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1. pessimistic or gloomy
2. beat someone up
3. a stupid person
4. search the Internet for instances of one's own name or links to one's own website
5. a glamorous, powerfully assertive woman
6. a person who is not conversant with a particular activity or skill
7. a large office divided into cubicles for individual workers
8. a style of rock music resembling punk
9. the practice of engaging in multiple sexual relationships with the knowledge and consent of all the people involved
10. sexually attractive
11. a person's soulmate or ideal partner
12. an uproar or disturbance
Answers provided later!
A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
I got (written down on a piece of paper before I scrolled this far through the thread...) # 1 to 7, 9 & 10. I thought that 'emo' might be #8, and couldn't decide how to assign 'bangarang' & 'bashert' to # 8 & 12.