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PLUTARCHY
PRONUNCIATION:
(PLOO-tahr-kee)
MEANING:
noun: 1. Rule by the wealthy. 2. A wealthy ruling class.
ETYMOLOGY:
The Greek biographer Plutarch (c. 46-120 CE) has no connection with this word. Rather, it's Ploutos, the god of riches in Greek mythology. The word (and its synonym plutocracy and the word plutolatry) are derived from Greek pluto- (wealth) + archos (ruler), from arkhein (to rule). Earliest documented use: 1643.
USAGE:
"Boston's upper crust made sure that they had an unfair advantage over their less fortunate neighbors, an advantage intended to perpetuate plutarchy and a socially stratified society."
Keith Krawczynski; Daily Life in the Colonial City; Greenwood; 2012.
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PLUTOITCHY - a dog with flees.
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Hey Bazr, the established protocol of the plutoarchy here is to make a single letter change so as to effect another meaning. As in U to O as below... PLOTARCHY - the plot of the anuarchy here to make this game more challenging and fun. 
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PLUS-ARCHY - government on the misguided principle that More is better
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PLUTARCH - a historian, philosopher, poet, and member of the first Republican Tea Party of the First Century AD. (see qoute below)
The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.
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GLUTARCHY – Government by those who do nothing but sit.
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Hey Bazr, the established protocol of the plutoarchy here is to make a single letter change so as to effect another meaning. As in U to O as below... PLOTARCHY - the plot of the anuarchy here to make this game more challenging and fun. Thanks Jenny Jenny. Learning as I go.
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reproof
PRONUNCIATION:
(ri-PROOF)
MEANING:
noun: Disapproval; blame.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Old French reprover (to criticize), from Latin reprobare (to disapprove), from re- (opposite) + probare (to approve), from probus (good). Earliest documented use: 1375.
USAGE:
"The nuns have continued to insist on their right to debate and challenge church teaching, which has resulted in the Vatican's reproof."
Laurie Goodstein; Nuns Weigh Response to Scathing Vatican Rebuke; The New York Times; Jul 29, 2012.
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RIPROOF - when your tent is damaged in a gale.
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Now Bazro, I don't mean you no reproof. But you'd best move out of that flimsy tent and get you a nice sturdy doublewide. Then when the next gale visits, you won't have to... (drop p)
REROOF - to put up a new roof where your old roof used to stay
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REPROF - Tenure or no tenure, that guy is senile and has to go or there'll be no students at all
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RE POOF ! - to fail to blow out all the birthday candles on the first try and yet be given another chance
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REDROOF - I like that colour. It goes with my bloodshot eyes from watching the World Cup!!
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PREPROOF - what it takes to convict you of preprehension (see 5/26/14, above)
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PREPROOF - what it takes to convict you of preprehension (see 5/26/14, above)
Right on, Mister Wolfdoc, the term PREPROOF is a logical oxymoron; a contrived semantic construction used despairingly by those who practice pseudo science so as to preclude logical thought. You know, like the Flat Earthers and Global Warmists.
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votary
PRONUNCIATION:
(VOH-tuh-ree)
MEANING:
noun: 1. One who is devoted to an activity, person, institution, etc.
noun: 2. One who has taken vows to a religion, such as a monk or nun.
adjective: Bound by a vow or relating to a vow.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin votum (vow), from vovere (to vow), which also gave us vow, vote, and devote. Earliest documented use: 1546.
USAGE:
"The issue has been a matter of debate with strong votaries on both sides."
Road to Basel; Financial Express (New Delhi, India); May 4, 2012.
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LOTARY - a game of chance where even the word is dodgy.
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VOLTARY noun
1) Voltaire's private library
2) electric chair
3) eclectic chair
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VOBARY - Spoonerized middle-class French woman with doomed upper-class aspirations, from a novel by Flaubert
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YOTARY - a place where you can park your yacht in silence.
