Monday, April 27, 2009

Schizophrenia

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Schizophrenia: noun [uncountable]
a serious mental illness in which someone's thoughts and feelings are not based on what is really happening around them.

Reckon

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Reckon: verb [transitive not in progressive]
Definition:
1. spoken especially British English to think or suppose something.
2. to guess a number or amount, without calculating it exactly.
3. [usually passive] to think that someone or something is a particular kind of person or thing.

Chorus

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Chorus: noun [countable] verb [transitive]
Definition:
noun
1. the part of a song that is repeated after each EVRSE.
2. a large group of people who sing together [= choir].
3. a piece of music written to be sung by a large group of people.
4. a group of singers, dancers, or actors who act together in a show but do not have the main parts.
5. a chorus of thanks/disapproval/protest etc something that a lot of people all say at the same time.
6. in chorus if people say something in chorus, they say the same thing at the same time.

verb
if people chorus something, they say it at the same time.

Naive

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Naive: adjective

Definition:
not having much experience of how complicated life is, so that you trust people too much and believe that good things will always happen.

Disproportionate

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Disproportionate: adjective

Definition:
too much or too little in relation to something else.

Idiosyncrasy

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Idiosyncrasy: noun

Definition:
1. an unusual habit or way of behaving that someone has.
2. an unusual or unexpected feature that something has.

Rehearse

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Rehearse: verb
1. [intransitive and transitive] to practise or make people practise something such as a play or concert in order to prepare for a public performance.
2. [transitive] to practise something that you plan to say to someone.
3. [transitive] formal to repeat an opinion that has often been expressed before.