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Euphemism

A mild or indirect word or expression that is sustituted for one that is considered to be more harsh or blunt.

☀️😈Heeaatt ooff the Hoement😈☀️

@willsofleo.blacksky.app

"My fries were tryin' to fall out ma' box," could be a good euphemism...idk what for though 💀💀💀

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Juncture

1. a particular point or event in time; point (in time); moment (in time); 2. a place where things join

Spencer Thomas

@spencer-thomas.bsky.social

One of the tiny silver linings of gerontocracy is that it is, to a point and at a particular juncture, inherently time-limited. The flipside is that too many of its monsters are able to run out the clock

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Exacerbate

to make something worse; to make something more severe (often used in reference to feelings, illness or disease)

C.T. Idlehouse/LadyChelseaoftheVoid 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🇺🇦🇲🇽🇵🇸

@ladychelsea.bsky.social

remember when the "both sides are bad" people protested the #Palestiniangenocide, but then chose not to vote, which paved the way for the #worstpossibleperson ever to continue and exacerbate the #genocide and cause other genocides to begin?

I haven't forgotten

#2024election #trump

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Opaque

not able to be seen through; not transparent; impenetrable to light hard to understand; not clear

95bFM now playing 🎶

@95nowplaying.bsky.social

the pink opaque - glow
Saturday Afternoon with Sarah
2026-09-19 15:09 NZST

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Beguile

charm or enchant (someone), sometimes in a deceptive way

Robb Edwards 🌱

@robedwards1.bsky.social

Beguiling Bougainville Monkey-faced #Bats 🦇✨ are #endangered from #palmoil #deforestation in #PapuaNewGuinea and the Solomon Islands. Fight for them and #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife when you shop! @palmoildetect.bsky.social
https://youtu.be/leqBZY0eJ_s

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Empirical

based on or concerned with observation and experience (rather than just a theory); experiential; hands-on

Psychology Briefly

@psychologybriefly.bsky.social

A priori philosophy that ignores empirical evidence fails to advance knowledge; philosophy should merge with science to produce evidence-based truth.

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Dissonance

1. a state of disagreement or conflict 2. a harsh, discordant combination of sounds; a lack of harmony among musical notes Note: Cognitive dissonance is defined as "the state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change."

🌙LUNA 🖤🪻

@lavendergay.bsky.social

Yall the swiftie theorists are stretching the cognitive dissonance to breakable levels…. We are in the blender. And it is being loaded with sugar

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Anachronism

A thing belonging to a period other than that in which it exists (especially something that is conspicuously old-fashioned)

gkiltzva

@gkiltzva.bsky.social

The tie has been an anachronism we are better off without for the last 60 years at least

Like the British Navy's rum ration it has no place in the modern world

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/sep/18/is-the-tie-dead-fashion-connoisseurs-house-of-lords-relaxes-rules

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Leery

to be cautious or wary due to some realistic suspicions you have; guarded; wary; careful

The Marshall Project

@themarshallproject.org

Flush with money and leery of bad publicity, ICE has banked on local police agencies to help ramp up immigration arrests. www.themarshallproject.org/2026/09/10/i...

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Catholic

including a wide variety of things; all-embracing

George Wiman

@georgewiman.bsky.social

Glad to see it, though the people principally responsible believe they should tell the pope how to do Catholicism https://catholiconline.news/science/vatican-theologians-warn-environmental-destruction-can-be-a-sin-against-god/

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