NIN words you should know...


• Ambivalence:[n] Uncerntainty or fluctuation, especially when caused by inability to make a choice or by a simultaneous desire to say or do two opposite things.


• Cacophony: [n] 1. harsh or discordant sound; dissonance 2. specifically- harshness in the sound of words or phrases.


• Catharsis: [n] 1. The purging of the emotions or relieving of emotional tensions, especially through a work of art, as of tragedy or music. 2. A discharge of repressed or pent-up emotions resulting in the alleviation of symptoms or the elimination of the condition.


• Complaisant: [adj] 1. Marked by an inclination to please or oblige. 2. Tending to consent to others' wishes.


• Disparate: [adj] Distinct in kind; essentially different; dissimilar; unlike.


• Dissonance: [n] 1. Inharmonious or harsh sound; discord; cacophony. 2. An unresolved, discordant musical chord or interval. 3. Lack of harmony or agreement; incongruity.


• Heresy: [n] 1. Religious opinion or doctrine at variance with the orthodox or accepted doctrine. 2. Any belief or theory that is strongly at variance with established beliefs, customs, etc.


• Industrial: [adj] Of or pertaining to a type of rock music characterized by heavy dissonant pounding.


• Nihilism: [n] 1. The belief that all existence is senseless and that there is no possibility of an objective basis for truth. 2. Nothingness or nonexistence.


• Phallic: [adj] Of, pertaining to, or resembling a penis.



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