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one of my boys asked me about the word obnoxious today, which got me thinking about other "ob" words. obdurate, oblong, oblique. a quick check of OneLook and M-W gave a few variant ideas about the prefix "ob". no real question, I guess, but what other ob words come to mind, and have you other thoughts about ob? (I know, I could ob* at OneLook, but what's the fun in that with this obrudite crowd?) 
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Not that I wish to obfuscate the obvious...
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As if such a useful word that means "to make unnecessary" could become old-fashioned! Traverse this oblate spheroid as you wish and you will find no finer word. Think not that I am obsequious towards this sparse organization of letters - it is not my master. My obduracy on its account is not due to servility, but to a genuine pleasure experienced as its syllables articulate sonorously from my lips and tongue. I accept gladly any obstreperous obloquy I endure for this oblation.
"Obviate" is nectar for my ears.
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Well that certainly obtunded MY response! Though there's always the obverse side.
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An obsidian obelisk erected
(Critiques being quite unexpected)
Was seen as too dark
And removed from the park
As soon as new mayor elected.
The Obelus has one pair of eyes
And all that it sees it divides
And yet if it feed
On infinitesimal seeds
The result is infinite size
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I'm not sure about your objective, eta, though I'm sure it's not objectionable, obviously. 
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objectiveI guess it is a bit obtuse...
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obtuse
But not obscene, I obtest. Please don't objurgate me with obloquy.
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Observe! I have maintained my obmutescence long enough!
Although I will likely gain no oblectation from this, I must
now resort to obscurantism deluxe in order to obtrude on this
continuing obtrectation. But, in order to obtund the
effects of my obvelation (to say nothing of my obvolution),
I will obstringe my remarks without further obreptitiousness.
-ron obvious
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