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Religious folks have words for such spasmodic departures from the everyday, like beatitude, nirvana, ecstasy.

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Hoover-style service resumed, in other words, with a new target even more universally reviled than Red infiltrators.

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Pyongyang uses harsh words such as "human scum" to describe citizens who have escaped.

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Some had the word “oats” painted on their faces.

When the word first became popular on Chinese social media in 2020, it was mostly used by young people in China to describe the grind of education and work.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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