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Immorality: "The morality of those who are having a better time" - Henry Louis Mencken
danger close: "(DOD, NATO) In artillery and naval gunfire support, information in a call for fire to indicate that friendly forces are within 600 meters of the target." - about.com
daft: "1 a : silly, foolish b : mad, insane 2 Scottish : frivolously merry" - m-w.com
sedition: "incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority" - m-w.com
incantation: "a written or recited formula of words designed to produce a particular effect" - m-w.com
vengeance: "punishment inflicted in retaliation for an injury or offense : retribution" - m-w.com
insurrection: "an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government" - m-w.com
triumph: "to obtain victory: prevail" - m-w.com
"vet: to subject to thorough appraisal; to evaluate." - dictionary.com word of the day
paragon: "a model of excellence or perfection" - m-w.com
luminary: "any body that gives light; also, a person of eminence or brilliant achievement." - dictionary_wotd
induce: "to call forth..." - m-w.com
immutable: not able to be changed
farcical: "laughably inept" - m-w.com
forsaken: "renounced or turned away from entirely" - m-w.com
autodarwinate: "To remove oneself from the gene-pool, thereby furthering the evolution of one's species." - wiktionary protologisms
calamity: "a disastrous event marked by great loss and lasting distress and suffering" - m-w.com
anhedonia: "inability to feel joy"
egregious: "conspicuously bad" - m-w.com
sacrilicious: "Something amusingly sacreligious, ie. 'deliciously' sacreligious." - urbandictionary.com
inordinate: "exceeding reasonable limits" - m-w.com
daunting: "tending to overwhelm or intimidate" - m-w.com
repent: "to turn from sin and dedicate oneself to the amendment of one's life" - m-w.com
inane: "lacking significance, meaning, or point" - m-w.com
pariah: "one that is despised or rejected" - m-w.com
dire: "1a: exciting horror 2: warning of disaster 3a: desperately urgent" - m-w.com
untenable: "not able to be defended" - m-w.com
salacious: "arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination" - m-w.com
heinous: "hatefully or shockingly evil" - m-w.com
nefarious: "flagrantly wicked or impious : EVIL" - m-w.com
conflagration: "FIRE; especially : a large disastrous fire" - m-w.com
visceral: "1 : felt in or as if in the viscera [(internal organs)] : DEEP <visceral conviction> 2 : not intellectual : INSTINCTIVE, UNREASONING <visceral drives>" - m-w.com
raze: "to destroy to the ground" - m-w.com
flay: "to strip off the skin or surface of" - m-w.com
lecherous: "given to or suggestive of... inordinate indulgence in sexual activity" - m-w.com
euphoria: "a feeling of well-being or elation" - m-w.com
flagrant: "conspicuously offensive <flagrant errors>; especially : so obviously inconsistent with what is right or proper as to appear to be a flouting of law or morality <flagrant violations of human rights>" - m-w.com
epicenter: "the part of the earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake" - m-w.com
catharsis: "An explosive release of hitherto dammed-up emotions that is sometimes believed to have therapeutic effects." - http://www.wwnorton.com/college/psych/gman5/glossary/C.htm

"Watching aggressive media output, it is proposed, does not make viewers more aggressive; quite the contrary - since the vicarious aggression experienced through the media purges the viewer of aggression, the result of watching violence is less aggression." - http://www.cultsock.ndirect.co.uk/MUHome/cshtml/media/efterms.html
rampage: "violently angry and destructive behavior" - princeton wordnet
prurient: "Etymology: ... prurire to itch, crave; akin to Latin pruna glowing coal, Sanskrit plosati he singes, and probably to Latin pruina hoarfrost -- more at FREEZE : marked by or arousing an immoderate or unwholesome interest or desire; especially : marked by, arousing, or appealing to unusual sexual desire"
retribution: "3 : something given or exacted in recompense; especially: PUNISHMENT" - www.m-w.com
rancor: "bitter deep-seated ill will" - m-w.com
rampant: "marked by a menacing wildness, extravagance, or absence of restraint" - www.m-w.com
stoic: "not affected by or showing passion or feeling; especially : firmly restraining response to pain or distress" - www.m-w.com
"Vegetarian - that's an old Indian word meaning 'lousy hunter.'" - Andy Rooney
eminently: "to a high degree" - www.m-w.com (eminently quotable)
coup de grace: "a death blow or shot administered to end the suffering of one mortally wounded [French - literally, a 'blow of mercy']" - http://coupdegrace.tv/
vanquish: "to overcome in battle : subdue completely" - www.m-w.com
defenestration: "a throwing of a person or thing out of a window" - www.m-w.com
peril: "exposure to the risk of being injured, destroyed, or lost" - www.m-w.com
lust: "usually intense or unbridled sexual desire" - www.m-w.com
