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VENAL
PRONUNCIATION: (VEEN-l)
MEANING: adjective: 1. Capable of being bought: open to bribery. 2. Of or related to bribery.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin venalis (that which is for sale), from venum (sale). Ultimately from the Indo-European root wes- (to buy) that is also the source of vend, bazaar, vilify, and monopsony. Earliest documented use: 1827.
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VOENAL - pertaining to the corruption of ancient Greek culture
VENTAL letting everything hang out the window, usually angrily
AVENAL - 1. without blood vessels returning to the heart
2. perpendicular to streets
3. like oatmeal
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VENALA vanilla whose taste disappeared
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FECKLESS
PRONUNCIATION: (FEK-les)
MEANING: adjective: Weak; ineffective; incompetent; irresponsible.
ETYMOLOGY: From Scots feck, from effeck, a variant of effect, from Latin efficere (to accomplish), from ef-, a variant of ex- (thoroughly) + facere (to make). Earliest documented use: 1586.
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FECKLERS - foul-mouthed members of the audience giving the speaker a hard time
PECKLESS - a chicken with no beak
FECKLES - little red-brown splotches on the skin of a two-year-old
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VERITABLE
PRONUNCIATION: (VER-i-tuh-buhl)
MEANING: adjective: True; real (typically used as an intensifier for a metaphor).
ETYMOLOGY:From Old French verai (true), from Latin verus (true). Earliest documented use: 1474.
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VEGITABLE - where you stack your Peas and Cukes
VERSITABLE - where you write poetry
VERITABLET - truth serum in pill form
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BOULEVARDIER
PRONUNCIATION: (bool-uh-vahr-DYAY, -DEER)
MEANING: noun: A socially active man who likes to visit fashionable places.
ETYMOLOGY: From French, originally a man who frequents boulevards, from boulevard (a wide street), from Old French bollevart (rampart converted to a promenade), from Middle Dutch or German bollwerk (bulwark). Earliest documented use: 1879.
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POULEVARDIER - the chicken who crossed the French road
BOULEVARDENER - tends the flowers and trees on the Champs Élysées
BOOLAVARDIER - an Ivy Leaguer who can't make up his mind whether he goes to Yale or Harvard
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PACHYDERM
PRONUNCIATION: (PAK-i-duhrm)
MEANING: noun
1. Someone or something having thick skin, for example, elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
2. An insensitive person.
3. A person who is not affected by criticism or ridicule.
ETYMOLOGY: From French pachyderme, from Greek pakhudermos (thick-skinned), from pakhus (thick) + derma (skin). Ultimately from the Indo-European root der- (to split, peel, or flay), which also gave us tear, tart, turd, and Hindi dalit (oppressed, crushed). Earliest documented use: 1828.
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PACHYPERM - treatment to make your hair simultaneously thick and curly
PEACHYDERM - skin like Scarlett O'Hara's (antebellum, anyway)
PATCHYDERM - the Heartbreak of Psoriasis
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REVENANT
PRONUNCIATION: (REV-uh-nuhnt)
MEANING: noun: A person who returns after a long absence or supposedly after death.
ETYMOLOGY: From French revenant (ghost), from revenir (to return), from Latin re- (again) + venire (to come). Earliest documented use: 1823.
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REVENAST - dream of being a political cartoonist
RETENANT - finding a new renter after a successful eviction
REVENDANT - the name of a fancy Paris shop for pre-owned merchandise
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RHAPSODE
PRONUNCIATION: (RAP-sohd)
MEANING: noun: A professional reciter of poems.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin rhapsodia, from Greek rhapsoidia (recitation of epic poetry), from rhaptein (to stitch together) + aidein (to sing), from oide (song). Ultimately from the Indo-European root wed- (to speak), which also gave us parody, comedy, tragedy, melody, and ode. Earliest documented use: 1712.
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RAPSODE - 1. a professional chanter of modern rapid-fire rhythmic poems;
2. an extraordinarily tentative participant in a poetry slam
RHAPSODA - the preferred drink at the slam
REAPSODE - a Harvest poet
RHAPISODE - one chapter in a serialized saga (think Homer's Odyssey)
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BON VIVEUR
PRONUNCIATION: (BON* vee-VUHR) [* this syllable is nasal]
MEANING: noun: A person who enjoys good food, drinks, luxuries, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: A pseudo-French formation, from bon (good) + viveur (a living person), from vivre (to live). A synonym is bon vivant. Earliest documented use: 1865.
