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Darn!  I think I meant this dern: dern[fr. Fris. dern, hidden, secret, obscure] now chiefly dialect 1) hidden, secret; crafty, underhanded 2) drear, dark, somber, dire 3) UK : earnest, determined But an SF approach is just as well.
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From his mountain dern, all alone, the hermit tried to dial his phone; alas! he had AT&T!
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1) hidden, secret; crafty, underhanded
Ok, so the phone was behind a secret panel!
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The secret panel has vanished.
Please don't kill the killdeer, we have lost the resurrection kit.
INHERIT - ICE CUBES
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Her grandfather twirled the ice cubes in his glass and growled, "If you expect to inherit anything from me, young lady, you'll finish school and get a job!"
TRILOBITE -- TRIPE
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"Trilobite! Trilobite?? I ain't no effen trilobite", said the thawed-out* man. "What a load of tripe--I'm not that old!"
*(At first I had frozen man...then I realized he wouldn't be able to speak!)
FORWENT--FRACTURE
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It is interesting that we seldom hear the verb "forwent". Sounds stuffy and pretentious, I guess. I will use "forego" in a sentence, and when needing to put it into past tense, would choose the structure: "decided to forego".
Tom forwent the camping trip due to his fractured thumb.
KIDNEY STONE -- KINDLING
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[whisper] Yeah, there wasn't any def. after the word; it just said to see forgo. But it was the headword.[/whisper]
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A Frenchman who lived on the Rhone
Was beset with a large kidney stone.
With a shaft thin as kindling,
His forbearance was dwindling,
And he decided to pass it alone.
MOFETTE - MOLT
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