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A.Word.A.Day--adulate What to give to the person who has everything? Give the gift of words. Pronunciation: WAV or RealAudio adulate (AJ-uh-layt) tr.verb To praise or admire excessively; fawn on. [Back-formation from adulation.] "The Crude Oasis is not going to be much-watched or much-adulated this time around, but if Graves makes it, it could end up being a debut film looked back upon for evidence of how a great director developed his techniques." The Crude Oasis, Magill's Survey of Cinema, 18 Jun 1996. This week's theme: words coined by the process of back-formation. X-Bonus There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. -Ansel Adams

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