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REPLETION
PRONUNCIATION: (ri-PLEE-shuhn)
MEANING: noun: The condition of being completely filled or satisfied.
ETYMOLOGY: Via French, from Latin replere, from re- (back, again) + plere (to fill), from plenus (full). Earliest documented use: 1398.
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PREPLETION -- what a good waiter does by pouring more into your glass just before you ask for it
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DEPLETION - the drain of spirit which occurs when a Culture choses excessive order over reason. Example: Nazi Germany.
REPLETION - the renewal of the human spirit after all Communist pinkos have been thrown out and freedom once again becomes enow.
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PONDEROUS
PRONUNCIATION: (PON-duhr-uhs)
MEANING:
adjective:
1. Having great weight.
2. Awkward or unwieldy.
3. Dull or laborious.
ETYMOLOGY:
Via French, from Latin ponderare (to ponder, weigh). Ultimately from the Indo-European root (s)pen- (to draw, to spin), which is also the source of pendulum, spider, pound, pansy, pendant, ponder, appendix, depend, spontaneous, perpend, vilipend, filipendulous, and equipoise. Earliest documented use: 1400.
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PANDEROUS - a quality universally possessed by politicians
PONDERONUS - weighty obligations
PONDEROPUS - I wonder what that penguin meant?
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PonderR'us - a gym chain for heavyweight lifters
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QUONDAM
PRONUNCIATION: (KWON-duhm)
MEANING: adjective: Former; onetime.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin quondam (formerly). Earliest documented use: 1535.
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QUONDAY - in old calendars, an unidentified day near the beginning of the week
(not to be ocnfused with
QUONDAE - the ice cream treat I just finished eating)
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QUONDAMN adj - belonging to bad times long past ex: a quondamn lover.
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QUONSAM A itty- bitty quonset.
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QUONDIM – fading of old memories.
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INIMICAL
PRONUNCIATION: (i-NIM-i-kuhl)
MEANING: adjective: 1. Harmful. 2. Unfriendly.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin in- (not) + amicus (friend). A few other words that share the same root are: amigo, amity, enemy, amicable, and amicus curiae. Earliest documented use: 1645.
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MINIMICAL - not very funny...
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That is because you are an intellectual giant and to average folks your jokes are
INTIMICAL - a smug manner that is intimidating to others so much as to their not wanting to engage you in casual conversation.
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THOUGHT FOR TODAY
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. -Robert A. Heinlein, off-the-wall science-fiction author (1907-1988)
Anti-thought for Today
Hallelujah! The good people of America have not legislated our religious creeds into law. Instead we have enabled people of strange and odd conceptualizations to live amongst us. Yes, we are the best of a motley bunch.
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ignominy
PRONUNCIATION: (IG-nuh-min-ee, ig-NOM-uh-nee)
MEANING:
noun: 1. Public disgrace. 2. Disgraceful quality or conduct.
ETYMOLOGY:
Via French, from Latin ignominia. Ultimately from the Indo-European root no-men- (name) which also gave us name, anonymous, noun, synonym, eponym, renown, nominate, misnomer, and moniker. Earliest documented use: 1540.
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GNOMINY noun
1. a growth condition particular to workers who dig dig dig under the Earth looking for treasure, ex: big head, short statue.
2. the ability to sing pithy, witty and wise sayings while digging, ex: Hi Ho!
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IGNORINY - what taxi drivers in Times Square do
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"Here's a fun exercise for you: find at least one person epitomizing the day's word, every day this week. With some seven billion of us around there can't be any excuse for insufficient data." -- A.G.
voluble
PRONUNCIATION:
(VOL-yuh-buhl)
MEANING:
adjective: Speaking incessantly or fluently.
ETYMOLOGY:
Via French, from Latin volvere (to roll). Ultimately from the Indo-European root wel- (to turn or roll), which also gave us waltz, revolve, valley, walk, vault, volume, wallet, and helix. Earliest documented use: 1575.
