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AFFECTIOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (uh-FEK-shuhs)
MEANING: adjective: Affectionate or cordial.
ETYMOLOGY: Via French, from Latin afficere (to affect or influence). Earliest documented use: 1580.
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OAFFECTIOUS - replete with contagious stupidity
AFFICTIOUS - made up out of whole cloth
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CAMELIOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (kuh-MEE-lee-uhs)
MEANING: adjective: Relating to the camel or its hump.
ETYMOLOGY: From camel, from Latin camelus, from Greek kamelos. Ultimately from the Semitic root gml (camel), which also gave us jamal and gamal, the Arabic and Hebrew words for camel. Earliest documented use: 1902.
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CAMELLIOUS - flowery
CAMERIOUS - eidetic; exact in every detail
SCAMELIOUS - deceptive
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ADVENTIOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (ad-VEN-shuhs)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Coming from outside: not inherent or native.
2. Happening by chance.
3. Appearing in an unusual or abnormal place.
ETYMOLOGY: A variant spelling of adventitious, from Latin adventicius (coming from without), from advenire (to arrive), from ad- (toward) + venire (to come). Earliest documented use: 1633.
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AVENTIOUS - without a window
ADVERTIOUS - unfavorable
ADVENTIONS - national meetings of marketing professionals
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BADVENTIOUS - tending to overheat; hard to breathe
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MAJESTIOUSPRONUNCIATION: (muh-JUHS-shus) MEANING: adjective: Impressive in a dignified or inspiring manner; stately; grand. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin major (greater), comparative of magnus (large). Ultimately from the Indo-European root meg- (great), which also gave us magnificent, maharajah, mahatma, master, mayor, maestro, magnate, magistrate, maximum, magnify, hermetic, magisterial, magnanimous, magnifico, mahatma, megalopolis, and mickle. Earliest documented use: 1685. ___________________________ MATESTIOUS - studying very hard to pass the examen for entry into the lycéePAJESTIOUS - the father of all jongleursTAJESTIOUS - see here
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Quodliberal- education which one deems non-technical, broad ranging
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QUODLIBETAL
PRONUNCIATION: (kwod-LIB-uh-tuhl)
MEANING: adjective: Relating to a question or topic for debate or discussion.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin quodlibetum, from Latin quod (what) + libet (it pleases), meaning “whatever pleases”. Earlier the term referred to a mock exercise in discussion or debate. Earliest documented use: 1581.
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QUIDLIBETAL - a Member of Parliament who is quite free with spending other peoople's money
QUODLOBETAL - pneumonia that doesn't care which part of your lung it infects
DUODLIBETAL - feed your ulcer anything you like
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SITZMARK
PRONUNCIATION: (SITZ-mark, SITS-)
MEANING: noun: A mark made by someone falling backward in the snow.
ETYMOLOGY: From German sitzen (to sit) + mark. Earliest documented use: 1935. Two related words are sitzfleisch and sitzkrieg.
USAGE: “He’d practically worn a sitzmark in the concrete there, so fond was he of that particular fishing hole.”
Marthanne Shubert; A Woman to Blame; Uncial Press; 2009.
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HITZMARK - is well and truly aimed
SITZMART - the best place in Berlin to buy chairs
SPITZMARK - how junk mail to a champion Olympic swimmer is addressed
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OUTRO
PRONUNCIATION: (OU-tro)
MEANING: noun: The concluding part of a piece of music, program, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: Modeled after intro. Earliest documented use: 1967.
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O'UTERO - an Irish womb
OUTRON - a gene that paradoxically is active only when it's deleted
YOUTRO - toss me da dam ball, arreddy!
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SOLIPSISM
PRONUNCIATION: (SOL-ip-siz-uhm)
MEANING: noun
1. The view or theory that the self is all that exists or can be known to exist.
2. Self-absorption or self-centeredness.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin solus (alone) + ipse (self). Earliest documented use: 1836.
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SOLIPSIESM - an idea of earth-shaking importance
SOLIPRISM - breaks sunlight into its spectrum of colors
SLIPSISM - a momentary mental lapse
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SLOPSISM -any attempt of mine to cook.
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Isolipsism- opening the mind's eye (toe-may-toe); similar, in theory, to TBBT and tomatoes cracking. When one becomes too big for their breeches.
