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it's called "prowess" when a woman has it As in: "The guys stood there amazed, ogling her prowess." Not sure I want to compete on your level, Doc. pHROW=WOW! MROW 1. The sound projecting from the front part of a cat. 2. Personification of pain, who sometimes accompanies his friend Mean Ol' Mr. Gravity.
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ROTE
PRONUNCIATION: (roht)
MEANING: noun:
1. A mechanical or unthinking way of doing something.
2. The sound of surf.
3. A medieval stringed instrument or Celtic origin. Also known as crowd or crwth.
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For 1: Of obscure origin. Earliest documented use: 1325.
For 2: Perhaps of Scandinavian origin. Earliest documented use: 1610.
For 3: From Middle French rote. Earliest documented use: 1330.
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ROTEL - first win the crew race, then make sure everybody knows about it
pronunciation: row-TELL
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LOBLOLLY
PRONUNCIATION: (LOB-lol-ee)
MEANING: noun:
1. A thick gruel.
2. Mire; mudhole.
3. An assistant to a ship's surgeon.
4. A pine tree with long needles and strong wood (Pinus taeda).
5. An evergreen, loblolly-bay (Gordonia lasianthus).
ETYMOLOGY: Apparently from lob (an onomatopoeic word representing the sound of bubbling while boiling) + lolly (an English dialectal word for broth, soup, etc.). The use of the word for mire or a mudhole is from the porridge-like consistency of the contents of mire or mudhole. The word came to be used for a medical assistant because he fed the patients. The trees received this name from their prevalence in swamp lands. Earliest documented use: 1597.
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a. LOB/LOWLY - Throw me a slow one so I can hit it out of the infield!
b. LO/BLOWLY - How the boxer was hitting, which got him disqualified and lost him his bout
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LOBDOLLY - Toss me my Raggedy Ann, please
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LABLOLLY – Not much for finding the right reagents, but oh, you kid!
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DISAFFECT
PRONUNCIATION: (dis-uh-FEKT)
MEANING: verb tr.: To alienate the support or loyalty of someone.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin dis- (away) + affectare (to aim at, to strive after), from ad- (to) + facere (to do). Earliest documented use: 1621.
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DISAFFLECT - Ben has been removed from the cast of this film
DISHAFFECT - I hate the drying even more than the washing
DISTAFF-E.C.T. - electroshock therapy for the wife
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VOUCHSAFE
PRONUNCIATION: (vouch-SAYF)
MEANING: verb tr.: To grant or give something as if as a favor.
verb intr.: To condescend.
ETYMOLOGY: Via French, from Latin vocare (to call) + salvus (whole, intact). Earliest documented use: 1303.
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VOUCHSALE - My endorsement is available, for a moderate fee
COUCHSAFE - a condom to be used in your living room
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DISABUSE
PRONUNCIATION: (dis-uh-BYOOZ)
MEANING: verb tr.: To free from a mistaken belief or error.
ETYMOLOGY: Via French, from Latin dis- (away) + abusus (misuse, wasting). Earliest documented use: 1611.
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DAISABUSE - The After-Dinner Speaker is going on way too long
DISAMUSE - T'ain't funny, McGee.
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PROMULGATE
PRONUNCIATION: (PROM-uhl-gayt, pro-MUHL-)
MEANING: verb tr.:
1. To make a law, rule, etc. known by public declaration.
2. To make publicly known an idea, belief, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin promulgare (to make known), from pro- (forward) + mulgere (to milk, to cause to come out). Earliest documented use: 1526.
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PROVULGATE - encouraging the widespread adoption of the Late Fourth Century Latin version of the Bible
PROMULGAT - Second Amendment enthusiast
PROMULGAZE - the hooker scans the passersby considering which of them will be her next customer
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DISSUADEPRONUNCIATION: (di-SWAYD) MEANING: verb tr.: To convince someone not to do something. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin dissuadere (to advise against), from dis- (away) + suadere (to advise), from suavis (sweet). Ultimately from the Indo-European root swad- (sweet, pleasant), which also gave us sweet, suave, hedonism, persuade, Hindi swad (taste), suasion, and incunabulum. Earliest documented use: 1535. ____________________________________ DISQUADE - to make fun of one or more party arrivals (either gender) trying to look cool and sexy (see here) DISSUEDE - to remove the soft leather from your jacket or shoes; more broadly, to discard any leather products in your possession
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MAYHAP
PRONUNCIATION: (may-HAP, MAY-hap)
MEANING: adverb: Perhaps.
