damonparker.org » Dictionary http://damonparker.org code / ecommerce / life Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:33:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-RC3 Blattodephobia http://damonparker.org/blog/2007/09/10/blattodephobia/ http://damonparker.org/blog/2007/09/10/blattodephobia/#comments Mon, 10 Sep 2007 05:55:30 +0000 damonp http://damonparker.org/blog/2007/09/10/blattodephobia/

n. The fear of cockroaches

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adj. characterized by or causing diminution or curtailment;
“their views of life were reductive and depreciabory” – R.H.Rovere

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n.
A manner of personal conduct; behavior.

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  • a person who engages in somnambulism (sleepwalking)
  • a term used in hypnosis to indicate someone of high enough suggestibility to follow suggestions without the need for a formal trance
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Hegemony is the dominance of one group over other groups, with or without the threat of force, to the extent that, for instance, the dominant party can dictate the terms of trade to its advantage; more broadly, cultural perspectives become skewed to favor the dominant group. Hegemony controls the ways that ideas become “naturalized” in a process that informs notions of common sense.

Wikipedia: Hegemony

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An agonist is a substance that binds to a receptor and triggers a response in the cell. An agonist is the opposite of an antagonist in the sense that while an antagonist also binds to the receptor, the antagonist fails to activate the receptor and actually blocks it from activation by agonists.

Wikipedia: Agonist

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A pandemic (from Greek pan all + demos people) is an epidemic (an outbreak of an infectious disease) that spreads worldwide, or at least across a large region.

Wikipedia: Pandemic

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A biological term which refers to the ability to move spontaneously and independently

Wikipedia: Motility

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to pander

  1. To offer illicit sex with a third party; to pimp.
  2. To tempt, usually by appealing to improper motivators such as religious bias or racist opinions.
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adj.

  1. Walking about or from place to place; traveling on foot.
  2. Peripatetic Of or relating to the philosophy or teaching methods of Aristotle, who conducted discussions while walking about in the Lyceum of ancient Athens.

n.

  1. One who walks from place to place; an itinerant.
  2. Peripatetic A follower of the philosophy of Aristotle; an Aristotelian.
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