Dictionary for Fun. Boris Revchoun.

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DEFINITE not vague or doubtful, but clearly stated to be understood properly. If everything was clear and understandable, life would be dull and prosaic. DEGREES OF COMPARISON mean greater or the greatest amounts of a quality of something. Upon closer inspection, someone else’s better becomes worse than something good of our own. In spite of such daily discoveries we keep searching for the best until the end of our lives. DEMAND an insistent and imperative request or need. Demands lose their modesty as soon as they are being met. DENOMINATION in theology, a certain religion pretending to be the best provider of God. DEPRESSION a lengthy period during which a person has the feeling of unhappiness up to the inclination to commit suicide. If while watching a horror movie you find yourself sympathizing with a maniac, you should consult a psychiatrist about possible depression. DESTINY everything that happens to a person during his life as well as in the future. Everyone is the blacksmith of his own destiny until the latter puts him on its anvil. DIALECTICS the theory about the ever-moving changing phenomena of nature and society, and about the transition from quantity to quality. According to this scientific method: 1) one can not step twice into the same river, though he may easily dip into the same shit as many times as necessary; 2) one more drink may ensure the transition from uncertainty to cocksureness. DIALOGUE conversation between two or more persons. Women’s dialogue is usually a motley conglomeration of monologues. DICTATE 1.say or read aloud to someone thoughts or instructions to be written down; 2. make the other person unreservedly do as someone wishes. Some bosses when marrying their secretaries continue to mistakenly believe that they will keep dictating. DICTATOR a ruler who loses power together with his life. DIFFERENCE a point or way of seeing someone or something as different from others. What distinguishes women from men? A woman is always able, but not always does she want, while a man is quite opposite.

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