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Let's let this thread load a little faster, by starting Mensopause IV (continued from here) ___________________________________ REPUDIATEPRONUNCIATION: (ri-PYOO-dee-ayt) MEANING: verb tr.: To reject, refuse, or disown. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin repudiare (to divorce, reject), from repudium (divorce). Earliest documented use: 1534. _____________________________________ RYEPUDIATE - This whiskey isn't worth the glass it's served in. RECUDIATE - Oh, and about that clump of grass I've been chewing on for the last half hour... PREPUDIATE - My mind is made up, don't confuse me with facts !
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BLANDISHMENT
PRONUNCIATION: (BLAN-dish-muhnt)
MEANING: noun: Something (action, speech, etc.) designed to flatter, coax, or influence.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin blandiri (to flatter). Ultimately from the Indo-European root mel- (soft), which also gave us bland, melt, smelt, malt, mild, mulch, mollify, mollusk, emollient, enamel, smalto, and schmaltz. Earliest documented use: 1591. ________________________________
BYLANDISHMENT - going by caravan, rather than by boat
BLONDISHMENT - lightening your hair
BLANDDISHMENT - the art of preparing tasteless food
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IGNOMINIOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (ig-nuh-MIN-ee-uhs)
MEANING: adjective: Deserving or causing disgrace or shame.
ETYMOLOGY: Via French, from Latin ignominia, from ig- (not) + nomen (name). Ultimately from the Indo-European root no-men- (name) which also gave us name, anonymous, noun, synonym, eponym, renown, nominate, misnomer, and moniker. Earliest documented use: 1530. ________________________________
IGNOMANIOUS - compulsively proclaiming an all-pervading lack of knowledge
INNOMINIOUS - pertaining to a Disgraceful Act That Shall Not Be Named
PIGNOMINIOUS - (Sorry, I'm not going to get involved in a political discussion)
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signominious- cringe worthy persistence of strange memory "Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity" 
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FRACTIOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (FRAK-shuhs)
MEANING: adjective: 1. Irritable; cranky. 2. Unruly.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin fractus, past participle of frangere (to break). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bhreg- (to break), which also gave us break, breach, fraction, and fragile. Earliest documented use: 1725. ________________________________
FURACTIOUS - belligerently working for PETA
PRACTIOUS - getting ready for Carnegie Hall
FRANCTIOUS - Sinatra is worried
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Tractious-record breaking, best selling, running shoes.
Thoughts out to my daughter and her 5k today!
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How'd the 5K go? _____________________________ SENESCENCEPRONUNCIATION: (suh-NES-uhns) MEANING: noun: The process or the state of growing old. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin senescere (to grow old), from senex (old). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sen- (old), which is also the ancestor of senior, senate, senile, Spanish seņor, sir, sire, and surly (which is an alteration of sirly, as in sir-ly). Earliest documented use: 1695. ___________________________________ OENESCENCE - the soul of wine SENESCIENCE - expertise in geriatrics SENSCENCE - the " curiously strong mint" long before Altoids were invented...
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She got first in age/women and fifth overall! 
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TROMOMETER
PRONUNCIATION: (tro-MOM-i-tuhr)
MEANING: noun: An instrument for detecting or measuring faint tremors caused by an earthquake.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek tromos (trembling). Earliest documented use: 1878. ____________________________________
TROMOMETIER - Shaker par excellence
TOROMOMETER - the number of your cows who have given birth to bulls
TROMBOMETER - how they found out exactly how many led the Big Parade
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Mappenchance-plotting a course and taking a chance, everyday.
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