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SON VIVEUR - My kid does nothing but party all day... (see also SIN VIVEUR; BOY VIVEUR)
BON VIVEUR
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(Sorry- short on time today! I'll try to find more time later to do a couple more.)
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BOND VIVEUR - characterizing Ian Fleming's Secret Agent
BAN VIVEUR - 1. campaign slogan of the Puritans
2. after a night on the town, you need a good deodorant
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KITSCHPRONUNCIATION: (kich) MEANING: noun: Art objects that are gaudy or overly sentimental, designed for popular appeal. adjective: Tawdry, tacky, sentimental. ETYMOLOGY: From German Kitsch. Earliest documented use: 1926. NOTES: What comes to mind when you think of kitsch? Here are some examples: a coffee mug in the shape of a pineapple, ceramic Santa Claus, plastic flamingos on a lawn, snow globes, popular religious iconography. __________________________ SKITSCH -- Lyle Russell Henderson - American composer, arranger, conductor. Married to Faye Emerson 1950-58 KIMSCH - an abbreviated traditional Korean fermented dish made of many different vegetable ingredients, textures, and seasonings depending on what part of the country it comes from (see here) KATSCH - 1. a children's game played with a ball; 2. a fisherman's haul; 3. a hidden store of supplies or other goods; 4. money (as opposed to credit or other obligations) 5. n. or v. snag or interruption
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KILTSCH skirts worn by Scotsmen
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VERBOTEN
PRONUNCIATION: (vuhr-BOHT-n)
MEANING: adjective: Not allowed; forbidden.
ETYMOLOGY: From German verboten (forbidden), past participle of verbieten (to forbid). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bheudh- (to be or to make aware), which also gave us beadle, ombudsman, forbid, and the word Buddha. Earliest documented use: 1912.
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VERBOSTEN - how Red Sox and Patriots and Celtics and Bruins fans fans root
VERB TEN - member of a list of action words
OVERBOTEN - they were on sale, and I got way too many of 'em
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UBERMENSCH
PRONUNCIATION: (OO-buhr-mensch)
MEANING: noun: An ideal man; also used ironically.
ETYMOLOGY: From German Übermensch (superman), from über (over) + Mensch (man). In Nietzschean philosophy, an Übermensch is an ideal superior being. Earliest documented use: 1902. Also see mensch and luftmensch.
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BUBERMENSCH - a person not quite sure how to relate to consciousness-bearing entities as opposed to animate objects ("I-Thou" vs. "I-it")
UMBERMENSCH - a brown-skinned humanoid
UBERMUNSCH - what you eat while you transport passengers in your personal-car-for-hire
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GAULEITER
PRONUNCIATION: (GOU-ly-tuhr)
MEANING: noun: An overbearing petty official.
ETYMOLOGY: From German Gauleiter (a district leader in Nazi Germany), from Gau (district) + Leiter (leader). Earliest documented use: 1936.
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GASLEITER - turned on the streetlights in late-19th-century Berlin
EAU-LEITER - 1,000 cc of water from the Seine
GAUL EIDER - a French duck
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CLERISY
PRONUNCIATION: (KLER-i-see)
MEANING: noun: The well-educated class; the literati; the intelligentsia.
ETYMOLOGY: From German Klerisei (clergy), from Latin clericus (cleric), from Greek klerikos (belonging to the clergy), from Greek kleros (inheritance). Earliest documented use: 1834. The clerisy, the clergy, and clerks are all cousins, etymologically speaking.
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CELERISY - the fast-moving
SCLERISY - looking at the whites of your eyes
CLERITY - plain speaking, in Brooklyn
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HENCHMAN
PRONUNCIATION: (HENCH-muhn)
MEANING: noun: A supporter or subordinate, especially one who engages in illegal activities for a powerful boss or criminal.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English hengest (a male horse) + man. Earlier a henchman was an attendant who walked or rode beside a prince. Earliest documented use: 1360.
