The Body of Christopher Creed
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chickenkilla on April 6, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Winsome | charming |
| inept | not elegant or graceful in expression |
| Smarmy | unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech |
| Miffed | aroused to impatience or anger |
| tyrannize | rule or exercise power over (somebody) in a cruel and autocratic manner |
| Cathartic | emotionally purging (of e.g. art) |
| Proctor | someone who supervises (an examination) |
| Freduian Slip | an inadvertent mistake in speech or writing that is thought to reveal a person's unconscious motives, wishes, or attitudes. |
| Maniacal | wildly disordered |
| Sporadic | recurring in scattered and irregular or unpredictable instances |
| Omnipresent | being present everywhere at once |
| Gestapo | the secret state police in Nazi Germany |
| Provocation | unfriendly behavior that causes anger or resentment |
| Derogatory | expressive of low opinion |
| Spiel | plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson) |
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