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  2. Embarrassment - Wikipedia

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    Personal embarrassment can also stem from the actions of others who place the embarrassed person in a socially awkward situation—such as a parent showing one's baby pictures to friends, having someone make a derogatory comment about one's appearance or behavior, discovering one is the victim of gossip, being rejected by another person (see ...

  3. Profanity - Wikipedia

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    Profanity is often depicted in images by grawlixes, which substitute symbols for words.. Profanity, also known as swearing, cursing, or cussing, involves the use of notionally offensive words for a variety of purposes, including to demonstrate disrespect or negativity, to relieve pain, to express a strong emotion, as a grammatical intensifier or emphasis, or to express informality or ...

  4. What handwriting supposedly says about you - AOL

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    People who write with connected letters are associated with being logical and systematic. Crossing the very top of the 'T' generally means that you have good self-esteem, are optimistic and ambitious.

  5. Cancel culture - Wikipedia

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    [39] [40] According to Lisa Nakamura, University of Michigan professor of media studies, canceling someone is a form of "cultural boycott" and cancel culture is the "ultimate expression of agency", which is "born of a desire for control [as] people have limited power over what is presented to them on social media" and a need for "accountability ...

  6. List of English words with disputed usage - Wikipedia

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    A aggravate – Some have argued that this word should not be used in the sense of "to annoy" or "to oppress", but only to mean "to make worse". According to AHDI, the use of "aggravate" as "annoy" occurs in English as far back as the 17th century. In Latin, from which the word was borrowed, both meanings were used. Sixty-eight percent of AHD4's usage panel approves of its use in "It's the ...

  7. What is aromanticism? Why these aromantics say romance ... - AOL

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    A popular misconception about being aromantic, she adds, is a false notion that they are incapable of loving another human being. “For asexuality, people tend to [think we] have something wrong ...

  8. Mere-exposure effect - Wikipedia

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    The effect has been demonstrated with many kinds of things, including words, Chinese characters, paintings, pictures of faces, geometric figures, and sounds. [1] In studies of interpersonal attraction , the more often people see a person, the more pleasing and likeable they find that person.

  9. Wikipedia:Offensive material

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    For example, editors selecting images for articles like Human body have thousands of images of naked bodies and body parts available to them, but they normally choose images that portray the human body in an unemotional, non-sexual standard anatomical position over more sexual images due to greater relevance to the subject. The more sexual ...