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MYTHOMOLE - The "abominable snowman-like" mole in my back
yard. Must be a gopher. His tracks are virtual mounds of epic
proportions, now frozen and I trip over them.
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LIBERTINE
PRONUNCIATION: (LIB-uhr-teen)
MEANING:
noun: A person who is morally unrestrained.
adjective: Unrestrained by conventions or morality.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin libertinus (freedman), from liber (free). Ultimately from the Indo-European root leudh- (to mount up or grow), which also gave us liberty, livery, and deliver. Earliest documented use: 1384.
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GLIBERTINE - a smooth-talking Don Juan
LIBORTINE - playing fast and loose with currency transactions
LABORTINE - the ultimate status of a pregnant adolescent (compare ABORTINE, a formerly-pregnant adolescent)
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LIMBERTINE – A person who is morally unrestrained in any position.
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HOMUNCULUS
PRONUNCIATION: (huh-MUHNG-kyuh-luhs, HO-)
MEANING: noun:
1. A diminutive human being.
2. A fully formed, miniature human being that was earlier believed to be present in a sperm or an egg.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin homunculus (little man), diminutive of ho-mo* (man). Ultimately from the Indo-European root dhghem- (earth), which also gave us allochthonous, autochthonous, chameleonic, chthonic, disinter, and inhume. Earliest documented use: 1656.
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ROMUNCULUS - a tiny model of an Italian city on the Tiber river, small enough to build in a day
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And as an aside - does anyone else find it strange that in Latin, to go from "-US" to "-I" is to change from singular to plural, but in English "US" to "I" changes plural to singular?
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HEMUNCULUS - A miniskirt. HUMUNCULUS - Vastly, immensely small does anyone else find it strange that in Latin, to go from "-US" to "-I" is to change from singular to plural, but in English "US" to "I" changes plural to singular? Now I do!
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Maybe we should invoke the mathematical-logic concept that "-" means "not". Then we can say that -I means "not I", and -US means "not US", and we've changed singular to plural and vice versa...so the equivalency to Latin is restored. Or something. 
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VACUOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (VAK-yoo-uhs)
MEANING: adjective: Lacking ideas or intelligence.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin vacuus (empty). Earliest documented use: 1651.
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VACUONS - subatomic particles with no charge, no spin, no mass, no velocity, no momentum, and taking up no space whatsoever
EVACUOUS - cathartic
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VAPUOUS – Full of the effluent of e-cigarettes.
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SCURVY
PRONUNCIATION: (SKUHR-vee)
MEANING:
adjective: Mean or contemptible.
noun: A disease caused by vitamin C deficiency, characterized by swollen and bleeding gums, bleeding under the skin, and weakness.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English scurf, probably from Old Norse. Ultimately from the Indo-European root sker- (cut), which also gave us decorticate, excoriate, hardscrabble, incarnadine, scrobiculate, and caruncle. Earliest documented use: 1529.
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SCURLY - sounding like a bagpipes
SMURVY - like an ever-so-cute blue dwarv
SCURVEY - winding (see also SWURVY)
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STURVY - -following one of the recipes which require you
to stir the concoction every couple of minutes or even 'constantly'.
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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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NIMBOD- contortionist, gymnast
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VIA DOLOROSAPRONUNCIATION: (VY/VEE-uh dol-uh-RO-suh) MEANING: noun: A distressing journey or experience. ETYMOLOGY: After the route believed to have been taken by Jesus on his way to Calvary. From Latin via dolorosa (painful path), from via (path) + dolor (pain). Earliest documented use: 1878. _________________________ VIAND OLOROSA - spoiled meat (you can tell because it smells) VIA DONOROSA - Sir Orosa lives on this street VIDOLO ROSA - a sweet red onion, not sharp at all, originally sold only in the Vidolo Farmers' Market in Toombs County, Georgia, USA (See here - it's not even Wikipedia!)
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Ta! I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream.
cup or cone?
Via dolo rosa a new flavor at Salt and Straw. Tastes like....chicken. lol.
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TIA DOLOROSA
aunt on mi madre's side.
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VLAD OLOROSA - Also known as Vlad the Inhaler.
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a challenge to symbicort?
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SCAPEGOAT
PRONUNCIATION: (SKAYP-goht)
MEANING:
noun: One blamed for another’s wrongdoing.
verb tr.: To blame someone for another’s wrongdoing.
