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vituperate
PRONUNCIATION: (vy-TOO-puh-rayt, -TYOO-, vi-)
MEANING:
verb tr., intr.: To use harsh or abusive language.
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From Latin vituperare (to blame), from vitium (fault) + parare (to make or prepare). Earliest documented use: 1542.
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BITUPERATE - to loudly curse someone in two languages.
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The THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. -Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1928)
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VICTUPERATE - to dis someone you have just defeated
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scrutate
PRONUNCIATION: (SKRU-tayt)
MEANING: verb tr.: To investigate.
ETYMOLOGY:
rom Latin scrutari (to examine). Earliest documented use: 1882.
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SCRULATE - To investigate after the fact.
Example: Late Christmas morning a farm boy jumped from his bed and ran to see what good Santa had brought. He finds that his Christmas stocking is filled with horse dung.
"I told you to get up early," his father said,"Santa brought you a nice pony but it ran away".
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SCRUBATE - the motion used to put the worm on the hook.
alternative:
SERUTATE - like the advertised cure for constipation
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SCRUMATE - the mate with whom your arm is hooked when you scrum.
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distend
PRONUNCIATION: (di-STEND)
MEANING:
verb tr., intr.: To swell, inflate, or extend.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin dis- (away, apart) + tendere (to stretch). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ten- (to stretch), which is also the source of tense, tenet, tendon, tent, tenor, tender, pretend, extend, tenure, tetanus, hypotenuse, tenable, tenuous, extenuate, countenance, pertinacious, and detente. Earliest documented use: 1400
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LISTEND - List, ending
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MISTEND - when the sun breaks through
(compare DUSTEND - when it finally rains)
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Awake, Great Star! What would thy Glory be if you had not those upon whom you shine?
DISTREND - to detach one's belief system from trendy thoughts.
For example: The last sixteen years of Global Warming hasn't warmed the World to my satisfaction.
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manducate
PRONUNCIATION: (MAN-joo-kayt)
MEANING:
verb tr.: To chew or eat.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin mandere (to chew). Ultimately from the Indo-European root menth- (to chew), which also gave us masticate, mandible, and manger. Earliest documented use: 1623.
USAGE:
"Flem literally manducates, chewing over his surroundings."
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MANDULATE - the ability to pick and strum a mandolin while keeping time time time chewing Juicy Fruit Chewing Gum.
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WANDUCATE – To teach at Hogwarts.
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XANDUCATE -Kubla Khan's school, located on the banks of the Alph River
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MA-EDUCATE- home schooling
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MANDULATTE - coffee so thick and strong that you have to chew it
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LANDUCATE - to chew up lands in the name of restoring a state of eco-stasis.
Example: the re-introduction of warthogs to Yellowstone National Park because they were snorting around during the Pleistocene.
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POLYPHILOPROGENITIVE
PRONUNCIATION: (pol-ee-fi-luh-pro-JEN-uh-tiv)
MEANING: adjective: Extremely prolific.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek poly- (many) + philo- (loving) + Latin progenitive (producing offspring), from pro- (toward) + past participle of gignere (to beget). Earliest documented use: 1919, in a poem by T.S. Eliot.
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POLYP-HILL-PROGENITIVE - making lots of coral reefs
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Wow, wofa. Wow.
POLYPHILOPROGERITIVE – The life-extending quality of having many lovers after retirement.
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Very clever indeed! Although possibly open to misinterpretation - I would have guessed it meant aging very fast, and prematurely ("progeria"). I offer as evidence a very old joke:
...Young cub reporter on her first Human Interest assignment goes to a Nursing Home to interview the oldest resident she can see.
"What do you owe your age to?" she ventures.
"Three things," he says. "I smoke a carton of cigarettes every day. I drink a quart of bourbon daily. I never sleep with the same woman twice...and I never go to bed alone!" comes the reply.
"Oh, my goodness," says the sweet young thing. "And just how old are you?
"Twenty-three," he says...
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POLYPHILOPREGENITIVE - first you love mankind...then you have kids.
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Very clever indeed! Although possibly open to misinterpretation - I would have guessed it meant aging very fast, and prematurely ("progeria"). I offer as evidence a very old joke:
...Young cub reporter on her first Human Interest assignment goes to a Nursing Home to interview the oldest resident she can see.
"What do you owe your age to?" she ventures.
"Three things," he says. "I smoke a carton of cigarettes every day. I drink a quart of bourbon daily. I never sleep with the same woman twice...and I never go to bed alone!" comes the reply.
"Oh, my goodness," says the sweet young thing. "And just how old are you?
"Twenty-three," he says...
Love it, wofa!
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LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY
PRONUNCIATION: (lit-l lord FONT-luh-roi)
MEANING: noun: An innocent child; also a very polite and well-dressed child.
ETYMOLOGY: From Frances Hodgson Burnett's novel Little Lord Fauntleroy (1885). Earliest documented use: 1942.