ETYMOLOGY: From the phrase 'it may hap', from Middle English hap, from Old Norse happ (luck, chance). Earliest documented use: 1533.
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MAYHARP - stringed instrument for use while dancing around a pole
MATHAP - it does adding and multiplying and algebra and calculus on your telephone
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A FORTIORI
PRONUNCIATION: (ah fort-tee-OR-ee, ay-for-shee-OR-eye)
MEANING: adverb: For an even stronger reason; even more so.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin, literally, from the stronger. Earliest documented use: 1569.
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A. FORTISORI - coming from the pen of a former Supreme Court Justice
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VERILY
PRONUNCIATION: (VER-uh-lee)
MEANING: adverb: In truth, indeed, truly, certainly.
ETYMOLOGY: From Middle English verraily, from verrai/verray (very), from Old French verai (true), from vulgar Latin veracus, from Latin verax (truthful). Earliest documented use: 1303.
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VEERILY - how a drunk drives
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PERCHANCE
PRONUNCIATION: (puhr-CHANS)
MEANING: adverb: Perhaps; maybe.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French par cheance (by chance), from Latin per (by, through) + cadentia (fall), from cadere (to fall). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kad- (to fall), which is also the source of cadence, cascade, casualty, cadaver, chance, chute, accident, occident, decay, recidivism, and casuistry. Earliest documented use: 1350.
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PURCHANCE - buying power
PEERCHANCE - the American jury system
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Purrchance- ambiguous message from your cat.
Pierchance- "To take a walk and forget where you started from." (A walking cliché that ends with a preposition.)
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Hi, May, and welcome! To all - forgive my sloppily typed heading - it's supposed to be "PERCH-ANCE: tendency to roost"  (that means "My face is red")
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Thank you.  Mayhappenstance // I was curious, yet didn't make the connection.(Chanticleer, ;)) Best wishes
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LIEF
PRONUNCIATION: (leef)
MEANING:
adverb: Willingly; gladly; readily.
adjective: 1. Dear, beloved. 2. Willing.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English leof (dear). Ultimately from the Indo-European root leubh- (to love or to care), which also gave us love, belief, and leave (permission). Earliest documented use: 897.
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IIEF - Institute of Industrial Electronics Engineering [IIEE], The Next Generation
LIEA - my dyslexic Star Wars heroine (not to be confused with my dyslexic spouse, or WIEF)
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FISSIPAROUS
PRONUNCIATION: (fi-SIP-uh-ruhs)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Tending to break into parts.
2. Reproducing by biological fission.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin fissi- (cleft) + -parous (bearing, producing). Earliest documented use: 1835.
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MISSIPAROUS - giving rise to a great river
FISHIPAROUS - Latin for "icthyogenetic"
FISSIPOROUS - full of cracks, and water goes right through it, too
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TELEOLOGY
PRONUNCIATION: (tel-ee-OL-uh-jee)
MEANING: noun:
1. The belief or the study of design or purpose in nature.
2. Such design or purpose.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek tele- (far, end) + -logy (study). Earliest documented use: 1742.
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TEEOLOGY - (golf) how to pick just the right ball support for your drive
TELEPOLOGY - an expression of regret offered after you're far enough away to escape retaliation
TELEOLOGE - the nosebleed seats in a truly gigantic theater
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XEROPHILOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (zee-ROF-uh-luhs)
MEANING: adjective: Adapted to a very dry or desert environment.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek xero- (dry) + -philous (liking). Earliest documented use: 1863.
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XEROPILOUS - having dry hair
NEROPHILOUS - fond of overweight, precise, word-loving detectives
ZEROPHILOUS - doesn't like anything
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DACTYLOSCOPY
PRONUNCIATION: (dak-tuh-LOS-kuh-pee)
MEANING: noun: The analysis of fingerprints for identification of individuals.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek dactylo- (finger or toe) + -scopy (observation). Earliest documented use: 1908.
