Stop pausing in a conversation to define a word she thought he didn't know.

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Let me first define the word optimism and what it means to classify oneself as an optimist.

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Webster is unable to define either word without the other.

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Yet, Mr Bellos says, the concept of a word itself is almost impossible to define.

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But the statute doesn't define "provokes, " and that ambiguous word may hold the key to the outcome of this tragic case.

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There have been a couple of previous attempts to define and propagate Fauxhemia(n), notably by Urban Dictionary, which specifically attached the word to a place where trendiness hides the high rents and trust funds.

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