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Agpie- pie used to transport vampire trappings; other ingredients include a deadly dose of garlic (Death at first bite) 
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DOTTEREL
PRONUNCIATION: (DOT-uhr-uhl)
MEANING: noun:
1. Any of various plovers breeding in mountainous areas.
2. Someone who is easily duped.
ETYMOLOGY: From dote (to be weak-minded from old age), from Middle English doten (to be foolish) + -rel (diminutive or pejorative suffix), as in doggerel and wastrel. The metaphorical sense of the word derives from the apparently unsuspecting nature of the bird. Earliest documented use: 1440.
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DONTEREL - Stop, Mr Flynn!
DOTTEREI - Pointillism, in Germany
GOTTEREL - how the German language sounds
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DOTterel- department of transportation flagged
Lotterel- salt of the earth
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AMBIT
PRONUNCIATION: (AM-bit)
MEANING: noun: Scope, range, limit, or boundary.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin ambitus (going around), from ambire (to go around), from ambi- (both, around) + ire (to go). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ei- (to go), which also gave us exit, transit, circuit, itinerary, obituary, adit, and arrant. Earliest documented use: 1398.
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AMBILT - completed in not just a day, but in a single morning. Unlike Rome.
AMFIT - a proclamation of one's excellent physical condition
AMOBIT - like he used to love, sorta, like, in Old Rome
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Feculate- bad breath feculate
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PECULATE
PRONUNCIATION: (PEK-yuh-layt)
MEANING: verb tr., intr.: To steal or misuse money or property entrusted to one’s care.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin pecu (cattle, money). Ultimately from the Indo-European root peku- (wealth), which also gave us fee, fief, fellow, peculiar, impecunious, and pecuniary. Earliest documented use: 1715.
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PERCULATE - mispronunciation of an old-style coffee pot
OPECULATE - the oil cartel missed a bond payment
PECULANTE - petty theft at the poker table
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RESUMPTIVE
PRONUNCIATION: (ri-ZUHMP-tiv)
MEANING: adjective: Tending to resume, repeat, or summarize.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin resumere (to resume), from re- (again) + sumere (to take). Earliest documented use: 1398.
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RESUMPTIRE - the doughnut spare in your trunk
RESUMATIVE - 1. permitting you to continue on (see RESUMPTIRE above);
2. You made a mistake, add 'em up again
ARESUMPTIVE - afflicted with Martian tuberculosis
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[video:youtube] https://youtu.be/I5Zk2vUmjpk[/video] Repumptive- adding air to your Jacko lantern, similar to a facelift.
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Relumptive- adding lumps to duchess potatoes
Resumptine- King Triton's trident used to part the ocean
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Uberous (YOO-buhr-uhs)- Cuberous- Charlie Brown  P.F. post find "It's hip to be square."
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UBEROUS
PRONUNCIATION: (YOO-buhr-uhs)
MEANING: adjective: Abundant; fruitful.
ETYMOLOGY: from Latin uber (rich, fruitful, abundant, etc.). Earliest documented use: 1624.
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BUBEROUS - plagued
UMBEROUS - shadowy
UBERONUS - the cross we all bear
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OLIOPRONUNCIATION: (OH-lee-oh) MEANING: noun: A miscellaneous collection of things, for example, a variety show. ETYMOLOGY: From Spanish olla (pot, stew), from Latin olla (pot). Earliest documented use: 1642. Also see olla podrida. _______________________________ OLLO -- a male earthenware jar OFIO -- pertaining to one of Jupiter's larger satellites (out of 67 known so far!) OIIO -- betcha didn't know 6 in binary is a palindrome!
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Oliyo- "O-Ee-Yah! Eoh-Ah!. The chant acts as a sort of audio inkblot."
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HOGEN-MOGENPRONUNCIATION: (HOH-guhn-moh-guhn) MEANING: noun: A person having or affecting high power. adjective: Powerful; grand. ETYMOLOGY: From Dutch hoogmogend (all powerful), from Hooge en Mogende (high and mighty), honorific for addressing States General (legislature) of the Netherlands. Earliest documented use: 1639. _________________________________ HOGEN-MOGEN - a sweet-wine-flavored ice cream, the antithesis of the complementary DOS-DAVID flavor HOGEN-MOVEN - the pigs are going into a different sty for the winter HOGER-MOGER - underhanded clandestine activity in the Hague ( worth reading if you've never come across Elliot Paul before)
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Toenapering- the precious toe ring, one to rule them all
Toenapering- a ring of Toenapers running amok
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TOENADERING
PRONUNCIATION: (TOO-nah-duhr-ing)
MEANING: noun: Establishing or reestablishing of cordial relations, especially between nations.