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DACTYLOSCOOPY - hand-packed (like some ice cream)
DACTYLOCOPY - a counterfeit fingerprint
DACRYLOSCOPY - taking pictures only of clothes made with man-made fibers
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PLUTOMANIA
PRONUNCIATION: (ploo-tuh-MAY-nee-uh)
MEANING: noun: An obsession with money or wealth.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek pluto- (wealth) + -mania (excessive enthusiasm or craze). Earliest documented use: 1652.
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PLUTOMARIA - The new Disney movie where the dog mutinies and takes over Christopher Columbus' largest ship
PLUROMANIA - no singles allowed
FLUTOMANIA - James Galway ROCKS, and Jean-Pierre Rampal, too!
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LUFTMENSCH
PRONUNCIATION: (LOOFT-mensh)
MEANING: noun: An impractical dreamer.
ETYMOLOGY: From Yiddish, from luft (air) + mensch (man, person), from German. Earliest documented use: 1907.
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LUFTMESCH-- the fabric that covers airplane wings (in the early days of aviation, anyway)
LUFTMENSACH - The Right Stuff (the qualities that make one an airmen/test pilot)
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PISHER PRONUNCIATION: (PISH-uhr) MEANING: noun: 1. A bedwetter. 2. A young, inexperienced person. 3. An insignificant person: a nobody. ETYMOLOGY: From Yiddish pisher (pisser), from German pissen (to urinate). Earliest documented use: 1941. _________________________________________ PAISHER - a simple card game, when preceded by PISHER PISER - a man who is pathologically averse to spending money. Compare MISER, a woman who is...)
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GANEF
PRONUNCIATION: (GAH-nuhf)
MEANING: noun: A thief, swindler, or rascal.
ETYMOLOGY: From Yiddish, from Hebrew gannabh (thief). Earliest documented use: 1920.
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GANER - a Bostonian who doesn't have a long time left to live
GANFF - a national park in Canada, renamed after being renovated to attract tourists with clubs and balls to be hit into holes in the lowest possible number of strokes (see GALEF)
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MACHER
PRONUNCIATION: (MAHKH-uhr)
MEANING: noun:
1. A person of influence, one who gets things done.
2. A self-important overbearing person.
ETYMOLOGY: From Yiddish makher, from German macher (maker or doer). Earliest documented use: 1911.
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MANCHER - someone who lives on the French side of the English Channel
MALHER - a dyslexic German composer
MAC-HEF - an Irish playboy, familiarly (with apologies to J.M.Synge)
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KIBITZER
PRONUNCIATION: (KIB-it-suhr)
MEANING: noun: An onlooker who offers unwanted advice or criticism, for example at a card game.
ETYMOLOGY: From Yiddish kibitsen, from German kiebitzen (to look on at cards), from Kiebitz (busybody, literally pewit or lapwing, a shorebird with a bad reputation as a meddler). Earliest documented use: 1927.
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KIBUTZER - a dweller in an Israeli collective community
KOBITZER - someone who offers unwanted advice from the sidelines about how to raise prime Japanese beef
KIBITER - a rare insect that gnaws on the ebonies and the ivories on your piano
SKIBITZER - an enterpreneur who sells chic frills and furbelows and other doodads ("bitz") for your skis
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LUBRICIOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (loo-BRISH-uhs)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Lecherous.
2. Salacious.
3. Shifty or tricky.
4. Smooth and slippery.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin lubricus (slippery, smooth). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sleubh- (to slide or slip), which also gave us slip, slop, sloop, sleeve, and lubricate. Earliest documented use: 1584.
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LUBRICITOUS - specializing in in grease-and-oil jobs for your upscale car
RUBRICIOUS - tending - overpedantcally - to classify everything
LUMBRICIOUS - having hyperactive fingers or toes
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DIFFIDENT
PRONUNCIATION: (DIF-i-duhnt)
MEANING: adjective: Lacking in self-confidence.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin diffidere (to mistrust), from dis- (not) + fidere (to trust). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bheidh- (to trust), which also gave us abide, abode, fiancé, affidavit, confide, confident, defiance, fidelity, defy, and infidel. Earliest documented use: 1598.
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DIFFIDONT - and D if I do, too...
DAFFIDENT - One of the flowers in by bouquet is damaged, but I don't want to make a fuss (compare LACKADAISICAL)
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DOFFIDENT – Take it off and be recognized.
