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Mar 4, 2008
This week's themeLesser-known counterparts of common words This week's words prepone nocebo dystopia inhume prequel Save The Words Many words are almost extinct -- get the book A Word A Day and help preserve them! 
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with Anu Gargnocebo(no-SEE-bo) noun: A substance producing harmful effects in someone because it is believed to be harmful, but which in reality is harmless. [From Latin nocebo (I will harm), from nocere (to harm). Modeled after placebo (I will please).]
"Both groups who received nocebos showed elevated levels of the stress
hormone cortisol in their blood."
X-BonusI would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone. -Dwight D. Eisenhower, US general and 34th president (1890-1969) |
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