ETYMOLOGY: From Dutch toenadering (advance, approach), from toe (to) + nader (closer). Earliest documented use: 1920.
NOTES: The term is typically seen in South Africa, but it’s worth adopting everywhere. The French equivalent is rapprochement.
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TEENADERING - campaigning to improve safety on the golf course
TOENAGERING - a gang of adolescents with foot fetishes
TOKENADERING - a diplomatic ploy, in which a minority caucus agitates to pledge support to its allies, and then gives them a mere pittance
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POPPYCOCK PRONUNCIATION: (POP-ee-kok) MEANING: noun: Nonsense. ETYMOLOGY: From Dutch dialect pappekak (soft dung) or poppekak (doll’s excrement). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kakka-/kaka- (to defecate) which also gave us cacophony, cacography, and cucking stool. Earliest documented use: 1852. _____________________________ POPPYCOOK - Orville Riedenbacher's mascot POPPYCORK - be careful as you open the champagne bottle ! PROPPYCOCK - a pub for theater folk
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Poppylock- a useless lock with little to no value
Poppymock- beau- ootiful soo- oop
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SOOTERKIN
PRONUNCIATION: (SOO-tuhr-kin)
MEANING: noun:
1. A sweetheart or mistress.
2. An afterbirth formerly believed to be gotten by Dutch women by warming themselves on stoves.
3. Something imperfect or unsuccessful.
ETYMOLOGY: Apparently from Dutch zoet (sweet). Earliest documented use: 1530.
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SHOOTERKIN - Annie Oakley was my sister
SOOGERKIN - Sweet Pickles
SOOTHERKIN - Grandma makes everything all better
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Smooterkin- sweet home Alabama kin
w00terkin- the 1337 property room
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Poppylock- a useless lock with little to no value
Poppymock- beau- ootiful soo- oop Och = Dutch for Alas Poppycock inspired Alice in Wonderland. I pass the following images daily at school. I take credit for none. Oh, I guess, we just finished soups, too.   Can anyone figure out the reflected quote? Oliver Wendell Holmes... 
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Brattle- My way or the highway
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BRABBLE
PRONUNCIATION: (BRAB-uhl)
MEANING: verb intr.: To argue over petty matters.
ETYMOLOGY: From Middle Dutch brabbelen (to quarrel or jabber). Earliest documented use: 1500.
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BRIBBLE - a cloth tied loosely around Baby's neck to catch the drooling: a combination of "bib" and "dribble"
BRABIBLE - the Maidenform Handbook
BI-RABBLE - an undisciplined two-part group (like the US Congress)
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ANODYNE
PRONUNCIATION: (AN-uh-dyn)
MEANING:
adjective:
1. Relieving pain; soothing.
2. Bland or insipid: not likely to provoke or offend.
noun:
1. Something that soothes or comforts.
2. A medicine that relieves pain.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin anodynos, from Greek anodynos, from a- (not) + odyne (pain). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ed- (to eat, to bite), which also gave us edible, comestible, obese, etch, fret, postprandial, esurient, and edacity. Earliest documented use: 1543.
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ANUDYNE - a fragment of the force that keeps this Board going
ANODYE - what gives anodized metal its color
ANOMYNE -
1. (pronounced "ANN-o-mine") - the girl Raggedy Andy sings lovesongs to when he's a bit under the influence and feeling maudlin
2. (pronounced "a-NOM-in-ee") - a candidate for political office
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SALACIOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (suh-LAY-shuhs)
MEANING: adjective: 1. Obscene. 2. Lustful.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin salax (lustful, fond of leaping), from salire (to leap). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sel- (to jump), which also gave us salient, sally, sauté, assail, assault, exult, insult, result, somersault, resile, desultory, and saltant. Earliest documented use: 1661.
