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CENTO
PRONUNCIATION: (SEN-to)
MEANING: noun: A literary work, especially a poem, composed of parts taken from works of other authors.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin cento (patchwork). Earliest documented use: 1605.
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SCENTO - the smell of _________ (you fill in the blank)
CENSTO - if it makes this, you can justify anything...
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LIMERICK
PRONUNCIATION: (LIM-uhr-ik)
MEANING: noun: A humorous, often risque, verse of three long (A) and two short (B) lines with the rhyme scheme AABBA.
ETYMOLOGY: After Limerick, a county in Ireland. The origin of the name of the verse is said to be from the refrain �Will you come up to Limerick?� sung after each set of extemporized verses popular at gatherings. Earliest documented use: 1896.
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GLIMERICK - the duration of an average sighting of the Loch Ness Monster; also, its appearance
LIVERICK - typical child's response to being served fried organ meat (with or without bacon)
LIMEDICK - the Green Whale
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SLIMERICK � Pile of peat.
LIMEROCK - Green gemstone composed of crystalline vitamine C.
LIMERISK � A very, VERY naughty verse.
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DOGGEREL
PRONUNCIATION: (DO-guhr-uhl, DOG-uhr-)
MEANING: noun:
1. Comic verse that is irregular in rhythm and in rhyme especially for burlesque or comic effect.
2. Trivial or bad poetry.
NOTES: Here�s poet John Skelton (c. 1463-1529) defending his doggerels:
For though my rhyme be ragged,
Tattered and jagged,
Rudely rain-beaten,
Rusty and moth-eaten,
If ye take well therewith,
It hath in it some pith.
ETYMOLOGY: Dogs have a bad rap in the language (see dog�s chance, dogsbody) and the word doggerel reflects that view. The word is apparently a diminutive of the word dog. Earliest documented use: 1405.
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DAGGEREL - (diminutive) a small dagger; a snickersnee
DODGEREL - the elevated subway line that brings you to Ebbets Field
DOGGEEL - perennial foe of catfish
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DOGGERE - Turn down the corners of the pages of a book of bad poetry.
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Epiham- hamspeak (QRS QRN) Epispam- canned epigram If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it. You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think. Edit by Jackie
May, I don't want to take anything away from what you did, but I got a notification that not only did your link to the image not show an image, it was so long that it made the screen go wide. I Copied your link to Google and got the image shown in my test post below, so I have deleted your long link and replaced it. If this is not the image you intended, I apologize. J. 
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ABSTENTIOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (abs-TEN-shus)
MEANING: adjective: Self-restraining, especially in eating or drinking.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin abstinere (to hold back), from ab- (away) + tenere (to hold). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ten- (to stretch), which also gave us tense, tenet, tendon, tent, tenor, tender, pretend, extend, tenure, tetanus, hypotenuse, pertinacious, detente, countenance, distend, extenuate, and tenable. Earliest documented use: 1839.
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ABSENTIOUS - chronically truant
NABSTENTIOUS - having a tendency to arrest suspects, with very weak evidence
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ARTERIOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (ahr-TIR-ee-uhs)
MEANING: adjective: Of or relating to the arteries or a main road or channel.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin arteria, from Greek arteria (windpipe, artery). Ultimately from the Indo-European root wer- (to raise or lift), which is also the source of air, aira, aura, and meteor. Earliest documented use: 1578.
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ALTERIOUS - defacing promissory notes
HARTERIOUS - staglike
ASTERIOUS - having no depth
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PLACENTIOUS
PRONUNCIATION:
(pla-SEN-shus)
MEANING: adjective: Pleasing or inclined to please.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin placentia (pleasantness), from placere (to please). Earliest documented use: 1661.
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PLACENTIOU - a Rumanian Candidate
PLACENTRIOUS - pertaining to the biological interface between a mother and her unborn child
PLACKENTIOUS - building up tartar (or so my dental hygeinist tells me)
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Doing a test: Edit: Huh -- every once in a while I can be good for something! 
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