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Do you still come across new words in your reading?
For me, sometimes they are words that i have more or less understood, but finally looked up for a precise meaning...
i always understood CK's phrase "going pear shaped" , and never questioned it. but i never heard it, or saw it in print till he wrote it..but i didn't ask him exactly what it meant either.. i just let it slide..
I though maybe this week we could each add one or two (or more!) of the new words we have come across in the past week (month? year?)
ecdysis--
and when i looked it up, i found ecdysist! --I bet half the people coming to a Wordapalooza wouldn't mind it we had an ecdysist there!
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philumentis-- when philander came up, i though about philadelphia, and the oricle at delphi, and wondered what that had to do with brotherly love.. but i was all wrong.. its phila + adelphos (which is brotherly..) delphi is not defined, and seems to be just a homonym! and then on the same page found philumentis, and being helio centric, was amazed to find a word just for my lovers! NOT!
but Helen is 'light" (coming from the sam root as Helio, (sun) but is most definately not "sunny" !) various dictionaries have related it to lighthouse, or lamps, bright light.. and someone who loves illumenations, or light-- surely, it means they love me!
i have some others.. do you have any?
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I looked up ecdysis - it said especially of snakes and caterpillars. Hmmm!
If, however, it were applicable to your mooted gathering (is that tautology?) of wordaholics I bet they wouldn't be too happy to see anything culiciform.
Found culiciform in the educational text on an exhibit in a small town museum last month.
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yes but an ecdysist is more commonly called a strip tease!
ecdysis is a process, an ecdysist is practisioner!
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yes but an ecdysist is more commonly called a strip tease!
Stripping it down to the bare essentials - I've always seen that word rendered as "ecdysiast", meaning stripper, or more eloquently strip-tease artist
Is there a difference between suffix -ist and -iast?
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AHD defines ecdysis as " The shedding of an outer integument or layer of skin, as by insects, crustaceans, and snakes; molting." Then follows with ecdysiast as " A striptease artist. From ecdysis" Is there a difference between suffix -ist and -iast?Now, if we could just find an ecdysiast and ask them! I wonder if one is feminine and one is masculine? In that case, send the masculine one to Wordapalooza! Right ladies?! 
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[brushing up on my act -e]
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[brushing up on my act -e]
Sorry Keiva. WE WANT GEOFF!
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[brushing up on my act -e]Must ........ resist ........ temptation. 
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WE WANT GEOFF!
I thought all you ladies wanted Bingley. Y'all are insatiable.
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thought all you ladies wanted Bingley.
Him too!
Y'all are insatiable.
You just figured that out??????
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