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EVOLUBLE - a quality assigned to any pre-adapted animal that can effect strings of articulated speech. So far homo sapiens sapiens is the only known species to evolve a proper language. These loquacious creatures began talking 75,000 years ago and haven't stopped since.
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VOLUBE (pronounced "V.O. Lube") - to break down social inhibitions with Seagrams
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INTRANSIGENT
PRONUNCIATION: (in-TRAN-si-jent)
MEANING:
adjective: Unwilling to compromise, especially from an extreme position.
noun: One who refuses to compromise.
(if you like, TRANGENTSI; read "In 'TRANSI', 'GENT'")
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INTRANSIENT - a one-night stand (maybe that should be SINTRANSIGENT?)
or, maybe
PINTRANSIGENT - (bowling): that last 7-pin that won't go down in the 10th frame, spoiling a 300-game
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GINTRANSIGENTrefusing to budge from one's accustomed
drink no matter what is being served by the host.
KINTRANSIGENT Your friends you can choose but your
relatives.....
perhaps
SINTRANSIGENT Refusing to 'give up that sin' and 'sin no more"....
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Tom Chamblee.
Tom Chamblee could talk the ears off a cornfield. His third grade teacher, Miss Hattie Grimes, tied him to a desk with a jump rope and taped his mouth shut with duct tape for the entire year back in 1958. Poor Hattie, She forgot to plug his ears so Tom listened real good and left the third grade thinking he was the smartest kid in Pickins County. Maybe he was. Tom grew up to become a street preacher and the town drunk. It is said that Tom can switch from preaching to cussing in a single breath without anyone knowing which is which.
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INTRANSIBENT -- red-eye flight from Seattle to Atlanta seated middle isle, middle seat, between a middle lineman with the Seahawks and Oprah Winfrey.
"Both remain intransigent in their respective positions without any real effort to negotiate in a democratic spirit."
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DINTRANSIGENT – refuses to turn down the stereo despite all pleas and threats.
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INTRANSITENT – A Tolkien creature on his way from Fangorn to Isengard.
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potentate
PRONUNCIATION: (POH-ten-tayt)
MEANING:
noun: One having great power, especially an autocratic person.
ETYMOLOGY:
Via French, from Latin posse (to be able). Ultimately from the Indo-European root poti- (powerful, lord), which is also the source of power, potent, possess, pasha, compossible, impuissance, and puissant. Earliest documented use: 1475.
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POTENTGATE - any scandal involving a powerful leader,
such as the scandal that gave us the euphemism "a monica lewinski".
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PODENTATE - to have no money left after the Dentist finishes with you (but at
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POTENTAGE – long ago, alas.
POTENTALE – favorite quaff down at Alice's Champagne Palace.
POTENTAT – to make very strong lace.
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sophist
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MEANING:
noun: One who makes clever, but unsound arguments.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin sophista, from Greek sophistes (sage), from sophos (clever). Earliest documented use: 1542. In ancient Greece, Sophists were philosophers and teachers known for their subtle, but fallacious reasoning.
USAGE:
"But this day Mansoor had turned five, and Ma used a sophist's argument to call for a celebration."
M.G. Vassanji; The Assassin's Song; Doubleday; 2007.
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SOPHISTA- a sophist with latinate pretensions.
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SOPHIET - with "Former..." and "...Union", a rough coalition of Communist countries, from the early to the late 20th Century.
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"Sophiet" Brilliant! The best of novian words needed to succinctly describe a particuliar geo-situation in time.
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solicitous
PRONUNCIATION: (suh-LIS-i-tuhs)
MEANING:
adjective:
1. Full of concern.
2. Eager.
3. Meticulous.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin sollus (whole). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sol- (whole), which brought us solid, salute, save, salvo, soldier, catholicity, salutary, and salubrious. Earliest documented use: 1563.