onslaught: "an especially fierce attack" - www.m-w.com
relentless: "showing or promising no abatement of severity, intensity, strength, or pace" - www.m-w.com
feral: "of, relating to, or suggestive of a wild beast" - www.m-w.com
sycophant: "a servile self-seeking flatterer" - www.m-w.com
servile: "of or befitting a slave or a menial position" - www.m-w.com
malevolent: "having, showing, or arising from intense often vicious ill will, spite, or hatred" - www.m-w.com
nadir: "the lowest point" - www.m-w.com
conspire: "to act in harmony toward a common end" - www.m-w.com
irrepressible: "impossible to repress, restrain, or control" - www.m-w.com
obstreperous: "stubbornly resistant to control" - www.m-w.com
amok: "possessed with or motivated by a murderous or violently uncontrollable frenzy" - www.m-w.com
ostentatious: "marked by or fond of conspicuous or vainglorious and sometimes pretentious display" - www.m-w.com
malice: "1 : desire to cause pain, injury, or distress to another" - www.m-w.com
specious: 2 : "having deceptive attraction or allure" 3 : "having a false look of truth or genuineness" - www.m-w.com
callipygian: "having shapely buttocks" - www.m-w.com
cynical: "contemptuously distrustful of human nature and motives" - www.m-w.com
pantheism: "the belief that god is the universe and the universe is god -- or, more generally, that the universe is divine. It is most often explained as having the feeling that existence has a divine or awe-inspiring aspect." - wikipedia:neopaganism
nihilism: belief in nothing
unrequited: "not requited : not reciprocated or returned in kind" - www.m-w.com
pernicious: "1 : highly injurious or destructive : DEADLY" - www.m-w.com, pernicious: deadly; destructive; exceedingly harmful. - http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/archive/2009/05/18.html
poetry: "2 : writing that formulates a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience in language chosen and arranged to create a specific emotional response through meaning, sound, and rhythm" - www.m-w.com
synchronicity: "2 : the coincidental occurrence of events and especially psychic events (as similar thoughts in widely separated persons or a mental image of an unexpected event before it happens) that seem related but are not explained by conventional mechanisms of causality -- used especially in the psychology of C. G. Jung" - www.m-w.com
zealot: "one absorbed in devotion to anything" - Webster 1913
myopia: "2 : a lack of foresight or discernment : a narrow view of something"
anathema: "someone or something intensely disliked or loathed" - www.m-w.com
masticate: "to soften or reduce to pulp by crushing or kneading" - www.m-w.com
sardonic: "disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking" - www.m-w.com
kneepit: "The foldy part behind the front of your knee." - pinkee
flog: "to beat with or as if with a rod or whip" - www.m-w.com
infidel: a non-believer
conceit: "excessive appreciation of one's own worth or virtue" - Webster's
cower: to shrink away in fear
laminar flow: "When fluid flows smoothly without vortices or other turbulence" - Phenomena Cross Reference
"lament: To express sorrow or regret." - dictionary.com
"malaise: a vague sense of mental or moral ill-being" - Webster's
"The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament." - Dr. Evil, Austin Powers
requiem: music in honor of the dead
superfluous: "exceeding what is sufficient or necessary" - Webster's
nipular: Having to do with nipples.
First heard used by James Brockman,2001-07-27 11:08:49 PST, on rec.arts.bodyart.
aberrant: having, or based on, non-standard ethics
bloodlust: an overwhelming desire to draw blood
entendre: "a word or expression capable of two interpretations with one usually risque" - Webster's

<pinkee> cuz right now all my system is doing is pissing me off
* pinkee spanks her box
<pinkee> whoops missed that double entrende
* pinkee blushes
vacillate: Extreme emotional cycling.
Nephilim: Fallen Angels
iconoclast: A destroyer of icons / religious symbols, "1: one who destroys religious images or opposes their veneration 2: one who attacks settled beliefs or institutions" - Webster's
sublimation: The process which dry ice goes through when it changes state from solid directly to gas, instead of first melting into a liquid.
misanthropy: "a hatred or distrust of mankind" - Webster's
Blanket party: "consists of a sleeping soldier, a blanket to hold him down, a towel to keep him quiet, and a room full of angry recruits to physically punish the offending soldier."
scrimshaw: "any of various carved or engraved articles made orig. by American whalers usually from baleen or whale ivory" - Webster's
cruciform: "forming or arranged in a cross" - Webster's - as in a cruciform bayonet
wanderlust: "strong longing for or impulse toward wandering" - Webster's
immolate: to sacrifice by fire
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