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VERACIOUS

PRONUNCIATION: (vuh-RAY-shuhs)

MEANING: adjective: Truthful; honest; accurate.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin verus (true). Earliest documented use: 1677.
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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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Vertacious- quality of green

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DOUGHTY

PRONUNCIATION: (DAU-tee)

MEANING: adjective: Brave; courageous; determined.

ETYMOLOGY: From Old English dohtig (worthy). Earliest documented use: 1030.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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