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TIGULAR – A crossbreed found in the Hundred Acre Wood.

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(TIGULAR - gonna have to bounce that around for a while...)
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REFECTION

PRONUNCIATION: (ri-FEK-shuhn)

MEANING: noun:
1. Refreshment with food or drink.
2. A light meal.
3. The reingesting of fecal pellets, as practiced by rabbits.

ETYMOLOGY: Via French from Latin reficere (to renew or restore), from re- (back) + facere (to make). Earliest documented use: 1398.

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REFECTIO - Dumbledore causes a feast to spring forth on the tables at Hogwarts

REFICTION - publishing a Nero Wolfe mystery again but under a different name this time

REFECATION - Number Two, twice (be careful how you say this at your local racetrack betting window)

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RELECTION: What the incumment cannidate strives for.

Yeah, well, I have a fever today.

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FRUSTRANEOUS

PRONUNCIATION: (fruhs-TRAY-nee-uhs)

MEANING: adjective: Useless; unprofitable.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin frustra (in vain). Earliest documented use: 1643.

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FRUSTRANEOUS (the Identity transformation) - instant non-gratification
(alternatively FLUSTRANEOUS - throwing immediately into a tizzy)

FAUSTRANEOUS - having nothing at all to do with the man who bargained with the Devil

FRUITRANEOUS - our boxcars are full of apples and pears and oranges

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FRUSTRAINEOUS: Can't get anything done when the sun doesn't shine.

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WONTED

PRONUNCIATION: (WON-tid)

MEANING: adjective: Usual; accustomed.

ETYMOLOGY: From Middle English woned, wont (accustomed), past participle of wonen (to be used to, dwell). Ultimately from the Indo-European root wen- (to desire or to strive for), which is also the source of wish, win, Venus, overweening, venerate, venison, and banyan, venial, and ween. Earliest documented use: 1408.

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DONTED - instructed not to

WONTAD - take your job and shove it !

WONTEL - what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas

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AMBAGIOUS

PRONUNCIATION: (am-BAY-juhs)

MEANING: adjective: Roundabout; circuitous.

ETYMOLOGY: From Middle English ambages (equivocation), taken as a plural and the singular ambage coined from it. From Latin ambages, from ambi- (both, around) + agere (to drive). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ag- (to drive, draw, or move), which also gave us act, agent, agitate, litigate, synagogue, ambassador, agonistes, axiomatic, cogent, incogitant, exigent, exiguous, intransigent. Earliest documented use: 1656.

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AMBIGIOUS - what Shakespeare said Marc Antony said Brutus said Caesar was, sort of

AMEBAGIOUS - transmitted by a simple one-celled organism

SAMBAGIOUS - describing a South American dancer in the throes of ecstasy

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GEMEINSCHAFT

PRONUNCIATION: (guh-MYN-shaft)

MEANING: noun: Social relations based on personal ties, affection, kinship, etc.

ETYMOLOGY: From German Gemeinschaft (community), from gemein (common) + -schaft (-ship). Earliest documented use: 1937.

NOTES: The counterpart of Gemeinschaft (community) is Gesellschaft (society), that is, social relation marked by impersonal ties, such as duty to society or to an organization.

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DEMEINSCHAFT - what sie bringen der Coal up to der Surface through

GEMINSCHAFT - twin axles

GEMEINSCHRAFFT - these are MY candies!

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STRAFE

PRONUNCIATION: (strayf)

MEANING:
verb tr.:
1. To attack with machine-gun fire or bombs from a low-flying aircraft.
2. To criticize severely.
noun:
1. An attack from a low-flying aircraft.
2. A severe criticism.

ETYMOLOGY: From the German slogan "Gott strafe England!" ([May] God punish England!) during WWI. From German strafen (to punish). Earliest documented use: 1915.

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STRIAFE - layers of iron

STRIFE - precursor of strafe

TRAFE - impure; not permitted

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GLEICHSCHALTUNG

PRONUNCIATION: (GLYK-shalt-toong)

MEANING: noun: The forced standardization of political, economic, and cultural institutions, as in an authoritarian state.

ETYMOLOGY: From German gleichschalten (to bring into line), from gleich (same) + schalten (to switch, turn). The term was used by the Nazi regime for totalitarian control. Earliest documented use: 1933.

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GLEICHSCHALTING - put an end to this coerced uniformity !

GLEICHSCHALTUNA - a Collective with a deep-sea fishing boat

FLEICHSCHALTUNG - intercepted the meat delivery



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