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  2. Schadenfreude - Wikipedia

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    Dysregulation. Valence. Emotions. v. t. e. Schadenfreude ( / ˈʃɑːdənfrɔɪdə /; German: [ˈʃaːdn̩ˌfʁɔʏ̯də] ⓘ; lit. "harm-joy") is the experience of pleasure, joy, or self-satisfaction that comes from learning of or witnessing the troubles, failures, pain, suffering, or humiliation of another. It is a borrowed word from German ...

  3. Fun - Wikipedia

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    The word fun is associated with sports, entertaining media, high merriment, [2] and amusement. Although its etymology is uncertain, [1] it has been speculated that it may be derived from Middle English fonne (fool) and fonnen (the one fooling the other). [3] An 18th century meaning (still used in Orkney and Shetland [1]) was "cheat, trick, hoax ...

  4. Teasing - Wikipedia

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    This behavior is intended to distract, disturb, offend, sadden, anger, bother, irritate, or annoy the recipient. Because it is hurtful, it is different from joking and is generally accompanied by some degree of social rejection. Teasing can also be taken to mean "To make fun of; mock playfully" or be sarcastic about and use sarcasm.

  5. synonym, is found to be in pair with eggs or brains. Grammatical patterns This criterion for distinguishing synonyms has been proposed by Phoocharoensil (2010). It is suggested that words in a set of synonyms, although sharing the same core meaning, do not constitute all the same grammatical patterns. The two phrases, consist of and be made up of,

  6. Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United ...

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    v. t. e. This is a list of British words not widely used in the United States. In Commonwealth of Nations, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Ireland, Canada, New Zealand, India, South Africa, and Australia, some of the British terms listed are used, although another usage is often preferred. Words with specific British English meanings that have ...

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    Enjoy the Scrabble-like word game fun of Just Words, available to play for free online on AOL.com.

  8. Parody - Wikipedia

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    A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironic imitation.Often its subject is an original work or some aspect of it (theme/content, author, style, etc), but a parody can also be about a real-life person (e.g. a politician), event, or movement (e.g. the French Revolution or 1960s counterculture).

  9. A Corpus-Based Study of the Synonyms: Perfect, Flawless ...

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    Keywords: Corpus-based instruction, near-synonyms, synonymous words Introduction A synonym is known as a term or expression in the same language that has the same or nearly the same meaning as another (Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries, n.d.). Synonyms can be classified as absolute synonyms and loose synonyms.