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VOTARDY - to stagger out of the bar after the polls are closed
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camarilla
PRONUNCIATION:
(kam-uh-RIL-uh, Spanish: kah-mah-REE-yah)
MEANING:
noun: A group of confidential scheming advisers.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Spanish, diminutive of cámara (chamber), from Latin camera (room), from Greek kamara (an object with an arched cover). Earliest documented use: 1839.
USAGE:
"In China ... successions to a bureaucratic collective leadership are managed by a tiny camarilla in a self-declared one-party state."
Simon Sebag Montefiore; In Russia, Power Has No Heirs; The New York Times; Jan 11, 2009.
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FAMARILLA - A group of family scheming advisers.
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HAMARILLA - a scheming Southern gorilla armed with a hammer
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CAMAROLLA - a sporty powerful compact car soon to be marketed by the new Chevrolet/Toyota conglomerate
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CAMAROLLA - a sporty powerful compact car soon to be marketed by the new Chevrolet/Toyota conglomerate
Good one, wofahuli. Copyright the name, could happen. (c) SCAMARILLA - carbon credits
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PRONUNCIATION:
(fan-DANG-go)
MEANING:
noun:
1. A lively Spanish dance in triple time.
2. A piece of music for this dance.
3. A foolish or silly behavior, act, or thing.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Spanish, of uncertain origin. Earliest documented use: 1766.
USAGE:
"Going through this ridiculous fandango of chicken and blackmail again is the height of irresponsibility."
Norman Ornstein; Extending Debt Limit Past Elections is Right Path; Roll Call (Washington, DC); Jul 27, 2011.
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MANDANGO - Fugitive on the run (man-DANG-go)
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FANDANGLO - Whitey struck out!
FANTANGO - a suggestive performance done to the music of a different Spanish dance. It takes two to do it.
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F and and O - mnemonic for spelling foo; as in egg foo yong
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pungle
PRONUNCIATION:(PUNG-uhl)
MEANING:
verb tr.: To make a payment; to shell out.
ETYMOLOGY:
Alteration of Spanish póngale (put it down), from poner (to put), from Latin ponere (to put). Ultimately from the Indo-European root apo- (off or away) that is also the source of after, off, awkward, post, puny, apposite, apropos, and dispositive. Earliest documented use: 1851.
USAGE:
"Congress pungled up $700 billion for a bailout."
Steve Rubenstein; 2008 in Review; San Francisco Chronicle; Dec 30, 2008.
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UNGLE - an ugly uncle
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PUHGLE - a dog that is constipated
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PUNGLEE - The Joy of Paranomasia
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picaroon
PRONUNCIATION:
(pik-uh-ROON)
MEANING:
noun: 1. A rogue, thief, or pirate. 2. A pirate ship.
verb intr.: To act as a pirate.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Spanish picarón (scoundrel), from picaro (rogue). Earliest documented use: 1624.
USAGE:
"I don't like bank stocks or banksters -- especially the big-city picaroons who have less conscience than a fox in a henhouse."
Malcolm Berko; Some OK Banksters and a Primer on Scripophily; Creators Syndicate (Los Angeles); Dec 14, 2011.
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PICAMOON - a Trekker deciding on a destination
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PICARDON - the starship captain's been around for so long they call him a dinosaur
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PICAROOM - new concept in finding accommodation
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PICARTOON - a cartoon based on the kitschy book
The Life of PI
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arroyo
PRONUNCIATION:
(uh-ROI-oh)
MEANING:
noun: A narrow, steep-sided watercourse, usually dry except after rain.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Spanish arroyo, from Latin arrugia (mine shaft). Earliest documented use: 1845.
USAGE:
"A wooden bridge took us across an arroyo and into a grassy area."
Gene Sager; In Touch With Nature; Natural Life (Toronto, Canada); Jan/Feb 2014.
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ARBOYO - the opposite to ARGIRLO
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ARROW-O - an arrow designed to circle back to the archer if the target is missed.
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ARROW-O - an arrow designed to circle back to the archer if the target is missed.
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ARTOYO - the Japanese version of 'Toy Story'
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ARROJO - Redbeard the Pirate, Scourge of the Spanish Main
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