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APOPLECTIC
PRONUNCIATION: (ap-uh-PLEK-tik)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Extremely angry.
2. Relating to or affected by apoplexy (stroke).
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin apoplecticus, from Greek apoplektikos (relating to a stroke), from apoplessein (to disable by a stroke). Ultimately from the Indo-European root plak- (to strike), which also gave us plague, plankton, fling, and complain. Earliest documented use: 1625.
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APPLECTIC - can't read the instructions on my little downloaded smartphone program
MAPOPLECTIC - @#$%^"# navigation program directed me straight into a swamp!
AMPOPLECTIC - all of a sudden the power went out
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APOPELECTIC when a pope can't make a decision.
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APOPELECTIC when a pope can't make a decision. - interregnum at the Vatican ?
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Could definitely apply
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JAUNDICEDPRONUNCIATION: (JAHN-dist) MEANING: adjective: 1. Exhibiting prejudice from envy or resentment. 2. Having jaundice: a disease that makes the skin, white of the eyes, etc., to be yellow, caused by an increase of bile pigments in the blood. ETYMOLOGY: from Old French jaunice (yellowness), from jaune (yellow), from Latin galbinus (yellowish), from galbus (yellow). Earliest documented use: 1640. __________________________ FAUNDICED - showing the symptoms of a Pandemic JAUNDICTED - subjected to inflammatory discussion by a yellow journalist JAUNEDICED - cut into tiny little yellow cubes, viz.  (Well,sorta. Do you like this one better?)
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FAUNDICID(E) - murder of a faun
(please excuse extra letter)
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METASTASIZE
PRONUNCIATION: (muh-TAS-tuh-syz)
MEANING: verb intr.
1. To spread or escalate in an undesirable manner.
2. (Of a cancer) To spread to other parts of the body.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin metastasis (transition), from Greek methistanai (to change), from meta- (beyond) + histanai (to set). Earliest documented use: 1907.
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METASTASEIZE - Colonialism gone wild
METESTASIZE - I should try one on and see how it fits (pron. "me-test-a-size")
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SCABROUS
PRONUNCIATION: (SKAB-ruhs)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Rough: having small raised dots or scales.
2. Salacious.
3. Difficult to deal with; knotty.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin scaber (rough). Earliest documented use: 1585
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SCARBROUS - a fair source of parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
CABROUS - Ubereal
SABROUS - like a dance popularized by Aram Katchaturian in his Gayne Ballet *
*Edit: These days they seem to prefer it be spelled "Khachaturian." Sigh.
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NIMRODPRONUNCIATION: (NIM-rod) MEANING: noun: 1. A stupid person. 2. A hunter. ETYMOLOGY: In the Bible, Nimrod was a hunter and Noah’s great-grandson. It’s not clear how the sense of the word transferred from a hunter to a stupid person, but the new sense was popularized in the Bugs Bunny cartoons when Bugs Bunny called rabbit-hunting Elmer Fudd as “Poor little Nimrod”. Earliest documented use for sense 1: 1933, for sense 2: 1623. Even earlier, the first recorded use in English is from 1548, in a now-obsolete sense as a tyrant. _______________________ NIMROAD - what you drive on to visit the rats (well, I suppose technically there should be an H in it, too ) AIMROD - a sighting device to assist in pointing a moderately large telescope at its desired target
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