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Let's just give thanks he doesn't try "Gedankenexperiment" as the target word!
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SITZKRIEGPRONUNCIATION: (SITS-kreeg) MEANING: noun: A period of war marked by little or no active hostilities. ETYMOLOGY: Modeled after German blitzkrieg, from sitzen (to sit) + Krieg (war). Earliest documented use: 1940. NOTES: In Sep 1939, France and Britain declared war on Germany, but didn't launch a major ground offensive until the next year. This phase, from Sep 1939 to May 1940, came to be known as sitzkrieg or the sitting war. It has also been called by other names, such as the Phony War, the Twilight War, and the Bore War (a pun on Boer Wars). Sitzkrieg needs Sitzfleisch. ________________________________ SITZKLIEG - a spotlight so big you have to sit in a seat to use the controls (see AWAD June 2004, here ) SPITZKRIEG - spit-ball battle in der Gymnasium
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LEITMOTIF or LEITMOTIV
PRONUNCIATION: (LYT-mo-teef)
MEANING: noun: A recurrent theme in a piece of music or literature, situation, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From German Leitmotiv (lead motif), from leit- (leading) + Motiv (motive). Ultimately from the Indo-European root leit- (to go forth, to die), which also gave us lead, load, lode, and livelihood. Earliest documented use: 1937.
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NEITMOTIF - my recurring dreams are all recognizably similar
FLEITMOTIF - the airline is having an image makeover
LEIMOTIF - signature theme of the Hawaiian Islands
LEGITMOTIV - an alibi that stands up in court
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(I toyed with KINDERGARTEN --> KINDERGARMEN - my GPS locater is more benevolent)
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SLEITMOTIV constant rain and then snow and lake effects
in Buffalo NY.
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...so now for GEDANKENEXPERIMENT we can have
GEDANKE-EXPERIMENT - Let's have a community meal, both our colony and the indigenous folk, to show appreciation for our good fortune and our good harvest - and see if anything comes of it
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SOLON
And then he added, "It's been good to know ya!"
PRONUNCIATION: (SOH-luhn)
MEANING: noun:
1. A wise lawgiver.
2. A legislator.
ETYMOLOGY: After Solon (c. 638-558 BCE), an Athenian lawmaker who introduced political, economic, and moral reforms and revised the harsh code of laws established by Draco. Earliest documented use: 1631.
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NOLON - the Emperor's new hose
SOLOS - a set of Crab Canons for unaccompanied Achilles. They sound the same played forwards or backwards.
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MAZARINEPRONUNCIATION: (maz-uh-REEN, MAZ-uh-reen, -rin) MEANING: adjective: A deep, rich shade of blue. ETYMOLOGY: After either Cardinal Jules Mazarin (1602-1661) or his niece, Duchess Hortense Mancini (1646-1699). Why this color is associated with them is not entirely clear. Earliest documented use: 1684 ________________________________ MIZARINE - hiding inportant details in plain sight. After Mizar, the second star from the end of the Big Dipper's handle...which is (if your vision is good enough) a double star MANZARINE - like an apple MAZANINE - where Ma sits when she goes to the movies
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MAMARINE – What you might become after a stint at Paparris Island.
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PLATONIC
PRONUNCIATION: (pluh-TON-ik, play-)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Relating to Plato or his ideas.
2. Relating to a love free of sensual desire.
3. Confined to words or theories, and not leading to action.
ETYMOLOGY: After Greek philosopher Plato (c. 400 BCE). Earliest documented use: 1533.
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PELATONIC - undistinguished, lost amidst the throngs of the mediocre; see pelaton as used by bicyclists
PLUTONIC - the ultimate loss of status, as in being demoted from the smallest and slowest and coldest of a set of nine, to being thrown out of the group entirely...
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MAMARINE – What you might become after a stint at Paparris Island.  oughta be a way of working "paparazzi" in there too, somehow...
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TONTINE
PRONUNCIATION: (TON-teen, ton-TEEN)
MEANING: noun: A form of investment in which participants pool their money into a common fund and receive an annuity. Each person's share increases as members die until the last survivor takes the whole.
ETYMOLOGY: From French tontine. Named after Lorenzo Tonti, a Neapolitan banker, who started the scheme in France. Earliest documented use: 1765.
NOTES: A tontine was also used a way to raise money for the state, often for fighting wars, as the fund went to the crown after the last person died. Crown funding via crowdfunding. As there was a perverse incentive to hasten the demise of other members of a tontine to increase one's share, eventually it was made illegal. Tontine has been used as a plot device in many works of fiction
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TINTINE - a naive whose adventures were chronicled first in French comic strips and more recently a movie. Any wealth she garnered during her escapades went toward the wellbeing of her out-of-wedlock daughter, poignantly described by Victor Hugo
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MALTHUSIAN
PRONUNCIATION: (mal-THOO-zhuhn, -zee-uhn)
MEANING: adjective: Relating to the view that population increases faster than its means of subsistence resulting in disaster, unless population is checked by natural calamities or by people exercising control and having fewer children.