DAFFIDENT – 2. Scarce as duck's teeth.
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VIRULENT
PRONUNCIATION: (VIR-yuh-luhnt, -uh-)
MEANING: adjective
1. Bitterly hostile.
2. Highly infective.
3. Extremely dangerous.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin virus (poison). Earliest documented use: 1400.
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[Are we sure? I thought it had something to do with vir, meaning "man," as in "virile".}
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VIRUSENT - a sub-cellular microorganism afflicting Tolkien's tree creatures
MIRULENT - that Russian Space Station I borrowed from you a while back
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CONVIVIAL
PRONUNCIATION: (kuhn-VIV-ee-uhl)
MEANING: adjective: Friendly; sociable; cheerful; jovial.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin convivium (feast), from con- (with) + vivere (to live). Earliest documented use: 1669.
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ORGULOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (OR-gyuh-luhs)
MEANING: adjective: Haughty.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French orguill (pride). Earliest documented use: 1275.
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OREGULOUS - a pizza with too much herb sprinkled on it
ORGULOTUS - the pride of Yoga
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Greek-mythology-derived words? This is going to be one tough week!
ODYSSEY
PRONUNCIATION: (AH-duh-see)
MEANING: noun: A long eventful journey or experience.
ETYMOLOGY: After Odysseus, whose 10-year wandering after the fall of Troy is described in Homer's epic poem, the Odyssey. Earliest documented use: 1886.
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CODYSSEY - Buffalo Bill wandered around the Old West for ten eventful years before reaching home
ODYSSKY - half Irish, half Polish
GODYSSEY - like a female deity; compare ODYSSHEY
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ODDYSSEY – 1. A long peculiar journey.
2. A journey that is uneventful at stops two, four, six, eight,…
OLDYSSEY – Same endless sh**, different day.
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Good to have you along, T - it's hard for one person to keep this up all by hisself.
I liked the onethreefiveyssey !
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CIMMERIAN
PRONUNCIATION: (si-MIR-ee-uhn)
MEANING: adjective: Very dark or gloomy.
ETYMOLOGY: After Cimmerians, a mythical people described in Homer's Odyssey, who lived in perpetual darkness at the entrance of Hades. The historical Cimmerians, who lived in Crimea, were unrelated. Earliest documented use: 1594.
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C-IMMERSIAN - a believer that the only valid baptism is in the ocean
CIMMELIANS - a mythical people who changed their skin color to blend in perfectly with their surroundings (pronounced with a hard C)
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I've been been otherwise busy, with rehearsals and performances of Les Misérables for the past several weeks, one more rehearsal and four more performances this week. Hope to be more active here again. Peter 
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Fun! Vive les gendarmes!
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NARCISSIST
PRONUNCIATION: (NAHR-si-sist)
MEANING: noun: Someone with excessive self-interest or self-love.
ETYMOLOGY: In Greek mythology, Narcissus was a hunter and a young man of exceptional beauty. He spurned the nymph Echo. One day he saw his reflection in water and fell in love with himself. Not realizing it was himself and unable to leave, he eventually died. Earliest documented use: 1917.
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NARCASSIST - a spy planted by the DEA
ANARCISSIST - someone who wants to topple the government, so there'll be no interference with his right to gaze raptly at his reflection in the water
NARCINSIST - now you see why they call him "pusher"
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ATLAS
PRONUNCIATION: (AT-luhs)
MEANING: noun:
1. A person who supports a great burden.
2. A book of maps, charts, tables, plates, etc.
3. The top vertebra of the backbone, which supports the skull.
4. A size of drawing paper 26x33 or 26x34 inches.
5. An architectural column in the shape of a man. (Plural: atlantes. Another word for this is telamon. The female equivalent is caryatid.)
ETYMOLOGY: After Atlas, a Titan in Greek mythology, who was condemned by Zeus to support the heavens. A book of maps is called an atlas because early books of this kind depicted Atlas on the cover holding the earth on his shoulders. Earliest documented use: 1589.
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ANTLAS - a deer's horns, as described by a Bostonian
ATTAS - a quadripedal fighting machine, designed by a dyslexic Star Wars illustrator
ATLA - where my flight to Hollywood is arriving (see also ATLAX)
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ALLAS - EVERYTHING sucks.
ATLAB - Finally, test results.
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