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BENCHMAN - Jacoby Brisett, before this week and after next week. A player whose role is mostly to warm the bench.
HUNCHMAN - 1. Quasimodo; 2. the psychic who discredited himself by cancelling an appearance due to unforeseen circumstances
HENCEMAN - a student of Socrates, as presented by Plato
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POODLEFAKER
PRONUNCIATION: (POOD-l fay-kuhr)
MEANING: noun: A man who seeks out the company of upper-status women, especially for advancing himself.
ETYMOLOGY: The term poodle-faker was British slang for a newly commissioned officer who cultivates female company, especially for social or professional advancement. From poodle (a breed developed to retrieve game from the water), from German Pudel (poodle), from Low German pudeln (to splash about), from pudel (puddle). Earliest documented use: 1902.
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POODLEWAKER - canine alarm clock
POODLEFAKIR - the Dog Swami
DOODLEFAKER - the artist behind counterfeit Google splashscreen cartoons (Didja see today's? Google is 18 years old today! Have they registered to vote, do you think?)
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DOODLEFAKERME, in high schools boring classes.
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HARE-BRAINED
PRONUNCIATION: (HAYR-braynd)
adjective: Foolish; reckless; ridiculous.
From the allusion that a harebrained person has the brain as small as a hare’s. From Old English hara (hare) + braegen (brain). Earliest documented use: 1548.
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HARE-TRAINED - well-schooled in the Krishna movement, a branch of Hinduism, formally known as Gaudiya Vaishnavism
HATE-BRAINED - skin-headed
SHARE-BRAINED - forwarding email and internet messages without any consideration of their appropriateness or even truth
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DUCK SOUP
PRONUNCIATION: (DUHK soop)
MEANING: noun: Something that is very easy to do.
ETYMOLOGY: Is duck soup very easy to make? How the term duck soup came to be known for an easily accomplished task is unclear. Earliest documented use: 1912
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DUSK SOUP - a light meal at sunset...
DUNK SOUP - ...suitable for moistening your dry doughnut
DUCK SOUR - Donald, why the fowl disposition today?
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SCARE-BRAINED-preparing one's Hallowe'en costume
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SCARE-BRAINED - preparing one's Hallowe'en costume Yeah, that works!
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SKYLARK
PRONUNCIATION: (SKY-lark)
MEANING: verb intr.: To frolic or to engage in horseplay.
ETYMOLOGY: Skylark is a small bird known for singing while soaring in the sky. Earlier, the term skylark was used by seamen to refer to playfully moving around the rigging of a ship. From sky + lark, from Old Norse sky (cloud). Earliest documented use: 1686.
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SKYDARK - total eclipse of the sun
SKYLURK - unpublicized drone
SKILARK - spur-of-the-moment trip to Vail
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NARCISSISM
PRONUNCIATION: (NAHR-si-siz-uhm)
MEANING: noun: Excessive self-interest or self-love.
ETYMOLOGY: In Greek mythology, Narcissus was a hunter and a young man of exceptional beauty. He spurned the nymph Echo. One day he saw his reflection in water and fell in love with himself. Not realizing it was himself and unable to leave, he eventually died. Earliest documented use: 1822.
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SNARCISSISM - ...and I'm S-O-O-O-O sarcastic
FARCISSISM - ...and I'm going to take over the Colombian drug industry too while I'm at it. Why not? Nobody else can do it.
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FARCISSISM - ...and I'm going to take over the Colombian drug industry too while I'm at it. Why not? Nobody else can do it. 
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QUARCISSISM the essence of being a quark, way out there.
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LIEN
PRONUNCIATION: (leen, LEE-uhn)
MEANING: noun: A claim on another’s property until a debt owed by that person is paid back.
ETYMOLOGY: From French lien (bond, tie), from Latin ligamen (bond, tie), from ligare (to bind). Ultimately from the Indo-European root leig- (to bind), which also gave us league, ligament, ligature, ally, alloy, rally, liaison, religion, rely, oblige, and furl. Earliest documented use: 1530.
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RIEN - Think nothing of it!
ALIEN - me, now that I've paid the mechanic's bill and gotten my car back
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TIEN shortened form of Tianaman Square, Beijing
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