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Message started by raydawg on 03/01/18 at 19:36:07

Title: It pays to increases your word power
Post by raydawg on 03/01/18 at 19:36:07

ob·ses·sive
[ uhb- ses-iv]

ADJECTIVE
1.
being, pertaining to, or resembling an obsession: an obsessive fear of illness.
2.
causing an obsession.
3.
excessive, especially extremely so.
NOUN
4.
someone who has an obsession or obsessions; a person who thinks or behaves in an obsessive manner.

fix·ate
[ fik-seyt]

VERB (USED WITH OBJECT) [FIX·AT·ED, FIX·AT·ING.]
1.
to fix; make stable or stationary.
VERB (USED WITHOUT OBJECT) [FIX·AT·ED, FIX·AT·ING.]
2.
to become fixed.
3.
Psychoanalysis. to develop a fixation; suffer an arrest in one's emotional or sexual development.

delusional
[dih-loo-zhuh-nl]

adjective
1.
having false or unrealistic beliefs or opinions:
Senators who think they will get agreement on a comprehensive tax bill are delusional.
2.
Psychiatry. maintaining fixed false beliefs even when confronted with facts, usually as a result of mental illness:
He was so delusional and paranoid that he thought everybody was conspiring against him.

in·tol·er·ant
[in- tol-er- uhnt]

ADJECTIVE
1.
not tolerating or respecting beliefs, opinions, usages, manners, etc., different from one's own, as in political or religious matters; bigoted.
2.
unable or unwilling to tolerate or endure (usually followed by of): intolerant of very hot weather.
3.
unable to fully digest or absorb a specified food or drug (used postpositively or in combination): lactose intolerant; aspirin-intolerant.
NOUN
4.
an intolerant person; bigot.

mir·ror
[ mir-er]

NOUN
1.
a reflecting surface, originally of polished metal but now usually of glass with a silvery, metallic, or amalgam backing.
2.
such a surface set into a frame, attached to a handle, etc., for use in viewing oneself or as an ornament.
3.
any reflecting surface, as the surface of calm water under certain lighting conditions.
4.
Optics. a surface that is either plane, concave, or convex and that reflects rays of light.
5.
something that gives a minutely faithful representation, image, or idea of something else: Gershwin's music was a mirror of its time.