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LITTLE LORD FLAUNT LEROY - The short Earl likes to boast about his "in" with King Louis XIV
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LITTLE LORD FLAUNTLEROY- Leroy flaunts new knickers (I count about 20 letters in the above definition) 
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ANTHROPOMORPHIZATION
PRONUNCIATION: (an-thruh-puh-mor-fy-ZAY-shuhn)
MEANING: noun: Attribution of human qualities to things not human.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek anthropo- (human) + morph (form). Earliest documented use: 1880.
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ANTHROPOMORPHINATION - a man turning into an opium den
ARTHROPOMORPHIZATION - a Kafka-esque literary device, to be used sparingly as it's full of bugs :
(as in, "Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams and found himself transformed into a gigantic insect...")
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PANTHROPOMORPHIZATION - to morph all hes into shes.
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BANTHROPOMORPHIZATION – Illegalization of turning aliens into humans.
TANTHROPOMORPHIZATION – Attribution of human qualities to everything under the sun.
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SILK-SMOCKING DISTRICT- Harlem after work at nite.
(20 letters)
Usage:
I said Baby where you going
She said Honey I wouldn't be knowing
She had on a long smocking frock
She stopped in the street and did the Castle Rock
- Jimmy Reed 1956
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SALK-STOCKING DISTRICT - where the polio-vaccine warehouses are
SILK-SHOCKING DISTRICT - the place to see a demonstration of static electricity
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SECRET DE POLICHINELLE
PRONUNCIATION: (SEE-krit uv po-LISH-i-nel)
MEANING: noun: A supposed secret that's widely known: an open secret.
ETYMOLOGY: From French secret de Polichinelle. Polichinelle (English Punch or Punchinello) was a stock character in Italian puppetry. Earliest documented use: 1828.
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SECRET DE POLICE IN ELLE - She knows all the dirt about those Paris cops
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DECRET DE POLICHNELLE - a decree given by a puppet
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acuity
PRONUNCIATION: (uh-KYOO-i-tee)
MEANING:
noun: Sharpness; keenness.
ETYMOLOGY:
Via French from Latin acuere (to sharpen). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ak- (sharp), which is also the source of acrid, vinegar, acid, acute, edge, hammer, heaven, eager, oxygen, mediocre, paragon, and acescent. Earliest documented use: 1400.
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ACULTY - to act as a cult. Ex: self-serving scientists who believe that the oceans will rise almost six inches in this Century and the sky is falling oh my!
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ACUITY
PRONUNCIATION: (uh-KYOO-i-tee)
MEANING: noun: Sharpness; keenness.
ETYMOLOGY: Via French from Latin acuere (to sharpen). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ak- (sharp), which is also the source of acrid, vinegar, acid, acute, edge, hammer, heaven, eager, oxygen, mediocre, paragon, and acescent. Earliest documented use: 1400.
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AQUITY - watered stock
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AKUITY=High faluttin' cat.
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desuetude PRONUNCIATION:(DES-wi-tood, -tyood) MEANING: noun: A state of disuse. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin de- (away from) + suescere (to become accustomed). Earliest documented use: 1623. USAGE: "Far from being a high-tech wonder, the Earth Station had a sad, neglected air about it, a feeling of desuetude and abandonment." Douglas Preston; Impact; Forge Books; 2010. ======================================================== DE-SUET-DUDE - de dude who makes de soap. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn. -John Updike, writer (1932-2009) Yeah. That's what I thought about Rabbit Redux. 
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DE SUE-TUBE - used by unscrupulous lawyers to record and share videos of their court cases
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TURGID
PRONUNCIATION: (TUR-jid)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Swollen; congested.
2. Pompous; high-flown.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin turgere (to swell). Earliest documented use: 1620.
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STURGID - the fish that gives you black caviar when you have a stuffed nose
SURGID - nametag worn by the doctor who's about to take out your appendix
THURGID - what his friends called the lawyer who Marshalled his arguments to present Brown v. Board of Education to the Supreme Court, years before he was appointed to the bench himself
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TURGRID - the congested morning traffic found in every city where the streets form a grid ============================================================== A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:It's best to give while your hand is still warm. -Philip Roth, novelist (b. 1933) That's easy for you to say, Phillip Roth. 
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sciolism
PRONUNCIATION: (SY-uh-liz-uhm)
MEANING:
noun: Pretentious display of superficial knowledge.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Late Latin sciolus (smatterer), diminutive of Latin scius (knowing), from scire (to know). Ultimately from the Indo-European root skei- (to cut or split), which also gave us schism, ski, shin, science, conscience, nice, scienter, nescient, exscind, and adscititious. Earliest documented use: 1810.
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SCIOLIST - he who understands that all knowledge is superficial ()
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SCOOLISM - Education, for everybody! (especially spelling)
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SCIOLIS - a little-known Italian pastry dessert
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SCROLISM - the silly flip of a finger that spins a tiny display screen past where you want to stop in poor imitation of real scrolling by a trustworthy desk-top mouse. 
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