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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--wangle This week's theme: blend words. wangle (WANG-guhl) verb To achieve something by scheming or manipulating. [Of uncertain origin, apparently a blend of wag and dangle.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg wordsmith.org) "As interested as I was in seeing the Little Chapman Mansion, I never would have tried to wangle an invitation." Steve Brown; Little Chapman Mansion Shows Centuries of Architecture; Chico Enterprise-Record (California); Oct 16, 2006. X-Bonus Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. -Bertrand Russell, philosopher, mathematician, and author (1872-1970)

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