Empathize vs Sympathize

Empathize is often used interchangeably with sympathize, but you'll get no empathy (or sympathy) from usage experts if you confuse the two. When you sympathize with another person, you feel sad that she is suffering, but you don't necessarily relate to her experience. It's easiest to empathize when you've been through a similar experience; for example, if your pet guppy had recently passed away, your friend's hermit crab story would have broken your heart due to empathy.

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Ombudsman

Get to ombudsman in any company, that's where you can fight for your rights.

Decapitated

Michael's boss has been decapitated. The Office S3.04

Being Spontaneous

The Truman Show - Being Spontaneous (1998)



Spontaneous
proceeding from natural feeling or native tendency without external constraint
produced without being planted or without human labor : indigenous

Suffocate

Big Bang Theory Series 4 Episode 5

Sheldon: Of course. Would you like to join me for Chinese food?

Amy: Sheldon, please, you’re suffocating me.

Sheldon: My apologies. Good night, Amy.

Amy: Good night, Sheldon.

suffocating  present participle of suf·fo·cate (Verb)

Verb

Die or cause to die from lack of air or inability to breathe.

Have or cause to have difficulty in breathing.

Fluke

Unlikely chance occurrence, esp. a surprising piece of luck: "their triumph was no fluke".
In particle physics, three sigma counts as "evidence". Claiming a discovery requires a statistical certainty of five sigma - which denotes a one in a million chance that any given result is a fluke.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18677808

Reckon

Spain’s problem is one of misdiagnosis. Its government and European officials reckon the main challenge is fiscal.
reck·on/ˈrekən/ Verb:

Establish by counting or calculation; calculate. Include in (a class or group): "he was reckoned among the brainiest".

Synonyms: calculate - count - think - compute - figure - consider

Willow Warbler

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willow_Warbler

Willow Warbler is a kind of bird. I have heard its name in one British TV shows called Keeping Up Appearances.
The actress (Hyacinth Bucket) was trying to take others attention away from a scene happening by saying she saw a willow warbler.

Book Value - Ignominious

Research In Motion has today crossed a new, ignominious threshold — trading below book value. Typically, when a company’s stock price trades below book value, it’s an indicator investors see the company’s individual assets as more valuable broken up than as part of the company.

Wildebeest

The wildebeest (plural wildebeest, wildebeests or wildebai), also called the gnu is anantelope of the genus Connochaetes. It is a hooved (ungulate) mammal. Wildebeest is Dutch for "wild beast" or "wild cattle" in Afrikaans(beest = cattle), while Connochaetes derives from the Greek words konnos ("beard") and khaite ("flowing hair").

Connochaetes includes two species, both native to Africa: the black wildebeest, or white-tailed gnu (C. gnou), and the blue wildebeest, or brindled gnu (C. taurinus). Gnus belong to the family Bovidae, which includes antelopes, cattle, goats, and other even-toed horned ungulates.