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- DictionaryHor·ren·dous/həˈrendəs/
adjective
- 1. extremely unpleasant, horrifying, or terrible: "she suffered horrendous injuries"
1 day ago · Cutoffs with one person may signal a habit of psychic cutoffs, isolations, resentments, contempts, social anxiety, and isolation that extends into other domains. Some people have a "core belief in ...
1 day ago · Socrates’ views on death partly product of long life spent facing fears. Socrates was born to Sophroniscus and Faenarete in Alopece, a deme of Athens. His father was a stone cutter and his mother was a well-known midwife. Socrates continued to live with his family in Alopece, somewhere near the border of today’s Ano Nea Smyrni and Palaio ...
3 days ago · Self-harm is intentional conduct that is considered harmful to oneself. This is most commonly regarded as direct injury of one's own skin tissues usually without a suicidal intention. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Other terms such as cutting, self-injury, and self-mutilation have been used for any self-harming behavior regardless of suicidal intent. [ 2][ 4 ...
1 day ago · Colonial languages brought a paradoxical legacy of harmonization and polarization of intra-African relations. On the one hand, they provided more common means of communication for the many disparate groups on the continent, whereas on the other hand, their imposition also meant that societies that share borders, even some who speak the same local languages, were divided by colonial national ...
1 day ago · v. t. e. In economics, hyperinflation is a very high and typically accelerating inflation. It quickly erodes the real value of the local currency, as the prices of all goods increase. This causes people to minimize their holdings in that currency as they usually switch to more stable foreign currencies. [ 1]
2 days ago · someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior. someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks. a person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods. one who wrongfully or illegally seizes and holds the place of another.
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