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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although...
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PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever...
RECOLLECT, v. To recall with additions something not previously known.Source: The...
RASH, adj. Insensible to the value of our advice.Source: The Devil's Dictionary,...
REFERENDUM, n. A law for submission of proposed legislation to a popular vote to learn the nonsensus of public...
RANK, n. Relative elevation in the scale of human worth.Source: The Devil's...
REALLY, adv. Apparently.Source: The Devil's Dictionary, 1911.-- Ambrose...
REPUBLIC, n. A nation in which, the thing governing and the thing governed being the same, there is only a permitted...
RHADOMANCER, n. One who uses a divining-rod in prospecting for precious metals in the pocket of a...
ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and...
REVOLUTION, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. . . . the substitution of the rule of an...
TRUTH, n. An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance. Discovery of truth is the sole purpose of philosophy,...
SCRIBBLER, n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one's own. More about this quote...
SCEPTER, n. A king's staff of office, the sign and symbol of his authority. It was originally a mace with which the...
SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean...
UXORIOUSNESS, n. A perverted affection that has strayed to one's own wife.Source:...
ZENITH, n. The point in the heavens directly overhead to a man standing or a growing cabbage. A man in bed or a...
WHEAT, n. A cereal from which a tolerably good whisky can be made; . . . also for bread. The French are said to eat...
NOMINATE, v. To designate for the heaviest political assessment. To put forward a suitable person to incur the...
OMEN, n. A sign that something will happen if nothing happens.Source: The Devil's...
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