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I need to describe personality types in the workplace. You get type A personality (perfectionist) and type B (social, enthusiastic). What do you call the personality type who got a...
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3 answerSome political policies, such as a sugar-tax, can be described as 'paternalistic' meaning that they treat the population as children and the government as a parent that 'knows what's best...
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5 answerIt seems to me that some Americans will say hoop. ...
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0 answerI just had this exchangePerson A: "I ate 2 hours ago"Person B: "Actually, you ate 1 hour ago; you ate sooner than you thought"Sooner than you thoughtHit both of...
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1 answerOne of the terms that appears in Merriam-Webster’s Eleventh Collegiate Dictionary (2003) but not in the Tenth Collegiate (1993) or earlier editions of the Collegiate series is untrack:untrack vt (1939)...
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1 answerIn the extractIt will be said that men will not work well if the fear of dismissal does not spur them on. I think it is only a small percentage...
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1 answerI want to describe an anecdote, but want to use a word to describe the time period. So in physics when you move quickly enough to approach the speed of...
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3 answerI remember reading a word once which had this meaning which starts with the letter 'a', like "agritocracy" or "autotocracy". I just can't remember the word now; it specifically means...
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3 answerI've been watching Guy Maddin's 2007 My Winnipeg and there's a sentence there I have difficulty understanding. The narrator is talking about the coldest month, January, and it goes something...
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