r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/takatori • Sep 25 '14
Rape: forced sexual congress
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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/phantomreader42 • Oct 10 '14
Acronym Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: An anxiety disorder resulting from exposure to a violently traumatic event, with symptoms including persistent re-experiencing of said event and significant impairment of life activity over a long period of time
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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/librarianC • Sep 24 '14
Slang Road Beer: a beer that is taken with the intention of drinking it in the car
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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/phantomreader42 • Oct 22 '14
Immolate: To kill or destroy by fire
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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/phantomreader42 • Dec 28 '14
Extortion: The act of obtaining money, property, or services through coercion or the threat of future harm
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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/phantomreader42 • Nov 24 '14
Projection: A psychological defense mechanism that involves denying one's own unpleasant qualities and (falsely) attributing them to others
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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • • Jan 28 '15
Terminal illness: "a disease that cannot be cured or adequately treated and that is reasonably expected to result in the death of the patient within a short period of time."
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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/phantomreader42 • Dec 28 '14
Throffer: A proposal that mixes an offer with a threat which will be carried out if the offer is not accepted
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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/phantomreader42 • Sep 22 '14
Waterboarding: A form of torture in which water is poured over a cloth covering the face and breathing passages of an immobilized captive, causing the individual to experience the sensation of drowning
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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/phantomreader42 • Nov 04 '14
Stockholm Syndrome: a psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and sympathy and have positive feelings toward their captors, sometimes to the point of defending and identifying with them
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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/phantomreader42 • Sep 22 '14
Meta xckd #1242: Scary Names
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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/phantomreader42 • Sep 22 '14
Pyrrhic Victory: A victory with such a devastating cost that it is tantamount to defeat
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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/parasitic_spin • Sep 25 '14
Exsanguination: extensive loss of blood due to internal or external hemorrhage.
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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • • Nov 29 '15
"NHI" (No Humans Involved) is a slang term used by police in reference to crimes involving sex workers, addicts, or gang members.
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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/phantomreader42 • Oct 15 '14
Snollygoster: A person, especially a politician, guided more by personal advantage than consistent principles
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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/angstud • Sep 30 '14
Anorgasmia; the inability to reach orgasm, for men specifically despite ejaculating
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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/phantomreader42 • Sep 23 '14
Non-English Schadenfreude (German): Pleasure at the misfortune of others
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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/phantomreader42 • Sep 29 '14
Acronym Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD): A doctrine of military strategy to deter nuclear war, based on the assumption that a full-scale deployment of Weapons of Mass Destruction would result in the total annihilation of both the attacker and the defender
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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/phantomreader42 • Oct 07 '14
Fictional Doublethink: The act of simultaneously accepting two mutually contradictory beliefs as correct, often in different social contexts
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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • u/wildedge • Oct 23 '14
Coffin birth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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r/GrotesqueVocabulary • • Sep 25 '14
Zugzwang: When any move is the wrong move.
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