cukoos
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hockeyplaya22 on April 25, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 cagey | marked by cleverness |
| statutory | enacted, created, or regulated by law |
| feign | to fake:to give false appearence of |
| psychopath | mentally ill or unstable person |
| prototype | an original model on which something is patterned |
| cadaver | a dead body |
| sadistic | delight in cruelty |
| id | one of three divisions in ones makeup based on needs |
| superego | one of three divisions in the body makeup based on rules of socieety and reactions to moral decisions |
| matriarchy | system of soical organization where descent and inheritance are traced through the female line |
| ineffectual | not producing the intended effect |
| insinuate | to suggest in an indirect way |
| juggernaut | a massive force |
| libido | sexual drive |
| stoicism | indifference to pleasure or pain |
| maudlin | weakly sentimental |
| nostalgia | a wistful yearning for the past |
| recrimination | a retaliatory accusation |
| intuitive | known or perceived quickly/naturally |
| constitute | make up |
| schizophrenic | a disorder that deals with lost contact with the enviornment |
| latent | present and capable of coming though not now visible |
| oepidal | of or relating to the oepipus complex--which in psychoanalytical theory deals with repressed sexual desires concerning the parent of the opposite sex. |
| gabble | to talk fast |
| lope | to move or ride with ease |
| therapeutic | providing or assisting in a cure |
| epileptic | someone who has epilepsy |
| trite | boring from overuse |
| punitive | of, or relating to, punishment |
| lobotomy | surgical severance of nerve fibers connecting the frontal lobes to the thalamus performed especially formerly for the relief of mental disorders |
| aplomb | complete composure |
| flout | to treat with contemptuous disregard |
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