ETYMOLOGY: After economist and clergyman Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834), a proponent of this idea. Earliest documented use: 1805.
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MALT-HAUS-IAN - of or pertaining to a Bavarian brewery
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CORDATE
PRONUNCIATION: (KOR-dayt)
MEANING: adjective: Heart-shaped.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin cor (heart). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kerd- (heart), which also gave us cardiac, cordial, courage, record, concord, discord, and accord. Earliest documented use: 1651.
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CORDANTE (1) - the theme of The Divine Comedy
CORDARTE - Cupid's Arrow
CORDATA - EKG, echocardiogram, stuff like that
CORDANTE (2) - playing your heart out at the poker table
SCORDATE - So, how'd it go last weekend?
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AMANUENSIS
PRONUNCIATION: (uh-man-yoo-EN-sis)
MEANING: noun: A person employed to take dictation or to copy manuscripts.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin servus a manu (slave at hand[writing]), from manus (hand). Ultimately from the Indo-European root man- (hand), which also gave us manual, manage, maintain, manicure, maneuver, manufacture, manuscript, command, manque, legerdemain, manumit, and mortmain. Earliest documented use: 1619.
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WAMANUENSIS - Would you believe there was a time when the very thought of a female taking dictation or copying manuscripts could be the subject of feeble attempts at humor?!
AMANUNSIS - proud declaration to her sibling, by a pious novice home from the Convent for the first time
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LAMANUENSIS – Tibetan steno.
Yes, time to revisit Archie's archives.
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IMPEDIMENTA
PRONUNCIATION: (im-ped-uh-MEN-tuh)
MEANING: plural noun: Baggage, supplies, or equipment related to an activity or expedition, especially when regarded as slowing one's progress.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin, plural of impedimentum, from impedire (to impede), from im-/in- (in) + ped- (foot). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ped- (foot) which also gave us pedal, podium, octopus, impeach, antipodal, expediency, peccadillo (alluding to a stumble or fall), impeccable, and peccavi. Earliest documented use: 1600.
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IMPADIMENTA – Your apartment is really full of stuff, man.
IMPENIMENTA – Writer's block.
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IMPODIMENTA - over stuffed space capsule.
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IMMEDIMENTA – Right now, and I'm not kidding!
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IMPERIMENTA - you MUST think thusly
IMPEDIRENTA - You thought you could lease this apartment? Sorry, no Irish need apply
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SPLEEN
PRONUNCIATION: (spleen)
MEANING: noun:
1. An abdominal organ serving to clean blood.
2. Bad temper.
ETYMOLOGY: From French esplen, from Latin splen, from Greek splen. Earliest documented use: 1300.
NOTES: In earlier times it was believed that four humors controlled human behavior and an imbalance resulted in disease. According to this thinking, an excess of black bile secreted by the spleen resulted in melancholy or ill humor. Also, spleen was considered to be the seat of emotions. To vent one's spleen was to vent one's anger.
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an excess of black bile...resulted in melancholy
An interesting thought, that, since "melancholy" is exactly the Greek translation of "black bile:" melan- as in melanin or melanoma, and chole- as in cholecystitis = bile-sac-inflammation, i.e. of the gall bladder, which stores bile. Too much bile was also thought to cause cholera.
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SCLEEN - Arright, you can stop scrubbing it now
SPLAEN, pronounced "splane" -
1. verb: to make clear, as in "You don't have to splaen it to me any more..."
2. adjective: clear, as in "...It's splaen as day now!"
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MANSUETUDE
PRONUNCIATION: (MAN-swi-tood, -tyood)
MEANING: noun: Gentleness; meekness.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin mansuescere (to make tame: to accustom to handling), from manus (hand) + suescere (to become accustomed). Ultimately from the Indo-European root man- (hand), which is also the source of manual, manage, maintain, manicure, maneuver, manufacture, manuscript, command, manque, amanuensis, legerdemain, and mortmain
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MARSUETUDE - oxymoron: a meek god of war
MANSUEDUDE - one guy takes another guy to court
MANSETUDE - it's not just a house, it's a whole estate
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MANSUETUBE=death-defying slide in a water park
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JUGGERNAUT
PRONUNCIATION: (JUG-uhr-not)
MEANING: noun:
1. Anything requiring blind sacrifice.
2. A massive relentless force, person, institution, etc. that crushes everything in its path.
ETYMOLOGY: From Hindi jagannath (one of the titles Krishna, a Hindu god, has), from Sanskrit jagannath, from jagat (world) + nath (lord). A procession of Jagannath takes place each year at Puri, India. Devotees pull a huge cart carrying the deity. Some have been accidentally crushed under the wheels (or are said to have thrown themselves under them). Earliest documented use: 1638.
