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Carpettagger- 1001 of 1001 games, the carpettagger tries to take possession of the lamp before the sultan can make three wishes and vanish. If the sultan vanishes three more wishes are granted.
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...a CARPETBLAGGER ? (see the Word for just this past May 31) ___________________________________ CARPETBAGGERPRONUNCIATION: (KAHR-pet-bag-uhr) MEANING: An opportunistic outsider, especially a political candidate who contests election in an area while having little connection to it. ETYMOLOGY: In the US, the term was applied to a Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War during the Reconstruction era. Such a person typically carried his belongings in a bag made of old carpet. Earliest documented use: 1868. ____________________________ CARPETBRAGGER - Well, my oriental rug is 36 by 48 feet, and 3500 years old, and sold at auction for $350,000! CARETBAGGER - packager of insert marks CARPE.BAGGER - Seize the kid who puts your groceries into the sack!
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LOGROLLING
PRONUNCIATION: (LOG-ro-ling)
MEANING: noun:
1. The exchanging of favors, especially by legislators by voting for each other’s legislation.
2. A sport in which two players stand on a floating log and try to knock each other off by spinning the log with their feet.
ETYMOLOGY: From the former practice of neighbors helping each other move logs by rolling them. Earliest documented use: 1792.
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LAGROLLING - robbing a convict
LOWROLLING - like a mist (see also FOGROLLING)
LOGROWLING - noise made by a wary grizzly bear
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Lolrolling- laughing out loud while rolling down a hill.
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DOG-WHISTLE
PRONUNCIATION: (DOG [h]wis-uhl)
MEANING: noun: A coded message that appears innocuous to the general public, but that has an additional interpretation meant to appeal to the target audience, for example, to racists.
adjective: Relating to such a message.
ETYMOLOGY: From the allusion to a dog whistle whose high-pitched sound is inaudible to humans but can be heard by dogs. Earliest documented use: 1995.
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DAG-WHISTLE - how Blondie tells her husband that dinner's ready
DOG-WHITTLE - what woodcarvers do in their spare time
DO-WHISTLE - what your hairdresser uses to let you know your styling is finished
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Dog-thistle- flowering plant with a rough bark stem
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Surffrage- roar of a dark wild beast (Triton after being run off the wave by a merman)
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SUFFRAGE
PRONUNCIATION: (SUF-rij)
MEANING: noun: The right to vote; also, the exercise of such a right.
ETYMOLOGY: From French suffrage, from Latin suffragium (voting tablet, right to vote). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bhreg- (to break), which also gave us break, breach, fraction, fragile, fractal, infringe, irrefragable, and fractious. Suffrage? Because a broken piece of tile was used as a ballot in the past. Earliest documented use: 1380.
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SCUFFRAGE - You stepped on my blue suede shoes! Why you little...you'll pay for that!
SURFRAGE - the waves are very angry today
SUFFERAGE - having to make a painful choice in an election
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EQUANIMOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (i-KWAN-uh-muhs)
MEANING: adjective: Even-tempered: calm and composed in all circumstances.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin aequus (equal, even) + animus (mind, spirit). Earliest documented use: 1656.
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E-QUASI-MOUS - a small electronic pseudo-rodent
EQUANIMBUS - nothing but clouds to be seen in every direction
EQUINIMOUS - the Unknown Horseman
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MUMPISHPRONUNCIATION: (MUHM-pish) MEANING: adjective: Sullen; silent; depressed. ETYMOLOGY: From mump (grimace), perhaps of imitative origin. Earliest documented use: 1721. ________________________ MUMPSISH - having swollen, inflamed parotids (and testicles, too, if you're unlucky) MUMFISH - head of the Piscatorial school GUMPISH - heavily wooded, like a Forrest (or like Andy if you insist)
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COMPUNCTIOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (kuhm-PUNGK-shuhs)
MEANING: adjective: Feeling remorse or guilt.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin compungere (to prick hard), from com- (intensive prefix) + pungere (to prick). Ultimately from the Indo-European root peuk- (to prick), which is also the source of point, puncture, pungent, punctual, poignant, pounce, poniard, impugn, oppugn, and pugnacious. Earliest documented use: 1616.
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COMPUNCTIOLUS - a teeny weeny bit of regret
COMPUNCTIOU - I feel bad about giving you this promissory note, 'cause I know I have no intention to pay it
"COMPUNCHIOUS" - said the Masochist; and the Sadist said, "No!"
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VITUPERATIVE
PRONUNCIATION: (vy-TOO-puhr-uh-tiv, -TYOO-, vi-)
MEANING: adjective: Criticizing bitterly, scathing, abusive.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin vituperare (to blame), from vitium (fault) + parare (to make or prepare). Earliest documented use: 1727.
