quality, value, or extent of

Enhance

The phenomenon of the interaction of electric currents or fields and magnetic fields

Electromagnetism

The quantity of matter which a body contains, as measured by its acceleration under a given force or by the force exerted on it by a gravitational field.

Mass

In astronomy, a _________ (or simply ______) is a tightly packed group of stars within a larger star formation. The term almost exclusively refers to the central group of stars found in most spiral galaxies (see galactic spheroid).

Central / galactic bulge

_________ are a defining feature of spiral galaxies. They manifest as spiral-shaped regions of enhanced brightness within the galactic disc. Typically, spiral galaxies exhibit two or more spiral arms. The collective configuration of these arms is referred to as the spiral pattern or spiral structure of the galaxy

Spiral arms

A distinct luminescent part of interstellar medium, which can consist of ionized, neutral, or molecular hydrogen and also cosmic dust

Gaseous nebulae

The ______ principle, also known as the "observation selection effect",[1] is the hypothesis, first proposed in 1957 by Robert Dicke, that the range of possible observations that could be made about the universe is limited by the fact that observations could happen only in a universe capable of developing intelligent life.

Anthropic principle

Denoting or relating to a value or quantity lying at the midpoint of a frequency distribution of observed values or quantities, such that there is an equal probability of falling above or below it.

Median

A number expressing the central or typical value in a set of data, in particular the mode, median, or (most commonly) the mean, which is calculated by dividing the sum of the values in the set by their number.

Average

A home providing care for the sick or terminally ill.

Hospice

A nonspecific, potentially preventable, and often reversible disorder of impaired cognition, which results from various causes in ICU patients.

Intensive care unit delirium

Specialist hospital ward that provides treatment and monitoring for people who are very ill.

Intensive care unit

Relating to different cultures or comparison between them.

Cross-cultural

Not important or serious; not worth considering (trivial percentage)

Trivial

The quality of listening or watching carefully and with interest

Attentiveness

Having a balanced and sensible outlook on life

A grounded person

A member of the group of people who were the original people living in a country

Aborigine

Extremely surprising and difficult to understand or imagine

Mind-boggling

The practice of registering a trade mark as a domain name with the intention of later selling it to the rightful owner

Cybersquatting

Property without physical existance, like patents, trade names, copyrights, etc

Intangible property rights

Refers to the intellectual property of a business which does not want others to know about

Trade secret

Exclusive right granted to authors of creative works to control the use of their original works

Exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor which provides others from making, using or selling his/her invention

Patent

Distincitve register mark used by a business to identify itself and is products/services to consumers

Trade mark

A general principle of law that states that 'he who hath not cannot give"

Nemo dat

A loan raised by a company which paids a fixed rate of interest and which is secured on the asssets of a company in the UK

Debenture

A negotiable bank instrument which is payable on demand and which instructs a bank to pay the sum indicated to the party named on the instrument from funds held on deposit

Cheque//check

A party to whom a negotiable instrument is transferred by the acts of endorsement

Endorsee

A note which unconditionally promises in writing to pay a sum of money to a party either on demand or at a time in the future

Promissory note

If you say sth clearly without any doubt you state it this way

Unequivocally

If sth is freely available to all and not protected by intellectual property

To be within the public the public domain

The term used when a company illegally trades on the reputation of another company by misrepresenting its goods or services as being those of that company

Passing off

Right which prohibits the copying of an original non-commonplace design of the shape or configuration of a product

Design right

Intellectual property right which lacks physical existance

Intangible rights

A privilege which is afforded to third parties to use a copyrighted work without the consent of the copyright holder

Right of fair use

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