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Glorifry

Glorifying something which in reality harms the members of society.
To the detriment of society war is glorified by Hollywood and the media, but its glorification and "gorycealment" (concealing the bloody parts of violence) also helps ensure that sufficient young taxpayers will enlist in the armed forces to protect the nation from or allow Americans to react to, for example, the asinine invasion of Pearl Harbor in 1941, or other types of attacks individuals tend to find adjectives for. "Was it rational to attack the Japanese for invading Pearl Harbor," the professor asked. A student replied that if the U.S. hadn't attacked Japan, that empire would have grown stronger and as far away as the U.S. is from Japan, like the United Kingdom took back the Malvina Islands, Japan could have successfully invaded and conquered the U.S. So to imposibilize that, President Roosevelt did the correct thing by retaliating and inserting the U.S. into WWII. Some individuals suspect that glorifying war is an act of glorifrycation. So much for glorifry.
by but for October 25, 2017
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Easyfication

Though almost everyone mistakenly believes that learning to write is as difficult as learning to play a musical instrument, inspired by Frederick Taylor's Scientific Management principles, Richard Casey and Charles Cox began its easyfication in a social media group and where volunteers teach students the "one best way" to learn to give a writing a title, write an introductory clause, add a comma, add a semicolon, and perform the other 555 writing techniques he has systematized. Go Richard!
by but for March 19, 2020
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word therapy

Healing oneself by working with words and letting them order and clarify the way one feels, thinks, and acts.
After a major television network offered to interview me, but then cancel the interview, that series of events first raised but then lowered my self-concept, confused me, made me feel powerless—even helpless, but not hopeless.

Soon after I started to edit the index of a book I'm writing, I began to feel increasingly better.

Working with words balanced my emotions and allowed me to feel, think, and act correctly again. I call that word therapy.
by but for March 8, 2018
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three-dimensionalize

The act of making a (basic or complex) shape three-dimensional.
Chuck realized that a tube or cylinder was merely a three-dimensionalized circle.

The sculptor, then the animator, three-dimensionalized a drawing.
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impossibleize

President Roosevelt declared war on the Japanese Empire to impossibleize—as improbable as it seemed to most observers—it's growing stronger, invading, conquering, and occupying the United States of America. Remember, "a stitch in time saves mine, meaning my ass," said a young taxpayer, and "it's better to be safe than sorry" said a taxcollector to a tax-evader who worked as a stocks and bond trader.
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webscam

Identity theft and websites which advertise their services as being free but charge a fee after the customer signs up are only two examples of webscams.
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cigaretticide

The unintended murder of nonsmokers by the cigarette smoke smoker's cigarettes release in to the air is called "cigaretticide."
In a LIARS COURT comedy titled "Cigaretticide," the unintended murder of nonsmokers by the cigarette smoke smoker's cigarettes release in to the air is called "cigaretticide'. Regardless of what percentage of smokers know that the smoke from the cigarette they smoke goes into the lungs of every person who happens to be around them, the big news is that very few smokers know that the smoke which flows out from the cigarettes they smoke is killing some of the people who happen to be around them.
by but for April 29, 2020
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