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AVITUPERATIVE - Angry Birds
VI-TUBER-ATIVE - six sweet potatoes
VOTUPERATIVE - the current Presidential election cycle
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INGENIOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (in-JEEN-yuhs)
MEANING: adjective: Clever, creative, inventive.
ETYMOLOGY: Via French from Latin ingeniosus (clever, talented, full of intellect), from ingenium (inborn talent), from gignere (to beget). Earliest documented use: 1483. Don’t confuse ingenious with ingenuous even though both words are from the same root.
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PINGENIOUS - bowling champion
INGE.NOUS - our Willliam, the French playwright (Picnic, Splendor in the Grass, Bus Stop, Come Bac, Little Sheba, and others)
ING-ENVIOUS - jealous of participles
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CALUMNIATE
PRONUNCIATION: (kuh-LUHM-nee-ayt)
MEANING: verb tr.: To make false statements about someone maliciously.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin calumniari (to accuse falsely). Earliest documented use: 1554.
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CALUMNIASE - the enzyme that dissolves malicious falsehoods
COLUMNIATE - arguing about whether pillars are Ionic or Corinthian (or maybe Doric)
ALUMNIATE - what the graduates did at their big Reunion
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FLOCCIPEND
PRONUNCIATION: (FLOK-si-pend)
MEANING: verb tr.: To regard as worthless.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin flocci, from floccus (tuft of wool) + pendere (to weigh or consider). Earliest documented use: 1548. A related word is floccinaucinihilipilification.
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FLACCIPEND - hanging limply, like a flag in still air
FLOCKIPEND - just waiting for my sheep to come in
FLOCCITEND - ...I shall not want...
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EXONERATE
PRONUNCIATION: (ig-ZON-uh-rayt)
MEANING: verb tr.: 1. To free from blame. 2. To release from a task or obligation.
ETYMOLOGY: from Latin ex- (from) + onus (burden), which also gave English onus and onerous. Earliest documented use: 1524.
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EXOPERATE - I hear they kicked the surgeon off the hospital staff
EXOVERATE - I divorced him 'cause he was much too heavy
EXFONERATE - that's what I used to pay for my land line
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FOOZLE
PRONUNCIATION: (FOO-zuhl)
MEANING: verb tr., intr.: To botch or bungle, especially to make a poor shot in golf; noun: A botched attempt at something.
ETYMOLOGY: Perhaps from German dialect fuseln (to work badly). Earliest documented use: 1857.
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FOZZLE - a prehistoric animal or plant remnant, preserved in stone
FLOOZLE - a diminutive woman of loose moral character
FFOOZLE - like a Heffalump, only much, much louder
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Fonzle- a gift from 'The Fonz'
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PROPITIATE
PRONUNCIATION: (pruh-PISH-ee-ayt)
MEANING: verb tr.: To gain the favor of someone; to appease.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin propitiare (to make favorable, to appease). Ultimately from the Indo-European root pet- (to rush, fly) which also gave us feather, pin, impetus, pinnacle, helicopter, propitious, lepidopterology, peripeteia, petulant, and pteridology. Earliest documented use: 1583.
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PREPITIATE - payment in advance
PROPITIRATE - 1. people who are in favor of aggressive attack dogs make me angry
2. Ditto people who don't appreciate seedless fruit
PROFITIATE - ...said the baker who enjoyed too much of his own creations
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DABSTER
PRONUNCIATION: (DAB-stuhr)
MEANING: noun:
1. An expert.
2. A bungler.
ETYMOLOGY: From dab (an expert) + -ster (denoting a person engaged in some activity; originally a feminine suffix, also used as a diminutive and derogatory suffix). Earliest documented use: 1708.
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ABSTER - sit-ups champion
DbSTER - Dolby employee
DABITER - mosquito responsible for spreading disease in New York City
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Salud days- days of health
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SALAD DAYS
PRONUNCIATION: (SAL-uhd dayz)
MEANING: noun:
1. A period of youthful innocence and inexperience.
2. A period of great success: heyday.
ETYMOLOGY: The earliest documented use of the term is from Shakespeare’s “Antony and Cleopatra” (1616). Cleopatra, now in love with Antony, explains her previous admiration for Julius Caesar with these words:
“My salad days,
When I was green in judgment, cold in blood,
To say as I said then.”
