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VERACIOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (vuh-RAY-shuhs)
MEANING: adjective: Truthful; honest; accurate. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin verus (true). Earliest documented use: 1677. ________________________________
OVERACIOUS - placing too much reliance of the value of aces, in poker
RVERACIOUS - My Winnebago can go faster than yours!
TVERACIOUS - given to binge-watching
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DOUGHTYPRONUNCIATION: (DAU-tee) MEANING: adjective: Brave; courageous; determined. ETYMOLOGY: From Old English dohtig (worthy). Earliest documented use: 1030. ______________________________ DOUGHTV - cable service when there's no competition NOUGATY - like a confection made with sugar or honey, roasted nuts, whipped egg whites, and sometimes chopped candied fruit DOUGHTS - what Mairzy and Doughzy (although Little Lamzy Divey)
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GAPESEED
PRONUNCIATION: (GAYP-seed)
MEANING: noun: 1. One who stares especially with an open mouth. 2. Something that is an object of staring: anything unusual.
ETYMOLOGY: From gape + seed, from Old Norse gapa (to open the mouth, stare) + Old English saed (seed). Earliest documented use: 1598.
NOTES: The idiom �to sow gapeseed� means to gape at something (say, a fair) instead of doing some useful work (say, sowing wheat). This, and other idioms, hint at our agrarian roots: -to sow wild oats -to sow the seeds (of something) -as you sow, so shall you reap, etc.
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GA-PESTED - afflicted with peach-tree borer
GAPESEYED - bowed so as to display cleavage
AGAPESEED - the source of Greek love
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WINDROW
PRONUNCIATION: (WIND-ro)
MEANING: noun: 1. A row of raked hay laid to dry in the wind before being baled. 2. A row of leaves, dust, snow, or other material swept together. verb tr.: To arrange in a windrow.
ETYMOLOGY: From wind + row, from Old English row + raew. Earliest documented use: 1523. _________________________________
WINEROW - a grape arbor
WINGROW - 1) reinvest the dividends in a good investment; 2) a line of planes on an aircraft carrier
WINDRAW - 1) success at poker; 2) mid-March weather
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UNWONTED
PRONUNCIATION: (un-WON-tid)
MEANING: adjective: Unusual or unaccustomed.
ETYMOLOGY: From un- + Middle English woned, wont (accustomed), past participle of wonen (to be used to, to dwell). Ultimately from the Indo-European root wen- (to desire or to strive for), which is also the source of wish, win, Venus, overweening, venerate, venison, and banyan, venial, and ween. Earliest documented use: 1553. _______________________________
UNWOTTED - not understood
FUNWONTED - having the usual good time
UNDONTED - repealed, made legal
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ANGOR
PRONUNCIATION: (ANG-guhr)
MEANING: noun: Extreme anguish or mental distress.
ETYMOLOGY: If you�ve ever been so angry, or so anguished, that you felt choked you�ve personally experienced the origin of this term. It comes from Latin angor (strangling, suffocation, mental distress), from angere (to squeeze). Ultimately from the Indo-European root angh- (tight, suffocating, painful), which also gave us anger, anguish, anxious, angst, angina, and hangnail. Earliest documented use: 1440. _______________________
ANYGOR - whatever injury caused by a bull
ANXOR - a stress-inducer
ANGER - where a Cockney angs is at
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REFECT
PRONUNCIATION: (ri-FEKT)
MEANING: verb tr.: To refresh with food or drink.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin reficere (to renew or restore), from re- (back) + facere (to make). Earliest documented use: 1488.
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REFACT - to restate an inconvenient truth so as to bolster an invalid argument
REFICT - to make up a new story; see also REFACT
REFECK - to reconstruct a bad public relations image, in order to regain the appearance of responsibility and reliability (compare FECKLESS)
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