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INTRAPRENEUR
PRONUNCIATION: (in-truh-pruh-NUHR, -NOOR, -NYOOR)
MEANING: noun: An employee who works as an entrepreneur within an established company, having the freedom to take risks and act independently.
ETYMOLOGY: A blend of intra- (within) + entrepreneur, from French entreprendre (to undertake), from Latin inter- (between) + prendere (to take). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ghend-/ghed- (to seize or to take), which also gave us pry, prey, spree, reprise, surprise, osprey, prison, impregnable, impresa, pernancy, and prise. Earliest documented use: 1978.
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INTRAPRETEUR - a translator so my multiple personalities can understand each other
INTRAPYRENEUR - a Basque businessman with customers in both France to the North and Spain to the South
ISNTRAPRENEUR - a risk-aversive would-be innovator. See also AINTRAPRENEUR [substandard]
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INTRAPRETEUR - a translator so my multiple personalities can understand each other 
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BATHOS
PRONUNCIATION: (BAY-thas, -thos)
MEANING: noun: An abrupt descent from lofty or sublime to the commonplace; anticlimax.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek bathos (depth). Earliest documented use: 1638.
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BIATHOS - the Muskeeteer swings both ways
BUTHOS - an enema tube
BATHOUS - 1. a lavatorium
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STRIDULOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (STRIJ-uh-luhs)
MEANING: adjective: 1. Having or making a harsh grating sound. 2. Shrill or grating.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin stridere (to make a harsh sound). Earliest documented use: 1611.
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STRADULOUS - sounding ike an old violin
ASTRIDULOUS - one leg on one side, one leg on the other
'STRIADULOUS - it sounds like a I-III-V chord
(Compare with the word for June 4, 2015. Something's not really cricket here!
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TORPID
PRONUNCIATION: (TOR-pid)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Sluggish or inactive.
2. Apathetic.
3. Dormant, as when hibernating.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin torpidus (numb), from torpere (to be stiff or numb). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ster- (stiff), which also gave us starch, stare, stork, starve, cholesterol, and torpedo. Earliest documented use: 1613.
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PORPID - dolphin-like
TORNID - my driver's license is torn up
TOROID - horny, like a bull (What, you were expecting something doughnut-shaped?)
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FASTUOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (FAS-choo-uhs)
MEANING: adjective: 1. Haughty; arrogant. 2. Pretentious.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin fastuosus, from fastus (arrogance). Earliest documented use: 1638.
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FISTUOUS - given to hitting, with minimal provocation
FASTULOUS - tends to protest by going on a hunger strike
FASTUOUT - our bouncer is very efficient here
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IMPERTINENT
PRONUNCIATION: (im-PURT-nuhnt)
MEANING: adjective: 1. Presumptuous or rude. 2. Irrelevant.
ETYMOLOGY: From in- (not) + pertinere (to pertain), from per- (through) + 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, tenuous, tenable, extenuate, distend, detente, countenance, and abstentious. Earliest documented use: 1380.
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IMPERATINENT - the Emperor's realm fills this entire land mass
IMBERTINENT - Hi, my name is Bertinent !
IMPEXTINENT - that naughty little critter used to rent an apartment in the building I own
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BIBULOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (BIB-yuh-luhs)
MEANING: adjective: 1. Excessively fond of drinking. 2. Highly absorbent.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin bibere (to drink). Ultimately from the Indo-European root poi- (to drink), which also gave us potion, poison, potable, beverage, and Sanskrit paatram (pot). Earliest documented use: 1676.
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BIMBULOUS - airheaded
BIBBULOUS - like lettuce
BIBLOUS - Scriptural
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GRAMARYE
PRONUNCIATION: (GRAM-uh-ree)
MEANING: noun: Occult learning; magic.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French gramaire (grammar, book of magic), from Greek gramma (letter). Ultimately from the Indo-European root gerbh- (to scratch), which also gave us crab, crayfish, carve, crawl, grammar, program, graphite, glamor, anagram, paraph, and graffiti. Earliest documented use: 1320.
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GRAMAREYE - what it takes to be a good editor and proofreader
GRAMPARYE - the ancestor of all blended whiskey
GAMARYE - a very short, high-energy wave studied by Australian physicists
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QUACKSALVER
PRONUNCIATION: (KWAK-sal-vuhr)
MEANING: noun: A quack: one pretending to have skills or knowledge, especially in medicine.
