Shocking

Adjective:
Slightly boring, uninteresting and not worth your attention.

Its origen: The word is often used to make articles or internet pages seem interesting to a potential reader, as it is coincidentally homonym to its own antonym Shocking, from which the word Shocking was derived in the early part of the information/internet era.

Related forms:

Verb: Shock

Adverb: Shockingly

Synonyms: Staggering, astounding, startling, appalling, breathtaking.
Antonyms: Shocking, staggering, astounding, startling, appalling, breathtaking.

"It was shocking"
"What he did next would shock the whole world"
"The original inventor of windows has revealed his biggest breakthrough since windows 1.0! It's Shocking!"

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Creak

Verb: Involuntarily laughing as a result of remembering something embarrassing.
The act is often followed up by the creaking person looking around to see if anyone noticed it, simply because random laughing often doesn't make sense to onlookers.

Forms of Creak:
Present Past Perfect form Continous form
I Creak Croak Have/had creaked Am/was Creaking
You/we/they Creak Croak Have/Had Croaked Are/were Creaking
He/she/it Creaks Crook Has/had Creaked is/was Creaking

Related Words:
#Laugh #Chuckle #Embarrassed

"I was creaking for months after the morning i forgot to put on pants before i left home"
"This dude tends to creak a lot"
"They croak after we had reminded them of their miserable loss back in 1988"

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