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SALACIONUS - the burden of being lecherous
SALARIOUS - a laughable stipend
FALACIOUS - singing euphemistic choruses
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Procity- for living in the city
Prodity- for doing it yourself, in regards to moving
Propity- for stone fruit
Propity- for the love of Mr. T, A Team
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PROBITY
PRONUNCIATION: (PRO-bi-tee)
MEANING: noun: Integrity and honesty.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin probus (upright, good). Ultimately from the Indo-European root per- (forward), which also gave us paramount, prime, proton, prow, German Frau (woman), and Hindi purana (old). Earliest documented use: 1425.
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PROBITH - what one doth (or should) before one jumpith to conclusions
PYROBITY - burning small particles
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RECTITUDE
PRONUNCIATION: (REK-ti-tood, -tyood)
MEANING: noun:
1. Moral uprightness.
2. Correctness.
3. Straightness.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin rectus (right, straight). Ultimately from the Indo-European root reg- (to move in a straight line, to lead or rule) that also gave us regime, direct, rectangle, erect, alert, source, surge, recto, abrogate, arrogate, incorrigible, interregnum, prorogue, regent, regnant, and supererogatory. Earliest documented use: 1425.
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REACTITUDE - a hair-trigger temper
RESTITUDE - just the opposite: slow to respond, verging on torpor
RECTITUNE - what the amateur band did to my song
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Rectimude- mood wrecker
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EMOLLIENTPRONUNCIATION: (i-MOL-yuhnt) MEANING: adjective: Soothing or softening. noun: Something that sooths or softens. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin emollire (to soften), from ex- (intensive prefix) + mollire (to soften), from mollis (soft). Ultimately from the same Indo-European root mel- (soft) as words such as malt, melt, mollify, smelt, enamel, schmaltz, and moil. Earliest documented use: 1643 ____________________________ EXOLLIENT - Kukla and Fran have to go on on their own EMBOLLIENT - broken off a larger object and carried to a different location EFOLLIENT - recently discharged as an exotic dancer
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STERNUTATE
PRONUNCIATION: (stuhr-NOO-tayt, -NYOO-)
MEANING: verb intr.: To sneeze.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin sternuere (to sneeze). Earliest documented use: 1745.
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SATERNUTATE - the sixth planet is wobbling on its axis
STERNULATE - what you hear from your parents when you're not home in time
STERNNUTATE - shake your rear end
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ERUCT
PRONUNCIATION: (i-RUKT)
MEANING: verb tr., intr.:
1. To belch: to expel gases from the stomach through the mouth.
2. To emit violently, fumes from a volcano, for example.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin eructare (to vomit, belch, discharge). Ultimately from the Indo-European root reug- (to vomit, to belch, smoke, cloud), which also gave us reek and German rauchen (to smoke). Earliest documented use: 1666.
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KERUCT - Yer right!
RERUCT - belch again
ERUNT - (v) they were to have been; (n) even more runty than a D-runt
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FLATULATE
PRONUNCIATION: (FLACH-uh-layt)
MEANING: verb intr.: To pass intestinal gas from the anus.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin flare (to blow). Earliest documented use: 1805.
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FLATULANE - the shoulder of a road, where you put your care when he tire loses its air
FLATULAE - small apartments shared by women (think of a FLAT: a small one is a FLATULE, women make it a FLATULA, and the plural makes them FLATULAE)
FLATULUTE - a stringed musical instrument that can't play any sharps
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Flatulatte- time sensitive alternative energy
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INGURGITATEPRONUNCIATION: (in-GUHR-ji-tayt) MEANING: verb tr.: To swallow greedily or in large amounts. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin gurgitare (to flood), from gurges (whirlpool). Earliest documented use: 1570 _________________________________ INSURGITATE - foment rebellion INJURGITATE - 1. fill with hand lotion; 2. harm the London art gallery INGURGITALE - the story of the Coney Island Hot-Dog-Eating Contest
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NICTITATE
PRONUNCIATION: (NIK-ti-tayt)
MEANING: verb intr.: To wink or blink.
ETYMOLOGY: from Latin nictitare, frequentative of nictare (to wink). Earliest documented use: 1822.
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NICOTITASTE - why people chew tobacco
NICKITATE - to try to look like Santa Claus
NOCTITATE - close your eyes from drowsiness (see also NICTILATE)
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