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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist...
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PEDIGREE, n. The known part of the route from an arboreal ancestor with a swim bladder to an urban descendant with a...
PERIPATETIC, adj. Walking about. Relating to the philosophy of Aristotle, who, while expounding it, moved from place...
PIG, n. An animal (Porcus omnivorus) closely allied to the human race by the splendor and vivacity of its appetite,...
PROVIDENTIAL, adj. Unexpectedly and conspicuously beneficial to the person so describing...
PIGMY, n. One of a tribe of very small men found by ancient travelers in many parts of the world, but by modern in...
PRE-EXISTENCE, n. An unnoted factor in creation.Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...
VITUPERATION, n. Saite, as understood by dunces and all such as suffer from an impediment in their...
ENVY, n. Emulation adapted to the meanest capacity.Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...
HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.Source:...
HURRY, n. The dispatch of bunglers.Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.--...
HYENA, n. A beast held in reverence by some oriental nations from its habit of frequenting at night the burial-places...
HUSBAND, n. One who, having dined, is charged with the care of the plate.Source:...
J, n. A consonant in English, but some nations use it as a vowel . . . from a Latin verb, jacere, to throw, because...
LAUGHTER, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It...
LAWFUL, adj. Compatible with the will of a judge having jurisdiction.Source: The...
LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem -- a...
LIBERTY, n. One of Imagination's most precious possessions.Source: The Devil's...
MANNA, n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they...
MAIDEN, n. A young person of the unfair sex. The maiden is not altogether unpleasing to the eye, nor (without her...
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