Vocabulary word of the day

[Vaughan]

Spaghetto, confetto, and graffito are the singular forms of spaghetti, confetti, and graffiti.

Although it might sound a little strange, the word for an individual piece of spaghetti is spaghetto. The same goes for a single piece of confetti, which is confetto, as well as a single piece of graffiti, which is graffito.

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[Vaughan]

“Arachibutyrophobia” is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.

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It's pretty common to be afraid of heights and scared of spiders, but if you have arachibutyrophobia, you're among the smaller group of people that suffer from a fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of their mouths. This phobia is often connected to a fear of choking or a fear of sticky textures, but it can also be its own isolated fear.

[JessiCapri]

[honeydripps]

Hypocrisy

Hypocrisy is the practice of engaging in the same behavior or activity for which one criticizes another
or the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform.

[Vaughan]

alt – is someone who completely reinvents themselves from head to toe. This could be someone you'd never otherwise notice on the street, yet through inventive styling, self-applied makeup, self-styled clothing and hair, they create a whole new persona for themselves.

Passive-aggressive behaviour is a pattern of indirectly expressing negative feelings instead of openly addressing them. There's a disconnect between what a passive-aggressive person says and what he or she does.
Examples of passive-aggressive behaviour might include avoiding direct or clear communication, evading problems, fear of intimacy or competition, making excuses, blaming others, obstructionism, playing the victim, feigning compliance with requests, sarcasm, backhanded compliments, hiding behind an alt, and hiding anger.

[Vaughan]

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[Vaughan]

TROLL

A troll is Internet slang for a person who intentionally tries to instigate conflict, hostility, or arguments in an online social community. …
Trolling can occur anywhere that has an open area where people can freely post their thoughts and opinions.

[Vaughan]

stalking

The crime of illegally following and watching someone over a period of time.

[Vaughan]

Victim playing

Victim playing (also known as playing the victim, victim card, or self-victimization) is the fabrication or exaggeration of victimhood for a variety of reasons such as to justify abuse of others, to manipulate others, a coping strategy, attention seeking or diffusion of responsibility.

[Vaughan]

Astronaut is a compound word derived from the two Ancient Greek words “Astro” meaning “star” and “naut” meaning “sailor”. So astronaut literally means “star sailor”.

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[Vaughan]

pseudointellectual

noun
a person exhibiting intellectual pretensions that have no basis in sound scholarship.
a person who pretends an interest in intellectual matters for reasons of status.

adjective
of, relating to, or characterized by fraudulent intellectuality; unscholarly:
a pseudointellectual book.

[JessiCapri]

ADJECTIVE
“Characteristic of the surreal or dreamlike style of the artist Salvador Dalí.”

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