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freak
noun as in something, someone very abnormal
noun as in quirk, whim
noun as in person enthused about something
Example Sentences
I’m a freak for sandwiches and they pretty much only sell sandwiches.
“People are pretty freaked out,” said Savage, who works at the Surfrider Foundation.
There was the virality of it all, of course: “Nasty” birthed memes to match your freak, a new rhetorical question — mantra, really — for a generation of people daring someone to meet them at their level.
We can, however, say that being a freak is not the same as being an eccentric or an oddball.
It’s saying, “Oh, yay, I get to flunk another math test this week,” when what you mean is that you are freaked out about your consistently terrible grades in math class.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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