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COMFORTMENT solace in sorrow
----please, draw me a sheep----
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SOLICITUDE
PRONUNCIATION: (suh-LIS-i-tood, -tyood)
MEANING: noun: Care or concern for another.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin sollus (whole), ultimately from the Indo-European root sol- (whole), which brought us solid, salute, save, salvo, soldier, catholicity, salutary, and salubrious + citus, past participle of ciere (to arouse), ultimately from the Indo-European root kei- (to set in motion), which also gave us cinema, kinetic, excite, and resuscitate. Earliest documented use: 1412.
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SOLIDITUDE - impassiveness
SOLICITUNE - the piano-man's job in a bar
SOLICIDUDE - what a hooker does
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FRANKENFOORPRONUNCIATION: (FRANG-kuhn-food) MEANING: noun: Genetically modified food. ETYMOLOGY: From franken- (genetically modified), alluding to the artificially created Frankenstein’s monster. Earliest documented use: 1992. _______________________________ FRANKENFORD - the Edsel, if you were a GM stockholdr DRANKENFOOD - Jell-o (R) shots (recipe here, if you need it) FRANKENGOOD - ultra-hip declaration of approval
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PRETERNATURAL
PRONUNCIATION: (pree/pri-tuhr-NACH-uh-ruhl)
MEANING: adjective: Beyond what is natural or normal.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin praeter- (beyond, past) + naturam (nature). Earliest documented use: 1580.
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PREFERNATURAL - no genetically-modified crops for me ! *
PRETERNAURAL - the sound of the beach before the birds arrive
* (but...hasn't every hybrid formed by deliberate cross-pollination been "genetically modified" ? )
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PRETZERNATURAL – and so is the beer!
PETERNATURAL – Tromboniator's name at birth.
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LOGOMANIOAC
PRONUNCIATION: (lo-guh-MAY-nee-ak)
MEANING: noun: One who is obsessively interested in words.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek logo- (word) + -mania (excessive enthusiasm or craze). Earliest documented use: 1870.
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BLOGOMANIAC - (daffynitions WNFR*)
LOGOMINIAC - a person obsessed with short words
LOOMANIAC - Weavers Gone Wild
* = "we never finished reading"
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LOGMANIAC – Paul Bunyan
LOGOMANIOC – Trademark of Tapioca, Inc.
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PARTHENONGENESIS
PRONUNCIATION: (par-thuh-no-JEN-uh-sis)
MEANING: noun: Reproduction without fertilization.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek partheno- (without fertilization, maiden) + -genesis (creation). Earliest documented use: 1849.
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PARTHENON-GENESIS - D'ya think we might build a great big building in Rome with our spare time and extra slaves. People could come and pray to Athena. (Not to be confused with PARTHE-NONGENESIS - Nah, it's probably just a waste of money, and they'll only tear it down in a couple of years anyway....)
PART-HEMOGENESIS - bone marrow that makes only red cells, not white cells or platelets
PARTHENOGENERIS - Ellen's pregnant!
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left out the spermatophytes! -- the four phyla of the Plant kingdom)
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BRYOLOGY
PRONUNCIATION: (bry-OL-uh-jee)
MEANING: noun: The branch of botany that deals with mosses, liverworts, and hornworts.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek bryo- (moss) + -logy (study). Earliest documented use: 1863.
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EBRYOLOGY - virtual genetic engineeering
BRIOLOGY - the study of vigor
BRYLOGY - the study of hair creem, or, My hair slickener is getting lazy
BERYOLOGY the study of gems, esp. those containing the metal with Atomic No. 4
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MODUS OPERANDI
PRONUNCIATION: (MOH-duhs op-uh-RAN-dee)
MEANING: noun: A particular way of doing something, especially a person’s typical mode of operation.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin modus operandi, from modus (mode) + operari (to work). Earliest documented use: 1654.
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MODUS OPERA AND I - Did you see Carmen yesterday? I'm in the chorus, as usual
MODS OPERANDI - how GenerationYers act
MODUS SPERANDI - a hopeful approach to life
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PER SE
PRONUNCIATION: (puhr SAY)
MEANING: adverb: In or by itself; intrinsically.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin per se, translation of Greek kath auto. Earliest documented use: 1505. Perse is something different.
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PER SHE - according to my wife
PERSEU - a singular fellow who killed the Gorgon Medusa
PER SEE - how a voyeur pays
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PAR SE (Latin) to conjugate or decline
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EX POST
PRONUNCIATION: (eks POST)
MEANING:
adjective: Based on past events; actual, rather than predicted.
adverb: Retrospectively.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin ex (from) + post (after). Earliest documented use: 1937.
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EX POSH - lost everything in the Stock Market
EX PEST -
1. my former spouse is becoming a nuisance
2. Quick, Henry, the Flit ! (YCLIU)
EN POST - the check is in the mail
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BONA FIDE
PRONUNCIATION: (BOH-nuh fyd, FY-dee)
MEANING:
adjective: Genuine.
adverb: In good faith; sincerely.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin bonus (good) + fides (faith). Earliest documented use: 1542.
