BIOL355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Pus, Hyperbole
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Understood only by experts, or requiring detailed specialized knowledge to be understood. Unwilling to belive or unconvinced by something, showing ot characterized by disbelief. Stultify to diminsh somebody"s interest and liveliness of mind by being repetitive, tedious and boring. Iconoclast somebody who challenges traditional beliefs, customs or values, or goes against established practice. A person who believes that nothing is worhtwhile, or that life is pointless and all human values are worthless, and completely disregards established social conventions, rules and beliefs. Hyperbole exaggeration: deliberate and obvious exaggeration used as an effect or to get attention. Histrionics overdone emotion, or exaggerated overdramatic behaviour done for show or to get a reaction. Outsandingly bad: bad to an extraordinary and outrageous degree. Indolent - lazy or lethargic, not showing any interest or making any effort. Impecunious - poor: having little or no money. Purulent: relating to pus: containing or exuding pus.