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JUGGLERNAUT - an entertainer who throws Indian clubs into the air and catches them again, all the while riding on a surfboard
JUGGERNUT - a fantastically devoted wind instrument player from the Ozarks
JUDGERNAUT - Prithee, do not impose your values upon that woman; she is not worthless.
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HUGGERNAUT - Fervid marine environmentalist, sometimes called a kelp-hugger.
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KLATSCH
PRONUNCIATION: (klach, klahch)
MEANING: noun: A casual gathering of people for conversation, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From German Klatsch (gossip). Earliest documented use: 1953. Also see kaffeeklatsch.
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KLUTSCH - what you use to shift gears when you drive for the Keystone Kops
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ONEIRIC
PRONUNCIATION: (oh-NY-rik)
MEANING: adjective: Of or relating to dreams; dreamy.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek oneiros (dream). Earliest documented use: 1859.
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ONEILIC - like the guy who wrote Long Day's Journey Into Night and other plays
ONEIDIC - pertaining to a New York Indian tribe, part of the Iroquois confederacy (or Kanonsionni in their own language)
ONEIRIS - a very small Spring garden
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UNEIRIC – having nothing to do with the ancestral home of the guy who wrote Long Day's Journey Into Night.
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SCANDENT
PRONUNCIATION: (SKAN-duhnt)
MEANING: adjective: Climbing or ascending.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin scandere (to climb). Ultimately from the Indo-European root skand- (to leap or climb), which also gave us ascend, descend, condescend, transcend, echelon, and scale. Earliest documented use: 1682.
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SCARDENT - poignant reminder of a long-ago duel between two men who loved the same fair maid
SANDENT - what you do before you patch it
SCANDONT - Regulations pertaining to Protected Health Information preclude our copying the Outside Hospital report into your Electronic Medical Record here
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ZYMOLOGY
PRONUNCIATION: (zy-MOL-uh-jee)
MEANING: noun: The science of fermentation.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek zym- (ferment) + -logy (science, study). Earliest documented use: 1753.
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AZYMOLOGY - the study of the works of Isaac Asimov, who in 1953 described in The Caves of Steel feeding the burgeoning world population with a yeast-based food he called "zymoveal"
ZYMOOGY - a fermented beverage made from cows' milk
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ZYMOOLOGY-akin to zymoogy, the science of milking cows before
fermenting it.
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ZYGOLOGY – the study of the mind and behavior of a newly-fertilized egg.
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PRONUNCIATION: (DOGZ chans)
MEANING: noun: A poor chance.
ETYMOLOGY: In modern times dogs may be pampered, but historically a dog's life wasn't much to bark about. Hence a dog's chance is a small chance. Earliest documented use: 1890.
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GENTLEMEN'S AGREEMENTPRONUNCIATION: (JEN-tl-manz uh-GREE-muhnt) MEANING: noun: An agreement that's based on honor and not legally binding. ETYMOLOGY: From the idea that a gentleman (a civilized man of good standing) will honor an agreement he has entered. Earliest documented use: 1821. ________________________________ De-emphasized by Anu is that the agreement often involved the unspoken understanding that you would not sell your house, or admit into your club, or whatever other activity you wanted to keep exclusive, any Jew, or Negro, or Catholic, or whatever other group you preferred not to associate with. The theme was explored at some length in the 1947 novel and movie by that name. See here. _________________________________ GENTLEMEN'S ARGUMENTPRONUNCIATION: (JEN-tl-manz uh-GREE-muhnt) MEANING: noun: A disagreement that's based on honor and not legally binding.
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CAT'S CRADLE
PRONUNCIATION: (kats kraydl)
MEANING: noun:
1. A children's game in which a string is wrapped around one player's hands in complex symmetrical patterns and transferred to another player's hands to form a different pattern. (video)
2. Something elaborate or intricate, especially when without an apparent purpose.
ETYMOLOGY: Of uncertain origin. Earliest documented use: 1768.
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CAW'S CRADLE - crow's nest.
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WHO'S WHO
PRONUNCIATION: (hooz hoo)
MEANING: noun
1. A reference work containing concise biographical sketches of well-known people.
2. Well-known people in a particular profession, region, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: The first Who's Who was published in the UK in 1849. Now the term is in wider use and there are thousands of specialized Who's Whos publications, for high school students, for Nebraskans, and for the dead (Who Was Who). There's even a Who's Who in Hell. Earliest documented use of the generic use of the term is from 1917.
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WHO'S WHOM - a compendium of pseudo-intellectuals, like the lady in Sinclair Lewis' Main Street who referred to the common folk as "wa pollwa" because she had once read the term "hoi polloi" and thought it was French
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WHO'S WHOA - The question that gives rise to the answer, "Whoa is me!"
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