ETYMOLOGY: From obsolete Dutch (now kwakzalver), from quack (boast) + salve (ointment). Earliest documented use: 1579.
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QUARKSALVER - what to serve your sub-atomic - nay, sub-nuclear - particles on
QUACKSALTER - what you use to make Pickled Duck
QUACKSAVER - what you suck on when you hanker after a toroidal fowl-flavored hard candy
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VIRIDITY
PRONUNCIATION: (vi-RID-i-tee)
MEANING: noun: 1. The quality or state of being green. 2. Youthful innocence.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin viridis (green). Earliest documented use: 1430.
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VIRGIDITY - the maiden has a cold
VIXIDITY - foxiness
VIRIDITE - 1. a native or Viridia; 2. a copper-containing ore; it shows green sparkles in bright light
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QUICKSALVER BandAid on a Cancer
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YOBBERY
PRONUNCIATION: (YOB-uh-ree)
MEANING: noun: Rowdy, destructive behavior by the youth.
ETYMOLOGY: From yob (a rowdy youth), coined by reversing the spelling of the word boy. Earliest documented use: 1974.
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YOBEERY - how to catch the attention of a venerable American comic actor from both silent and sound film eras
BYOBBERY - being invited to a party and then finding out you're expected to bring your own booze
COBBERY - the relationship between BFFs in Australia
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XENOPHILE
PRONUNCIATION: (ZEN-uh-fyl, ZEE-nuh-)
MEANING: noun: One who is attracted to foreign things or people.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek xeno- (foreign) + -phile (love). Earliest documented use: 1934.
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OENOPHILE is a real word, and so is XENOPHILE. Rats.
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LENOPHILE - Jimmy's good, and Stephen is better, but they'll never take Jay's place
X-NO-PHILE - it's so secret, even Mulder and Scully can't talk about it...
OXENOPHILE - What are you, some kind of pervert?
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JACULATE
PRONUNCIATION: (JAK-yuh-layt)
MEANING: verb tr.: To emit or hurl.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin jaculare (to dart), from jaculum (dart, javelin), from jacere (to throw). Earliest documented use: 1623.
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JACULATTE - last season's pumpkin-flavored drink from Starbucks
MACULATE - a mis-conception
JACKULATE - what Jackie said to JFK when he didn't show up on time
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JAMULATE - You started your improvised solo a beat or two off.
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COGNIZE
PRONUNCIATION: (KOG-nyz)
MEANING: verb tr.: To perceive; to understand; to know.
ETYMOLOGY: Back-formation from cognizance, via French from Latin cognoscere (to learn). Ultimately from the Indo-European root gno- (to know), which is also the source of know, recognize, acquaint, ignore, diagnosis, notice, normal, anagnorisis (the moment of recognition or discovery), and prosopagnosia (inability to recognize faces). Earliest documented use: 1659.
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COIGNIZE - to turn a corner; to place the keystone in an arch; to insert two stepped wedges to fill up space
COGNITE - a word in a foreign language that comes from the same origin as Austrailian word
CYGNIZE - a fancy word meant to hide the fact that you're calling something ugly (like the Ugly Duckling)
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PLAINT
PRONUNCIATION: (playnt)
MEANING: noun: 1. Complaint. 2. Protest. 3. Lamentation.
ETYMOLOGY: From from Old French plainte (complaint, cry), from Latin planctus (lamentation), from plangere (to beat one’s breast). Ultimately from the Indo-European root plak- (to strike), which also gave us plaintiff, plague, plankton, fling, complain, apoplectic and plangent. Earliest documented use: 1225.
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PLAINST - most undistinguished
SLAINT - What St George hath done to the Dragon
SPLAINT - I told you all about it already!
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PLAINCT "Walk the....." in pirate speak.
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Splaint- past tense of Splain. What Lucy does when Ricky starts the finger waggin.
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SUAGE
PRONUNCIATION: (swaz)
MEANING: verb tr.: To assuage: to make something unpleasant less severe.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin suavis (sweet). Ultimately from the Indo-European root swad- (sweet, pleasant), which also gave us sweet, suave, hedonism, persuade, and Hindi swad (taste). Earliest documented use: 1400.
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SUARE - utter an oath
SQUAGE - past tense of SQUEEGE, to dry a pane of glass by scraping across it with a flexible rubber straightedge
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