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I've always liked 'cower', but I do like this better,
thanks to your always inciteful suggestions for the
inspiration.
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INTRACTABLE
PRONUNCIATION: (in-TRAK-tuh-buhl)
MEANING: adjective: Not easily handled, managed, or controlled.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin tractare (to handle), frequentative of trahere (draw). Earliest documented use: 1545.
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ENTR'ACTABLE - capable of being separated into two parts by an intermission
INTER.ACT.ABLE - and if that doesn't help we can just bury the whole show
INTRACTABILE - Sorry, but the only way you're going to get any relief is if we take out your gall bladder
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INTRATABLE – Arthur's knights keep it among themselves.
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LISSOM pr LISSIOME
PRONUNCIATION: (LIS-uhm)
MEANING: adjective: Agile; graceful.
ETYMOLOGY: Alteration of lithesome, from Old English lithe (flexible, mild) + -some (having a particular quality). Earliest documented use: 1800.
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BLISSOME - the sense of well-being that suffuses us upon contemplating a well-formed member of ones preferred gender
LASSOME - what the li'l dogie who won't run away is saying
LISTSOME - a likely consequence of taking on water, if you're a boat
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OS
PRONUNCIATION: (aws)
MEANING: noun:
1. A mouth or an orifice. [plural ora]
2. A bone. [plural ossa]
ETYMOLOGY:
For 1: From Latin os (mouth). Earliest documented use: 1859.
For 2: From Latin os (bone). Earliest documented use: 1400.
NOTES:
It also appears as an abbreviation in many fields, including
Chemistry: Os - symbol for the element osmium
Computing: OS - Operating System
Medicine: OS - left eye (from Latin oculus sinister)
Linguistics: OS - Old Saxon
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OZ:
1. a surgeon who got a TV show and started endorsing products of dubious value
2. abbreviation for "ounce"
3. magical land, site of many L. Frank Baum stories
4. vernacular for "Australia"
ON:
1. opposite of "off"
2. a debt of honor, in Japan
OB:
1. a physician who practices Obstetrics, delivering babies
2. an obligation (see ON above)
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OD – Just a little strange.
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OL not necessarily laughing
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