USAGE:
"The staff is solicitous of its core customer; efficient with others."
Alexandra Jacobs; Dennis Basso's New Shop; The New York Times; Dec 12, 2013.
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POLICITOUS - what a polictian is really being when he is being salicitous to us.
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SOLICITOYS - turn them on and they ask you for money (compare SOLICITOTS - nursery school kids sent out to raise money from the neighbors)
On an analogous vein: SOPLICITOUS - fawning behavior, except they're is lying to you
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it. -Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor (1706-1790)
A COUNTER THOUGHT TO CONSIDER:
Ah so true, Benji. But I bet the Infinite Father wouldn't mind if we felt solace after our prayers to Him, and, if in our praise of Him, we, by emulation, become better people, then I'll bet He will be pleased if we do over-populate this- and His- beautiful blue and green Earth. (2014-etc)
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stellenbosch
PRONUNCIATION: (STE-len-bosh)
MEANING:
verb tr.: To relegate someone incompetent to a position of minimal responsibility.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Stellenbosch, a town in South Africa. Earliest documented use: 1900.
NOTES:
Stellenbosch, near Cape Town, was a British military base during the Second Boer War. Officers who had not proven themselves were sent to Stellenbosch, to take care of something relatively insignificant, such as to look after horses. Even if they kept their rank, this assignment was considered a demotion. Eventually the term came to be applied when someone was reassigned to a position where he could do little harm.
Also see Peter Principle.
A similar term is coventry.
Another word derived from the name of a South African town is maffick.
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STEALLENBOSCH- a village in South Africa where people who steal are sent because in Steallenbosch there is nothing to steal.
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STELLENBOTCH - a failure of astronomical proportions, such as will get you exiled to You-Know-Where
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ST. ELLEN BOTCH- a botch so bad that only the Sainted Ellen knows the whereabouts of where she is at.
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campanology
PRONUNCIATION: (kam-puh-NOL-uh-jee)
MEANING:
noun: The art or study of bell-ringing or making bells.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin campana (bell). From the Campania region in Italy, known for the bronze that was used to cast bells. Earliest documented use: 1847.
NOTES:
The term bell-ringing is preferred over campanology by people involved in it. In general, those in the know go with simpler terms. For example, caving over spelunking, coding over developing software, and so on. At any rate, here's an introductory video on campanology/bell-ringing that has managed to stuff as many puns as are legally permitted in a five-minute video. Did they miss any? Chime in.
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CAMPANOOGY (kam-puh-noo-gee ) - a place on the Tennessee River where they later built the City of Chattanooga.
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CAMPANALOGY: Not only are the rich richer than the poor they are also cheap. Brookie snobs in Mountain Brook consort at Mountain Brook Country Club in yesterday's styles and consider themselves very "camp chic".
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CAMPANOOGY (kam-puh-noo-gee ) - a place on the Tennessee River where they later built the City of Chattanooga.
(Shouldn't CAMPANOOGY be what Boy Scouts on Jamboree do when they're acting like the Three Stooges?)
COMPANOLOGY - knowing one's business
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PERSE
PRONUNCIATION: (puhrs)
MEANING: adjective: Of a grayish blue or purple color.
ETYMOLOGY: From persus (dark blue), from Latin Persicus (Persian), from Persia, former name of Iran. Why this color is associated with Persia is not entirely clear. Earliest documented use: 1387.
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PERSHE - a chocolate bar to be divided among the women present
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P > V VERSE - you write a line that almost rhymes but is much too terse and somewhat adverse so you curse, your face turns perse, and you almost die. Then you call a nurse who calls a hearse thinking you already dead. But worse, you write... " PERSHE - a chocolate bar to be divided among the women present"  [SMILE]
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Anu's Quote of the Day
"There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with." -Harry Crews, novelist and playwright (1935-2012)
Maybeso, Harry Crews
"Yet the scars encoded within our brain often remain hidden." (2014-201?)
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