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disc jockey
person who plays recorded music for an audience
Scotia Sea
sea
psycholinguistics
Psycholinguistics or psychology of language is the study of the interrelation between linguistic factors and psychological aspects. The discipline is mainly concerned with the mechanisms by which language is processed and represented in the mind and brain; that is, the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend, and produce language.

audiobook
An audiobook (or a talking book) is a recording of a book or other work being read out loud. A reading of the complete text is described as "unabridged", while readings of shorter versions are abridgements.
Little Ice Age
period of cooling that occurred after the Medieval Warm Period, usually defined as between the 14th (or the 16th) to the 19th centuries

tehina
Tahini (; , or, in Iraq, ) is a Middle Eastern condiment (a seed butter) made from ground sesame seeds. The most common variety comes from hulled seeds, but unhulled ones can also be used; the latter variety is slightly bitter, but more nutritious. The seeds are more commonly roasted than raw. Tahini can be served by itself (as a dip), made into a salad dressing, or used as a major ingredient in hummus, baba ghanoush, or halva.
scorched earth
military strategy

Beringia
thumb|upright=1.6|alt=Image of the Bering land bridge being inundated with rising sea level across time|Beringia sea levels (blues) and land elevations (browns) measured in metres from 21,000 years ago to present
American Dream
ethos of the United States
Russian roulette
risk taking game of chance in which a player places a single round in a revolver, spins the cylinder, places the muzzle against a person and pulls the trigger

woke
thumb|alt=Congresswoman Marcia fudge at an outdoor gathering holding a T-shirt in front of her which reads "Stay Woke" followed by a tick mark inside a box and the word "Vote"|U.S. Congresswoman Marcia Fudge in 2018
Simpson Desert
desert in Central Australia
Ubaid period
archaeological culture

machismo
Machismo (; ; ; ) is the sense of being "manly" and self-reliant, a concept associated with "a strong sense of masculine pride: an exaggerated masculinity". Machismo is a term originating in the early 1940s and 1950s and its use became more widespread in popular culture in the 60s. While the term is associated with "a man's responsibility to provide for, protect, and defend his family", machismo is strongly and consistently associated with dominance, aggression, grandstanding, and an inability to nurture. Machismo is found to be deeply rooted in family dynamics and a Hypermasculinity culture i
law of Jante
idea that there is a pattern of group behaviour towards individuals within Scandinavian communities that negatively portrays individual success and achievement
Uruk period
archaeological culture
white-collar worker
social class; person who performs intellectual labor
ethnicity
An ethnicity or ethnic group is a group of humans who identify with each other on the basis of perceived shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups. Attributes that ethnicities believe to share include language, culture, common sets of ancestry, traditions, society, religion, history, or social treatment. Ethnicities are maintained through long-term endogamy and may have a narrow or broad spectrum of genetic ancestry, with some groups having mixed genetic ancestry. Ethnicity is sometimes used interchangeably with nation, particularly in cases of ethnic nationalism. It is also us

cliffhanger
thumb|The 1914 film serial The Perils of Pauline (1914 serial)|Perils of Pauline was shown in bi-weekly installments and ended with a cliffhanger.
A cliffhanger or cliffhanger ending is a plot device in fiction which features a main character in a precarious situation, facing a difficult dilemma or confronted with a shocking revelation at the end of an episode of serialized fiction or before a commercial break in a television programme. A cliffhanger is intended to incentivize the audience to return to see how the characters resolve the dilemma, or to provide a mysterious or thought provoking
popular front
Political coalition proposed by the international communist movement following a shift away from the social fascism theory, involving liberal and social democratic forces
white-collar crime
financially motivated nonviolent crime committed by business and government professionals
Jemdet Nasr period
archaeological culture of Mesopotamia
trickle-down economics
economic theory
Elliott wave principle
method of market analysis
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch
popular adage communicating the idea that it is impossible to get something for nothing
rat race
metaphor referring to an endless, self-defeating, or pointless pursuit

henge
thumb|right|The three aligned henges of the Thornborough Henges complex
A henge can be one of three related types of Neolithic earthwork. The essential characteristic of all three is that they feature a ring-shaped bank and ditch, with the ditch inside the bank. Because the internal ditches would have served defensive purposes poorly, henges are not considered to have been defensive constructions (cf. circular rampart).
sabra
Hebrew term for a Palestinian- and Egyptian-originated Israeli-Jewish person.

payola
thumb|Alan Freed was a notable disc jockey convicted of accepting payola bribes.
Whig history
Historiographical school of thought

babysitting
thumb|right|230px|1895 painting of a nurse reading to a little girl
right|thumb|An episode of About Safety, a 1970s educational children's show, on the topic of babysitting
Dictablanda
is a dictatorship in which civil liberties are allegedly preserved rather than destroyed, and authoritarian and democratic features are combined. is a pun on ("dictatorship") replacing , which by itself is a Spanish word meaning "hard", with , meaning "soft".
cherubism
Cherubism is a rare genetic disorder that causes prominence in the lower portion in the face. The name is derived from the temporary chubby-cheeked resemblance to putti, the chubby-faced infants featured in Renaissance paintings, which were often mistakenly described as cherubim.
Woodland period
period of North American pre-Columbian cultures
urban revolution
process by which villages transform into urban societies

Biomorphism
thumb|Biomorphic branching columns in Antoni Gaudí|Gaudí's monumental but still incomplete [[Sagrada Família church are modelled on trees.]]

Degenerated workers' state
trotskyist view of state socialist bureaucracy, particularly under Stalin
Identification with the Aggressor
Concept in psychoanalysis
asshole
The word asshole (in North American English) or arsehole (in all other major varieties of the English language) is a vulgarism used to describe the anus, and often used pejoratively (as a type of synecdoche) to refer to people.
better dead than red
Cold War slogan
capsule wardrobe
Walter Mitty
protagonist of a James Thurber short story
career woman
woman whose main priority in life is achieving success in her career or profession
barefoot and pregnant
phrase promoting the housewifery of women
Homintern
REDIRECT Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric#Homintern
Jacobethan
thumb|Anthony Salvin's [[Harlaxton Manor, 1837–1855, is an embodiment of Jacobethan architecture]]
The Jacobethan ( ) architectural style, also known as Jacobean Revival, is the mixed national Renaissance revival style that was made popular in England from the late 1820s, which derived most of its inspiration and its repertory from the English Renaissance (1550–1625), with elements of Elizabethan and Jacobean.
thumb|Highclere Castle, known from the [[Downton Abbey television series, is an example of Jacobethan style]]