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SALAD DRYS - what you use to blot the water off the lettuce after you wash it
SALSA D-DAYS - we bring out the spicy dip every June 6
USA LAD DAYS - when the United States Mens' Olympic squad does something noteworthy
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DEPTHLESS
PRONUNCIATION: (DEPTH-les)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Immeasurably deep.
2. Shallow; superficial.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English deop (deep) + laes (less). Earliest documented use: 1619.
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DEPTHELESS - a mildly successful Elf King; he succeeded his father, Dep the Great
DEPATHLESS - having new walkways in the previously impenetrable jungle
ADEPTHLESS - igly skilled (ADEPT, H-less)
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GROG
PRONUNCIATION: (grog)
MEANING: noun:
1. An alcoholic drink diluted with water.
2. A strong alcoholic drink.
ETYMOLOGY: After Old Grog, nickname of Admiral Edward Vernon (1684-1757), who ordered diluted rum to be served to his sailors. The admiral earned the nickname from his habit of wearing a grogram cloak. Grogram is a coarse fabric of silk, wool, mohair, or a blend of them. The word grogram is from French gros grain (large grain or texture). Earliest documented use: 1770.
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GROW – the seventh line of chairs in an auditorium, right behind Row F but in front of Row H
AROG – The Green Bay Packers nickname for their first-string quarterback
GROP – past tense of GRIP
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"...adieu with good grace to my morals, my morals
SENTENTIOUS"
PRONUNCIATION: (sen-TEN-shuhs)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Full of pithy expressions.
2. Full of pompous moralizing.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin sententia (opinion), from sentire (to feel or to have an opinion). Some other words derived from the same root are: sense, sentence, sentiment, sentinel, assent, consent, dissent, and resent. Earliest documented use: 1440.
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SENSENTIOUS - needing a strong breath lozenge of the 50s, (mint or licorice flavored)
SENTENCIOUS - having a subject and a verb and various other objects and clauses and phrases, and capable of being diagrammed
ENTENTIOUS - diplomatically understanding and cooperative, to mutual advantage
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JAMBALAYA
PRONUNCIATION: (juhm-buh-LY-uh)
MEANING: noun:
1. A dish made of rice, herbs, spices, vegetables, and meat.
2. A heterogeneous mixture.
ETYMOLOGY: From Louisiana French, from Provençal jambalaia. Earliest documented use: 1872.
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LAMBALAYA - mutton lasagna
SAMBALAYA - a spicy Brazilian dance
JAMALAYA - Frau Merkel, do you know what country has Kuala Lampur as its capital?
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Farrasinous- a dinosaur from the late hypotenuse period, known for terrorizing it's victims with post nasal drip torture
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FARRAGINOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (fuh-RAJ-uh-nuhs)
MEANING: adjective: Heterogeneous; having a mix of random things.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin farrago (mixed fodder), from far/farr (corn or spelt). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bhares- (barley), which also gave us barn, barley, farina, and farrago. Earliest documented use: 1616.
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FARRAGINUS - a sentry's slurred-together challenge; un-compressed, it expands "are ya fer or agin us?"
BARRAGINOUS - continuously bombarding, like a fusillade
EARRAGINOUS - stroking the pinna to arouse libidinous feelings
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KOOL-AID
PRONUNCIATION: (KOOL-ayd)
MEANING: noun: Something accepted without question. Usually used in the phrase “to drink the kool-aid”: to accept something unquestioningly or to demonstrate unquestioning loyalty.
ETYMOLOGY: From Kool-Aid, a powdered flavored drink introduced in 1927. It was earlier known as Kool-Ade, from respelling of cool + -ade (a fruit drink, as in lemonade). Earliest documented use: 1927.
NOTES: Jim Jones was the leader of a cult named Peoples Temple in Jonestown, Guyana. In 1978, he had more than 900 of his followers killed in a murder-suicide by drinking Kool-Aid laced with cyanide. This event gave birth to the figure of speech “to drink the kool-aid”.
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TOOL-AID - the start of the Stanley company of New Britain, CT
BOOLA ID - the sex drive of a Yale student
KOOKLA ID - how you prove you're not Fran or Ollie
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RAGOUT
PRONUNCIATION: (ra-GOO)
MEANING: noun
1. A highly seasoned stew of meat, vegetables, etc.
2. A mixture of disparate elements.
ETYMOLOGY: From French ragoût, from ragouter (to revive the taste), from re- (again) + a-/ad (to) + gout (taste), from Latin gustus (taste). Ultimately from the Indo-European root geus- (to taste or choose), which also gave us choice, choose, gusto, disgust, degust, and pregustator. Earliest documented use: 1652.
