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PREPREHEND - the ultimate in Thought Police: scolding you for something before you even think of doing it...
(I'll be AFthisK for the next few days too - it's going to feel a bit strange but I'm sure you'll get along fine without me...)
Yessir, WD, Your "PREPREHEND" will be a hard one to match. And besides, I can amuse myself for a few days by trying to decipher "AFthisK". 
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gravitas
PRONUNCIATION: (GRAV-i-tas)
MEANING:
noun: Seriousness, dignity, or weightiness.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin gravis (serious). Earliest documented use: 1924.
USAGE:
"To some early critics, Mr. Büsser's playful choice lacked gravitas."
Victoria Gomelsky; Iconic Names for Iconic Watches; The New York Times; Feb 24, 2014.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
I cannot stress often enough that what science is all about is not proving things to be true but proving them to be false. -Lawrence M. Krauss, theoretical physicist (b. 1954)
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GRAVITASK - a chore of utmost import to mankind's understanding of everything i.e. since no one has ever seen a wave or a particle it is only by faith that we conceptualize the existence of matter.
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languid
PRONUNCIATION:(LANG-gwid)
MEANING:
adjective:
1. Lacking vigor or vitality.
2. Lacking interest.
3. Pleasantly lazy and calm.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin languere (to languish). Earliest documented use: 1595.
USAGE:
"Tahiti today is not the calm South Seas paradise depicted in Paul Gauguin's paintings of languid Polynesian women."
South Sea Bubble; The Economist (London, UK); Nov 11, 2004.
[See more usage examples of languid in Vocabulary.com's dictionary]
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known. -Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)
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LANGUILD - a cult of lazy monks
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ELANGUID (ee LAN gwid) - the opposite of being languid
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LANGUIDE - the pleasant Polynesian girl who guides you to all the best bars on the island.
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SLANGUID - the overuse of slang words by a someone who thinks that he is hip, but what he really is, is lazy.
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ANGUID LIZARDS:
1) a small family of useful lizards that only eat slugs and bugs.
2) a human being with the same traits.
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perfuse
PRONUNCIATION: (puhr-FYOOZ)
MEANING:
verb tr.:
1. To spread over as a liquid, color, light, aroma, etc.
2. To force a liquid, such as blood, through an organ or tissue.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin perfundere (to drench), from per- (through) + fundere (to pour). Ultimately from the Indo-European root gheu- (to pour), which is also the source of funnel, font, fuse, diffuse, gust, gush, geyser, and infundibuliform. Earliest documented use: 1425.
USAGE:
"The heady aroma of strong coffee perfused the cozy kitchen."
Olivia Cunning; Hot Ticket; Sourcebooks; 2013.
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SERFUSE - items set aside for use by serfs only.
Examples: hoe, rake, shovel, etc.
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HERFUSE - to hefuse means "NO"; to herfuse means "maybe".
Or vice versa.
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PELFUSE - how you spend your ill-gotten gains after a nefarious caper
PERFUS - what they'll do if they find us
PEROUSE - an episode of nocturia
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Isn't that what Jack Nicholson said after axing the door?
Isn't that what Jack Nicholson said after axing the door?
Isn't that what Jack Nicholson said after axing the door?
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noesis
PRONUNCIATION:(no-EE-sis)
MEANING:
noun:
1. Cognition; perception.
2. The exercise of reason.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek noesis (thought), from noein (to think, to perceive), from nous (mind). Earliest documented use: 1881.
USAGE:
"The noesis of the fact that tigers roamed these areas since there were no boundaries, nor fences in this forest, didn't jab much at me."
Vishal Gupta; A Bittersweet Nostalgia; Strategic Book Publishing; 2012.
"In an attempt to recollect the former few days, flashes of noesis pervaded my concentration."
Jane E. Hill; So, Here I Stand; AuthorHouse; 2010.
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A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. -Ben Hecht, screenwriter, playwright, novelist, director, and producer.
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KNOESIS - the perception that you know something when you don't
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NOEXIS - the theme of a Sartrirical play
NOHESIS - the theme of an entire genre of Japanese play
NOASIS - We're never gonna get out of the desert alive!
NOMESIS - 1. an anti-nausea medicine; 2. my relative in Alaska
NOPESIS - refusing to go along with your sister (see also NOASIS)
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MOESIS - the exercise of reason by The Three Stooges
Examples:
Curly: "I don't see a single cow. I don't even see a married one."
Moe: Let's do the Elevator Dance.
Curly: I don't know how.
Moe: Fathead! There are no steps.[slap]
Curly:(screaming) I CAN'T SEE! I CAN'T SEE!
Moe: Why can't you see, Fathead?
Curly: My eyes are shut.
Moe: [SLAP][SLAP][SLAP]
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sulfurous or sulphurous
PRONUNCIATION: (SUHL-fuhr-uhs, suhl-FYOOR-uhs)
MEANING:
adjective:
1. Relating to or resembling sulfur.
2. Pale yellow.
3. Fiery; hellish.
4. Hot-tempered.
5. Profane, blasphemous.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin sulfur. Earliest documented use: 1530.
USAGE:
"And like a screeching harpy screaming up from the sulfurous depths of Hell, Kim Kardashian has sensed our happiness and seeks to destroy it..."
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. -Thomas Hardy, novelist and poet (1840-1928)
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SULFURIOUS - to be mad as Hell at folks in Heaven.
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SULFUROUT - Get those rotten eggs out of here !
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catalyst
PRONUNCIATION: (KAT-uh-list)
MEANING:
noun
1. A substance that speeds up a chemical reaction without changing itself.
2. Someone or something that causes an event or change to happen.
ETYMOLOGY:
Via Latin, from Greek katalusis, from kataluein (to dissolve), from kata- (down) + luein (loosen). Ultimately from the Indo-European root leu- (to loosen, divide), which is also the source of forlorn, lag, loss, solve, analysis, and resolute. Earliest documented use: 1902.