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BONA FIRE - an excited community conflagration in Rome
BONG FIDE - good weed
BONA FIDO - what you throw to the dog for good behavior
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BONA FIFE - Musical instrument sometimes known as a radial flute.
BONA FIXE - Excellent narcotics.
BOTAFIDE - Describing wine that has been bottled in leather.
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PER CONTRA
PRONUNCIATION: (per KON-truh)
MEANING:
adverb: On the contrary
noun: The opposite side.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin per (per) + contra (against). Earliest documented use: 1554.
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PERCO NRA - oxycodone for gun enthusiasts
PERI CONTRA - homophobic (doesn't like fairies)
PECCONTRA - a small sin against something-or-other
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PER CONTRAP – According to our agreement (which, you will find, it is impossible to get out of)
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PARASTATAL
PRONUNCIATION: (par-uh-STAYT-l)
MEANING:
noun: A company or agency owned wholly or partly by the government.
adjective: Relating to such an organization.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek para- (beside) + state, from Latin status (condition). Earliest documented use: 1944.
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TARASTATAL - How's the plantation doing, Scarlett?
PAPASTATAL - pertaining to the Fatherland
PARASTANAL - adjacent to Tin on the Periodic Table of the Elements, like Antimony, Indium, Germanium, or Lead
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PARASTRATAL - Referring to one or both of the castes on either side of us, unless we happen to be in the the very highest or very lowest, in which case just the one.
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DEFERVESCENCE
PRONUNCIATION: (dee-fuhr-VES-uhns)
MEANING: noun: The abatement of a fever.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin de- (away from) + fervere (to boil, to be hot). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bhreu- (to boil or to bubble), which is also the source of brew, bread, broth, braise, brood, breed, barmy, and perfervid. Earliest documented use: 1721.
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DETERVESCENCE - apply a surfactant and avoid the bubbles
DECERVESCENCE - emptying your glass of Dos Equis cerveza
DEFERVESCENE - reduce the emotional overlay in a confrontation
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I can't think of a good "U" word - do you s'pose Friday's word might be SYZYGY ?
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IMPRIMIS
PRONUNCIATION: (im-PRY-mis, -PREE-)
MEANING: adverb: In the first place.
ETYMOLOGY: From contraction of Latin phrase in primis (among the first), from in (among) and primus (first). The word was originally used to introduce the first of a number of articles in a list, such as a will, an inventory, etc. Earliest documented use: 1465.
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JIMPRIMIS - King James the First
IMIPRIMIS - old tricyclic anti-depressent brand name that never caught on
IMPIRIMIS - Hello, Thisbe!
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POLTROON
PRONUNCIATION: (pol-TROON)
MEANING: noun: An utter coward.
ETYMOLOGY: From French poltron (coward), from Italian poltrone (lazy person), from Latin pullus (young animal). Ultimately from the Indo-European root pau- (few, little), which is also the source of few, foal, filly, pony, poor, pauper, poco, and catchpole. Earliest documented use: 1529.
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POLTOON - a political cartoon, like Doonesbury
POLTROOP - bussed-in voters
POLTRODON - a small dinosaur with teeth like a chicken's
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POLTRON - subatomic particle with distinct north and south.
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TUMULUS
PRONUNCIATION: (TOO-myuh-luhs, TYOO-)
MEANING: noun:
1. A mound of earth placed over prehistoric tombs. Also known as a barrow.
2. A dome-shaped swelling formed in cooling lava.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin tumere (to swell). Earliest documented use: 1686.
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RUMULUS - the founder of Rome who liked to drink
TUMBULUS - acrobatic
TUMULUST - the state of arousal accompanying an erection
TUTULUS - a tiny Pharaoh
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(sorry, the list started shorter, but it just grew and grew...)
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TUM-U-LES - Brand of weight-loss pill.
TUMULUSH - Beer belly.
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FUMULUS - a giant cursing
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CLERIHEW
PRONUNCIATION: (KLER-uh-hyoo)
MEANING: noun: A humorous, pseudo-biographical verse of four lines of uneven length, with the rhyming scheme AABB, and the first line containing the name of the subject.
ETYMOLOGY: After writer Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956), who originated it. Earliest documented use: 1928. Here is one of his clerihews:
Sir Christopher Wren
Said, “I am going to dine with some men.
If anyone calls
Say I am designing St. Paul’s.”
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CHERIHEW - I cannot tell a lie, Fathler, I did cut down the tree.
CLERIHEM - to shorten priestly robes
CLERIHEE - half of a chuckle, upon reading a humorous short verse with lines of uneven length
(see also CLERIHAW)
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CLEFIHEW - I'm sticking with the bass - can't read the pesky treble stuff.
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EPIGRAM
PRONUNCIATION: (EP-i-gram)
MEANING: noun: A short witty saying, often in verse.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin epigramma, from Greek epigramma, from epigraphein (to write, inscribe), from epi- (upon, after) + graphein (to write). Other words originating from the same root are graphite, paragraph, program, and topography. Earliest documented use: 1552.
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EPIGLAM - Beauty is only skin deep
EPI-RAM - a Shofar (ram's horn)
PI-GRAM - a message sent by wire next Saturday morning at 9:26 (that'd be 3/14/15 9:26...)
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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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