NUS Dictionary

Here to define all the words you need to understand NUS.

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DICTIONARY (noun)
1) A book containing the words of a language and their associated definitions.
2) Trot-bait
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FAREWELL (exclaimation)
1) Used to express positive feelings on departure.
2) What I say when this account is going to go dark.
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DONALD TRUMP (human being -citation needed)
1) The President of the United States.
2) A truly awful person in a myriad of ways.
3) Not relevant to student issues in Australia, where he has no power.
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TEN-THOUSAND (numerical quantity)
1) Some.
2) A few.
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CLUSTERFUCK (noun)
1) A disasterously mishandled situation.
2) Pitting "HECs is Not Best" and "HECs is Best" against each other directly.
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HELL (noun)
1) See below;
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Would you rather live with 10 trots for 1 week or 1 trot for 10 weeks? #EdCon18

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ARMS (noun)
1) Weapons, armaments.
2) The instruments of defence.
3) Not recycling.
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IRONY (noun)
1) A state which seems deliberately contradictory to what was expected, but typically without intent.
2) A preachy speaker saying people don't like being preached at.
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STABILITY (noun)
1) A self-maintaining state.
2) In ECONOMICS: A good thing which stops people getting fucked by random chance.
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ACTIVISM (noun)
1) Vigorous campaigning to bring about social change.
2) Generally concluded by lobbying and policy writing.
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HYPOCRISY (noun)
1) The practice of claiming higher morals than you earn.
2) Claiming to be a unionist without joining a union.
3) Claiming to support students while attempting to silence most of their reps.
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TWO-PARTY (compound adjective)
1) A characteristic of systems in which only two groups have a chance of gaining control, like Australia.
2) A system under which failing to support one group effects support of their opponent.
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TANGENT (noun)
1) A completely different line of thought or action to what was intended.
2) Anything SAlt says to any of the speakers.
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HANGOVER (noun)
1) The collective after-effects brought on by excessive consumption of alcohol.
2) Fuck this.
3) Fuck everything.
4) I wish I was dead.
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UNION (noun)
1) An association of individuals with shared interests, used to achieve collective gain.
2) Not thugs.
3) Not necessarily an oppositional group.
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ECONOMICS WITHOUT MATHS (proper noun)
1) An NLS run workshop at EdCon.
2) Not Monash.
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QUESTION (noun)
1) A sentence worded or expressed so as to elicit information.
2) A sentence.
3) Not an essay.
4) A. SENTENCE.
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WHOLESOME (adjective)
1) Conducive to or characterosed by moral wellbeing.
2) That reading story.
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IMPRESSIVE (adjective)
1) Evoking admiration through size, quality or skill.
2) Senator Hanson-Young's presentation.
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SOCIALISM (noun)
1) A system under which the community owns production, characterised by predistribution.
2) An accurate description of the accord.
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INSTABILITY (noun)
1) A state which cannot be passively maintained
2) In Economics: A pre-recession state which disproportionately effects the working class, and which any good Labor government would aleviate.
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