Head and Ignorance

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Head noun - The upper or front part of the body that contains the brain, the major sense organs, and the mouth.

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Ignorance is an antonym for head in topics: ability, front, leader, turning point, top part.

Nearby Words: heading, headland, headship, headband, headed

Ignorance noun - The state of being unaware or uninformed.

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Head is an antonym for ignorance.

Nearby Words: ignore, ignorant, ignored, ignoring

human	human head	human ignorance
complete	complete head	complete ignorance
true	true head	true ignorance
actual	actual head	actual ignorance
Other adjectives: massive, previous.

When he runs into Ernie the Giant Chicken, competitor in the Running Gag epic fights, his ignorance of their history infuriates the poultry, causing him to repeatedly strike Peter in the head.

Source: Injury Bookend
Gretel feigns ignorance, causing the exasperated witch to stick her own head in the oven to show Gretel how it is done... and she is inevitably subjected to the same fate she had planned for the two siblings.

Source: Hoist By His Own Petard / Fairy Tales
For those who don't (either out of ignorance or having better things to do with their time), here's what happened: Very shortly after being dismissed as the head coach at Penn State due to the Sandusky scandal, Joe Paterno died.

Source: Funny Aneurysm Moment / Comedy

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