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HOTATORY - someplace warm where you get the urge to vacation.
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SHORTATORY - a financial strategy based on the conviction that the fortunes of the Conservatives are on the decline
AORATORY - a cherished grade in Public Speaking class (No thanks, no tea today)
Did you see that sign that said
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. . . . . . . AND LESS OF THE LAST SEVEN
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FORTATORY - a place where the US Army hang out and wait for Indians to attack.
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formicate
PRONUNCIATION:
(FOR-mi-kayt)
MEANING:
verb intr.:
1. To crawl like ants.
2. To swarm with ants.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin formicare (to crawl like ants), from formica (ant). Earliest documented use: 1854.
USAGE:
"Again, again, again, until you reach the inevitable conclusion of sky-rises, nuclear submarines, orbiting satellites, and Homo sapiens formicating the Earth."
Laird Barron; Shiva, Open Your Eye; Fantasy & Science Fiction (Cornwall, Connecticut); Sep 2001.
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FORMIDATE: - a new website for meeting a new flame.
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FORMICATER - a person with perverted formical interests e.g. E.O. WILSON
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FORMIHATE - 1040
FORMICASTE - the Buggers (see Ender's Game and its sequels and prequels)
FORMICARE - a new product to clean your kitchen counters
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DORMICATE - to stash forbidden objects in the college dorm. Examples: beer and chicks, chicks and beer, beer and sheep, etc.
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WORMICATE - to squirm like worms
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assonance
PRONUNCIATION:
(AS-uh-nuhns)
MEANING:
noun: The use of words with same or similar vowel sounds but with different end consonants.
Example: The o sounds in Wordsworth's "A host, of golden daffodils."
ETYMOLOGY:
Via French, from Latin ad- (to) + sonare (to sound), from sonus (sound). Ultimately from the Indo-European root swen- (to sound), which also gave us sound, sonic, sonnet, sonata, and unison. Earliest documented use: 1728.
USAGE:
"The passage offers many beauties: the nearly incantatory repetition, the assonance (define and confine, streets and treat, space and faces), the homophones (rains and reins -- but not reigns?), the pun (no sign of motorway)."
Kevin Dettmar; Less Is Morrissey; The Chronicle of Higher Education (Washington, DC); Dec 9, 2013.
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ASSONUANCE
ASS uh noo on(t)s
1) any word that suggests another meaning (usually vulgar)
2) the use of the word "assonance" in polite society when followed by a giggle.
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ASSODANCE - 1. what the little bubbles do at the surface of a glass of Coca-Cola
2. Freshman college mixer run by Charlie Chan
ASSONANCHE - the entire herd of donkeys lost their footing and fell roly-poly pell-mell tumble-bumble down the mountainside
ASSONACE - What's the highest card in any suit?
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inspissate
PRONUNCIATION:
(in-SPIS-ayt)
MEANING:
verb tr., intr.: To thicken or condense.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin inspissare (to thicken), from spissus (thick). Earliest documented use: 1603.
USAGE:
"These are flavors that have been inspissating in some timeless tandoor for hours, days -- decades."
Brad Leithauser; And an Outpost on Rodeo Drive; The New York Times; Mar 5, 1995.
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GINSPISSATE - an alcoholic drink that makes you go and then you feel hungry.
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INSWISSATE - gorged myself at the Lindt/Sprüngli store
INSPISSAUTÉ - first you lant it, then you cook it in a small amount of fat over high heat so it "jumps" above the surface of the pan
INSPISSTATE - piss-poor government
(INSPISSATE is a fairly common word in medicine, btw. Fluids that are inspissated are thick and viscous and generally not a good thing to find or to have. If they're lung secretions, for example, they're hard to cough up, and difficult to penetrate with antibiotics. It's pronounced "IN-spi-sate" in this context.)
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KINSPISSATE-family gathering where the more the drink is
grogged, the thicker the tongue becomes
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INSPISSTATE - a short state in height but thick in the middle like Tennessee and unlike the three states under it which are narrow states, Georgia, Alabama, and the one that is hard to spell... ISSPPISSATE 
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SINPISSATE - an establishment of drunken debauchery and filth.
debauchery - I love this word, not because of it's meaning, I just love saying it!!!
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cocker
PRONUNCIATION:
(KAHK-uhr)
MEANING:
verb tr.: To pamper or spoil.
noun: A breed of small spaniel dog.
ETYMOLOGY:
For verb: Of obscure origin. Earliest documented use: 1499.
For noun: From the use of such dogs in hunting of birds such as woodcock. Earliest documented use: 1811.
USAGE:
"Parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain."
John Locke (1632-1704).