USAGE:
"Doctoroff had seen how the Games served as a growth catalyst for host cities -- Tokyo expanded its subway system, Atlanta transformed its downtown."
Ken Auletta; After Bloomberg; The New Yorker; Aug 26, 2013.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. -Allen Ginsberg said in his book "Madness Sells". (1926-1997)
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CAVALYST - a caver who instigates others to go down while he remains on top
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CATALOST - nobody can find my herd since they stampeded!
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FULMINATE
PRONUNCIATION: (FUHL-muh-nayt, FOOL-, -mih-)
MEANING:
noun: An explosive salt of fulminic acid.
verb tr., intr.: 1. To explode or to cause to explode. 2. To issue denunciations.
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FULLINATE - this flower is completely fertilized; no more bees, please!
FULTINATE - the new ruler of Oman has a speech impediment and nobody dares to tell him
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FULMINUTE - to fully experence every second of life by dancing barefoot on hot coals for a full minute. ()
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ACIDIC
PRONUNCIATION: (uh-SID-ik)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Relating to or containing acid.
2. Having a sour or sharp taste.
3. Bitter or cutting (e.g. a remark).
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin acidus (sour), from acere (to be sour). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ak- (sharp), which is also the source of acrid, vinegar, acute, edge, hammer, heaven, eager, oxygen, and mediocre. Earliest documented use: 1868.
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ACIDISC - a Frisbee painted with a psychedelic pattern; watching it spin after you throw it will disrupt your thought processes
ACIDICK - what you get when you cross a donkey with a white whale
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LACIDIC - a tree imbued with a secretion of the female lac bug which when processed becomes shellac
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brimstone
PRONUNCIATION:(BRIM-stohn)
MEANING: noun:
1. Sulfur.
2. Fiery rhetoric, especially one filled with references to hell.
3. An ill-tempered, overbearing woman.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Old English brynstan, from brinnen (to burn) + stan (stone). Earliest documented use: 1300.
NOTES:
The Bible has many references to fire and brimstone pointing to burning in hell. Accordingly, the term "fire and brimstone" is used to refer to speech involving strong language, condemnation, damnation, etc., for example: a fire and brimstone preacher.
USAGE:
"One of the things that makes Alan Clark so compelling a writer is the whiff of brimstone that comes off him, what Mr Cornwell describes as his 'potential for evil'."
Old Nick Rides Again; The Economist (London, UK); Oct 1, 2009.
"Under all that fire and brimstone, you're an old softy at heart."
Michael Morpurgo; War Horse; Scholastic; 2010.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The illusion which exalts us is dearer to us than ten thousand truths. -Aleksandr Pushkin, poet, novelist, playwright (1799-1837)
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BRIMSTORE - place to go for the best prices on fire and brim
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BRIESTONE - a hunk of soft cheese that's been left unnoticed so long it turned rock hard
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RIMSTONE - Rimstone dams form where there is some gradient, and hence flow, over the edge of a pool. Crystallization begins to occur at the air/water/rock interface. The turbulence caused by flow over the edge of the building dam may contribute to the outgassing or loss of carbon dioxide from water, and result in precipitation of mineral on this edge.
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Gee, I thought a RIMSTONE was the thing that deflected your golf ball just before it could fall into the cup...
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Gee, I thought a RIMSTONE was the thing that deflected your golf ball just before it could fall into the cup...
rolling drum, cymbals clash... RIMSHOT! 
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ANTELOPE - to run off with your mothers sister
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dispositive
PRONUNCIATION:(dis-POZ-i-tiv)
MEANING:
adjective: Relating to or bringing about the settlement of a case.
ETYMOLOGY:
From dispose, from Old French disposer, from Latin disponere (to arrange), from dis- (apart) + ponere (to put). Ultimately from the Indo-European root apo- (off or away), which is also the source of pose, apposite, after, off, awkward, post, puny, apposite, and apropos. Earliest documented use: 1483.
USAGE:
"The Justice Department subsequently asked the National Academy of Sciences to re-examine the Dictabelt evidence and it concluded it was not dispositive, which naturally led to years of debate among forensic acoustic experts."
Ron Rosenbaum; Seeing Zapruder; Smithsonian (Washington, DC); Oct 2013.
"Marilyn Yalom supplements her summaries of love in French culture with lively, if hardly dispositive, anecdotes from her own encounters with France and the French.
How the French Invented Love; The New Yorker; Feb 4, 2013.
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DISPOSILIVE - to resurrect a contention that was thought to be setttled
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DISCPOSITIVE - a round flattened anode
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DISPOSITIE - a diminutive used to diminish someone who disses your posit
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holograph
PRONUNCIATION: (HOL-uh-graf)
MEANING:
noun: 1. A document handwritten by its author.
adjective: 2 Handwritten by the author.
noun: 3. A hologram: a three-dimensional image created using laser.
ETYMOLOGY:
For 1, 2: Via Latin, from Greek holographos, from holos (whole) + -graphos (written). Earliest documented use: 1623.
For 3: From holography, which was coined from hologram on the pattern of photography, from Greek holos (whole). Earliest documented use: 1968
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SOLOGRAPH - a selfie taken without a partner
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HOLDGRAPH - The easel broke; you show the charts for my presentation
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OLDGRAPH - a selfie taken many years ago.
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HOLOGRAPE - the image of the source of fine beverages (makes non-alcoholic wine)
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HULAGRAPE - a fruit grown in Hawaii
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HOLYGRAPH - a contrived hockey stick graph that end-of-worlders cite as gospel that seas are rising, Earth is burning, and earthlings can only be saved by buying carbon credits from governments.
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