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 Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 11:27 am
Insomniac: n. One who suffers from insomnia. adj. Having or causing insomnia. : affected with insomnia
: one affected with insomnia
adj : experiencing or accompanied by sleeplessness; "insomniac old people"; "insomniac nights"; "lay sleepless all night"; "twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights"- Shakespeare [syn: sleepless, watchful] n : someone who cannot sleep [syn: sleepless person]
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I'm hoping you all already knew what an insomniac was anyway.
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Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 11:32 am
Insomnia:
n. Chronic inability to fall asleep or remain asleep for an adequate length of time.
prolonged and usually abnormal inability to obtain adequate sleep called also agrypnia
n : an inability to sleep; chronic sleeplessness [ant: hypersomnia]
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I'm also assuming you all knew insomnia too.
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Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 11:38 am
Macabre:
Suggesting the horror of death and decay; gruesome: macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle Ages. See Synonyms at ghastly.
Constituting or including a representation of death.
adj : shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds"; "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen" [syn: ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome]
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Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 11:51 am
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Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 1:14 pm
If you do any greek tragedy in high school, you should know this, especially if you study Aristotle's definition of "tragic hero"
catharsis: publically admitting ones mistakes and purifying their emotions.
In greek tragedy it is used so that the audience feels pity for the character, and fear for themselves.
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Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 1:16 pm
Some more stuff from greek tragedy:
hamartia: a character flaw that brings about their downfall.
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Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 1:17 pm
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Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 1:20 pm
onanism: 'tis another word for masturbation surprised xd
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Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 1:22 pm
catalyst: somebody or something that makes things happen.
If you do any chemistry in your lives you'd know that in chemical reactions it increases the rate of the reaction, but itself does not change...I know WAY too much useless crap sweatdrop
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Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 1:23 pm
oooooooo I knew the catalyst thing! *feels smart*
*dies lauging at the onanism* xd
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sleeping_beauty_zoey Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 1:24 pm
ballista: it's a kind of catapult that draws back the projectile so that there is alot of tension in the rope. The rope is then cut and the projectile goes flying.
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Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 1:25 pm
trebuchet: (I think there's supose to be an accent in there somewhere... sweatdrop ) another type of catapult that has a heavy counterweight on the other side so that it hurls stuff like boulders.
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Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 1:26 pm
sleeping_beauty_zoey oooooooo I knew the catalyst thing! *feels smart*
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Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 1:29 pm
Here's something interesting!!
Ever wonder how far you can count? Try counting to TREDECILLION!
tredecillion: 1 followed by 42 zeros!! eek
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sleeping_beauty_zoey Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 1:34 pm
Ariadyne Here's something interesting!!
Ever wonder how far you can count? Try counting to TREDECILLION!
tredecillion: 1 followed by 42 zeros!! eek holy s**t! eek
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