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JOCKER - someone who does their morning run in their underpants.
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COCKEE- a cocky young man who is not very good at being cocky.
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JOCKER - someone who does their morning run in their underpants. or just a codpiece
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COPKER - a policeman who monitors the safety of codpieces.
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COCKLER - she sells sea shells by the seashore In Dublin, no less,
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CROCKER - any cheerful, wholesome, rosy-cheeked, full bodied woman who excels in baking cakes, pies, and in pleasing her man in artfull ways... whose first name happens to be "Betty".
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vizard or visard
PRONUNCIATION:
(VIZ-uhrd)
MEANING:
noun: A visor, mask, or disguise.
ETYMOLOGY:
A variant of visor, from Anglo-French viser, from vis (face), from visus (sight), from videre (to see). Ultimately from the Indo-European root weid- (to see), which is also the source of guide, wise, vision, advice, idea, story, history, previse, polyhistor, invidious, hades, eidos, and eidetic. Earliest documented use: 1555.
USAGE:
"The birds wear floor-length costumes, and Princess Victoria actually comes from the Veneto, bearing a vizard (the beaked plague-doctor's mask)."
The ABC of Fabulous Princesses; Kirkus Reviews (New York); Dec 15, 2013.
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VIZCARD - like a visa but you can swipe it to get in and out of countries.
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VIZART - Pop Art disguised and contrived as True Art.
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VISAID -
1) snake oil peddled as a way to let you see better without needing glasses
2) additional identification with your picture on it to prove you are the rightful owner of a credit or debit card
3) reply to the question, "What did you say was the Roman numeral for five? I couldn't hear you."
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grogram
PRONUNCIATION: (GROG-ruhm)
MEANING:
noun: A coarse fabric of silk, combined with mohair or wool, and often stiffened with gum.
ETYMOLOGY:
From French gros grain (large or coarse grain). Another fabric from the same origin is grosgrain. Earliest documented use: 1562.
USAGE:
"Instead of putting her still-thick, white hair into its usual twist, she'd tied it back at the nape of her neck with a black, grogram ribbon."
Nancy Desrosiers; Stay a Little Longer; Tate Publishing; 2011.
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GYROGRAM - a high-tech way (three generations ago, anyway) of ordering a sandwich from the Greek restaurant
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GEOGRAM - a machine that helps map the geography of the earth to establish
faults where volcanic activity and earthquakes may occur.
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secretory
PRONUNCIATION:
(si-KREE-tuh-ree)
MEANING:
adjective: Relating to the release of a substance from a cell, gland, or an organ.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin secernere (to distinguish), from se- (apart) + cernere (to sift). Ultimately from the Indo-European root krei- (to sift or to discriminate), which also gave us crime, crisis, certain, excrement, secret, critic, garble, hypocrisy, and diacritical. Earliest documented use: 1692.
USAGE:
"The secret behind such organised societies is communication through the use of around 20 pheromones, emitted by ants' secretory organs."
Wisdom of Crowds; The Economist (London, UK); Apr 8, 2009.
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SECRESTORY - entomoligists have known for a long time that ants talked in smells but thought it best not to tell anybody.
EXAMPLE:
"The secret behind such organised societies is communication through the use of around 20 pheromones, emitted by ants' secretory organs."
Wisdom of Crowds; The Economist (London, UK); Apr 8, 2009.
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SACRETORY - a Conservative French Cardinal
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FACTITIOUS PRONUNCIATION: (fak-TISH-uhs) MEANING: adjective: 1. Artificial 2. Sham ETYMOLOGY: From Latin facticius (artificial), past participle of facere (to do). Earliest documented use: 1646. ------------------------- FACTRITIOUS - full of objective truths, thereby nourishng the mind FACETITIOUS - describing a gem cut into many small smooth sides, to enhance internal reflectivity and increase sparkle ------------------------- Hmm... first inspissated, then secretory, now factitious - could be subtitled "Another thread of Words from Medicine" 
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PROEM
PRONUNCIATION: (PRO-uhm, -em)
MEANING: noun: An introduction, preface, or preamble.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French proeme, from Latin prooemium, from Greek prooimion, from pro- (before) + oime (song). Earliest documented use: 1410.
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PROLEM - what an alcoholic has (see VOTARDY, above)
PROXEM - singular of PROXI
BROEM - a Dutch besom
PRO-REM - that new sleeping medicine
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PHOEM (FOE-em ) -
1) a home phone not a cell phone
2) anything archaic
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ROEM - what you do to shells, sculls, and wherries
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PREOM - what you do before you start meditating.
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...that would be a private bathroom ?
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Maybe. But it also was supposed to be THE LAST WORD 
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