ETYMOLOGY: As sometimes happens with ancient books, this term arose as a misreading of a word as Hebrew ’ez ’ozel (goat that departs) for what was, in fact, the proper noun Azazel, apparently a name for a demon. The explanation given in Leviticus 16:8 is that one casts one’s sins on a goat and lets it escape into the wilderness. Earliest documented use: 1530.
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SCAREGOAT - a mannikin meant to frighten other animals out of the vegetable patch
SCAPEMOAT - a hybrid protective feature surrounding a castle, meant to help the inhabitants swim away
SCAPEGOAL - Pete Carroll, at least this week
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SCAPEBOAT – A faster, drier means of using scapemoat.
SCAPEGOA – The vista of India's smallest state.
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SCAPEGOAD -urging escape.
Batman fought Azazel a number of times.
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GETHSEMANE
PRONUNCIATION: (geth-SEM-uh-nee)
MEANING: noun: An instance or a place of suffering.
ETYMOLOGY: In the New Testament, Gethsemane was a garden near the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, and the scene of Jesus’s agony and betrayal. Via Latin and Greek from Aramaic gat samne (oil press). Earliest documented use: 1901.
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GETS E-MANE - grows a lot of electronic hair on the head and neck
METH SEMANE - Amphetamine Week in Paris
GET HISEMANE - be awarded the trophy for "Best College Football player for the Year"
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SAMARITANPRONUNCIATION: (suh-MAIR-i-tn) MEANING: noun: A person who voluntarily helps others in distress. Also used as: good Samaritan. ETYMOLOGY: From the parable of the Good Samaritan in Luke 10:30-37 in the New Testament where a Samaritan stopped to help a man who had been injured and robbed, while others passed by. The word Samaritan is from Latin Samaritanus (a resident of Samaria), ultimately from Greek Samareia, Samaria. Earliest documented use: 1000. _______________________________ SAMARIAN - one who gives recapitulations of what has gone before SAMOARIAN - a devotee of a confection made from toasted marshmallows, chocolate, and Graham crackers (see recipe)
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EXORDIUM
PRONUNCIATION: (ig/eg-ZOR-dee-uhm, ik-SOR-)
MEANING: noun: The beginning or introductory part of anything, especially of a discourse, treatise, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin ex- (out, from) + ordiri (to begin). Earliest documented use: 1531.
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EXORCIUM - the expulsion of demons
EXFORDIUM - just can't spend that kind of money on it any more...
EXORADIUM - the "skin" of radium that accumulates on the outside of pellets of Uranium as they slowly undergo radioactive decay
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TEXORDIUM-Texans denying there are 49 other states.
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EXODIUM – 1.Detestation of one's former partner. 2. On the other hand, maybe (s)he's not so bad after all.
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RECRUDESCENCE
PRONUNCIATION: (ree-kroo-DES-uhns)
MEANING: noun: A renewed activity after a period of dormancy.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin recrudescere (to become raw again), from re- (again) + crudescere (to get worse), from crudus (raw). Earliest documented use: 1665.
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REBRUDESCENCE - Eau de Twice-Perked Coffee
RECRUDESCENE - about that gross part of the movie
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RECRUDESCIENCE – Concerning the inclusion of opinion and sloppy technique in the research data.
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OPPROBRIUM
PRONUNCIATION: (uh-PRO-bree-uhm)
MEANING: noun:
1. Strong criticism.
2. Public disgrace
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin opprobrium (reproach), from ob- (against) + probrum (infamy, reproach). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bher- (to carry), which also gave us bear, birth, barrow, burden, fertile, transfer, offer, suffer, euphoria, and metaphor. Earliest documented use: 1656.
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COPPROBRIUM - what's going on in Ferguson, MO these days
OPPROBARIUM - in favor of GI X-ray studies with contrast material
COPPR O'BRIUM - one member of the Dublin police force
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COMPORTMENT
PRONUNCIATION: (kuhm-PORT-muhnt)
MEANING: noun: Behavior; demeanor; bearing.
ETYMOLOGY: From French comportement (behavior), from comporter (to bear), from Latin comportare (to transport), from com- (with) + portare (to carry). Ultimately from the Indo-European root per- (to lead, pass over), which also gave us support, petroleum, sport, passport, colporteur, rapporteur, deportment, Swedish fartlek, Norwegian fjord, and Sanskrit parvat (mountain). Earliest documented use: 1605.
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COMPORTMEN - those who would teach you how to behave in polite society; style coaches
OOMPORTMENT - carrying yourslf like a brass band
COMPOSTMENT - the manufacture of organic fertilizer
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COMPOTMENT – a small enclosure or recess in a larger structure, often covered by a door or lid, in which to secure marijuana.
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