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there's also
NUISSANCE - always making a pest of oneself
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OUI-SSANCE - saying "yes" to everything
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RECAPITULATE
PRONUNCIATION: ree-kuh-PICH-uh-layt)
MEANING: verb tr., intr.: To recap or to repeat.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin recapitulare (to sum up), re- (again) + capitulare (to draw up under headings), from capitulum (little head, chapter), from caput (head). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kaput- (head), also the origin of head, captain, chef, chapter, cadet, cattle, chattel, achieve, biceps, mischief, and occiput. Earliest documented use: 1551.
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PRECAPITULATE - the fix is in
RECAPITULANTE - throw good money after bad; keep playing Poker when you're deep on the hole
REDCAPITULATE - the Baggage-Handlers' Union has agreed to a new contract
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DEGUST
PRONUNCIATION: (di-GUHST)
MEANING: verb tr.: To taste or savor appreciatively.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin degustare (to taste), from de- (completely) + gustare (to taste). Ultimately from the Indo-European root geus- (to taste or choose), which also gave us choice, choose, gusto, ragout, and disgust. Earliest documented use: 1623.
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DOGUST (rhymes with August) - the hot sultry days of summer
DEGAUST - removed residual magnetism
DEBUST - 1) post someone's bail; 2) what the Amazons did to themselves so they'd be better archers
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REPROVE
PRONUNCIATION: (ri-PROOV)
MEANING: verb tr.: To reprimand or censure.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin reprobare (to disapprove), from re- (opposite) + probare (to approve), from probus (good). Earliest documented use: 1330.
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RYEPROVE - verify that your Canadian Club hasn't been diluted
REPLOVE - the endorphin high that makes you happy to continue exercising
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PROROGUE
PRONUNCIATION: (pro-ROHG)
MEANING: verb tr.:
1. To discontinue a session of something, for example, a parliament.
2. To defer or to postpone.
ETYMOLOGY: From French proroger (to adjourn), from Latin prorogare (to prolong or defer), from pro- (before) + rogare (to ask). Ultimately from the Indo-European root reg- (to move in a straight line, to lead or rule), which is also the source of regime, direct, rectangle, erect, rectum, alert, source, and surge. Earliest documented use: 1419.
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PRE-ROGUE - young scamp (cf. PRIOROGUE)
PYRO-ROGUE - arsonist
UPROR-OGUE - that Victoria's Secret sales brochure is so offensive, people everywhere are complaining loudly
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PEROROGUE - a Pololish dumplumpling
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REPOSE
PRONUNCIATION: (ri-POHZ)
MEANING:
noun:
1. A state of rest.
2. Calmness.
verb intr.:
3. To lie down.
4. To lie dead.
verb tr.:
5. To lay at rest.
6. To place confidence in someone or something.
7. To put something somewhere.
ETYMOLOGY:
For 1-5: From Latin repausare (to cause to rest), from re- (intensive prefix) + pausare (to rest), from pausa (rest). Earliest documented use: 1450.
For 6-7: From Latin reponere (to store up), from ponere (to put). Ultimately from the Indo-European root apo- (off or away) that is also the source of after, off, awkward, post, and puny. Earliest documented use: 1440.
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REPOSSE - Saddle up yer hosses one more time, boys, we got to chase down and ketch them varmints agin
REPOSY (ant. of LACKADAISICAL) - replace the missing flower
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CONSONANCE
PRONUNCIATION: (KON-suh-nuhns)
MEANING: noun:
1. Agreement or accord.
2. A combination of sounds pleasing to the ear.
3. The repetition of consonant sounds, especially at the ends of words, such as st in the phrase first and last.
ETYMOLOGY:
Via French, from Latin con- (with) + 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: 1430.
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CONSONANCE - all the letters but A E I O and U (the "identity" transformation)
COINSONANCE - random noises that happen to sound nice together
RONSONANCE - the click made by an old cigarette lighter
CONSONACE - that little squeak at the poker table made by a pair of bullets in the hole as you gently open them into view
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LEVEEPRONUNCIATION: (LEV-ee) MEANING: noun: 1. An embankment made to prevent flooding. 2. An embankment around a field that is to be irrigated. 3. A landing place; a quay. 4. A formal reception. ETYMOLOGY: For 1-3: From French levée, past participle of lever (to raise). Earliest documented use: 1718. For 4: From French levé, variant of lever (rising from bed), from lever (to rise). Originally, a levee was a meeting held on a royal's rising from bed. Earliest documented use: 1700. ----------------------------------- LEVET - where you bring LE DOG to get LE RABIES-SHOT ALEVEE - Naproxen For Her
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PROW
PRONUNCIATION: (prou)
MEANING: noun:
1. The front of a ship or a boat above the water; the bow.
2. The projecting front part of something, as a building.
adjective:
3. Valiant.
ETYMOLOGY: For 1-2: From Middle French proue, from Old Italian dialect prua, from Latin prora. Ultimately from the Indo-European root per- (forward), which also gave us paramount, prime, proton, Czech prám (raft), German Frau (woman), and Hindi purana (old). Earliest documented use: 1555.
For 3: From Middle French prou, from Old English prud. Earliest documented use: 1350.
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PHROW
1. a line-up of chemicals arranged in order of their acidity (sometimes written pHROW)
2. a scam email trying to sell you a fake German wife
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