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RANGOUT - 1) a spicy stew from the Burmese capital (well, the capital from 1852 to 2005, anyway)
2) what gunshots occasionally did
ORAGOUT - inflammatory arthritis of the temporo-mandibular joint
FRAGOUT - what the disgruntled private did to his hated Drill Sergeant
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Immolate- the technical term for, "My, what big teeth you have."
Immolate- slang term for, "I'm more late than usual."
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IMMOLATE
PRONUNCIATION: (IM-uh-layt)
MEANING: verb tr.: To kill or sacrifice, especially by burning.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin immolare (to sprinkle, to sprinkle with meal before sacrificing), from in- (into) + mola (meal). Earliest documented use: 1548.
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IMPOLATE - ...never did get around to sending those Thank You notes
IMMORATE - No, nothing's wrong
IMMOLATTE - to put in wheat germ before you brew the coffee
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Here it is Sunday. I'll be AFK this week; TTYL
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and ready for another week
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TOP-HAT
PRONUNCIATION: (TOP-hat)
MEANING: noun:
1. A man’s tall, cylindrical hat.
2. An important or high-ranking person.
ETYMOLOGY: From the association of a top hat with people of the upper class. Earliest documented use: 1881.
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TOPHAL - pertaining to the exquisitely painful joint that is Gout
TOP-CHAT - when Kennedy phoned Khrushchev
TIO-PHAT - my half-Latino-half-Vietnamese uncle
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COATTAILPRONUNCIATION: (KOHT-tayl) MEANING: noun: 1. The long back part of a tailcoat that hangs down. 2. The success of another person or organization. Usually used in the idiom “to ride on someone’s coattails” meaning to achieve success by association with someone successful. ETYMOLOGY: Often a popular leader of a political party helps attract votes for candidates of the same party for other positions as well. For example, a popular presidential candidate results in more victories for congressional races of the same party. In other words, these other candidates ride on the coattails of the president. This is known as the coattail effect. From Old French cote (coat) + Old English toegl (tail). Earliest documented use: 1600. ____________________________ COSTTAIL - what you pay for a Malpractice Insurance policy for claims relating to events that that might have happened in the past...after you retire and the policy is no longer in force (the "tail") COALTAIL - The lighter particles which pass over a sieve in the milling, crushing, or purifying of coal (see "tailings") COATTAILI, Zoltan (16 December 1882 – 6 March 1967): Hungarian composer born of Italian parents; ethnomusicologist, pedagogue, linguist, and philosopher, inventer of a method of teaching music, especially for children. See here.
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HAIRSHIRT
PRONUNCIATION: (HAIR-shuhrt)
MEANING: noun:
1. A shirt made of haircloth, worn next to the skin as a penance.
2. A self-imposed punishment or penance.
3. A secret affliction.
ETYMOLOGY: In some faiths, as a sign of penance some people wear garments made of coarse animal hair close to their skin. From Old English haer + scyrte. Earliest documented use: 1737. Also see cilice.
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CHAIRSHIRT - an article of clothing worn by the head of a committee
HAIRSHIFT - put on a different wig
HAIRSHIRE - where Bugs Bunny lived when he was a Hobbit
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STUFFED SHIRT
PRONUNCIATION: (stuhft shuhrt)
MEANING: noun: A pompous, self-satisfied, and old-fashioned person.
ETYMOLOGY: From the formally-dressed look of such a person. Earliest documented use: 1840s.
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STUFFED SKIRT - half a maternity outfit
STIFFED SHIRT - too much starch?
STUFFED HIRT - trumpet player ate way too much
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SLYBOOTS
PRONUNCIATION: (SLY-boots)
MEANING: noun: Someone who is clever or crafty in a playful or engaging way.
ETYMOLOGY
From sly (cunning), from Old Norse sloegr (cunning) + boots (fellow), as in lazyboots. Earliest documented use: 1699.
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SLYBOOTH - the cubicle on the Midway where the slyboots plies his trade (and charges you for it, no less)
SLYBOATS - Pirates of the Caribbean
SLYBOTS - clever little computer subroutines that sniff around the net without letting you know they're there...
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FLAGRANT
PRONUNCIATION: (FLAY-gruhnt)
MEANING: adjective: Conspicuously offensive.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin flagrare (to burn). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bhel- (to shine or burn), which is also the source of blaze, blank, blond, bleach, blanket, flame, refulgent, fulminate, effulgent, and flagrante delicto. Earliest documented use: 1450.
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FLAG-RANT - impassioned statement about injustice unremedied country-wide (cf. Colin Kaepernick)
FLYGRANT - scholarship to Pilot school
FLAGRAFT - command vessel in a fleet of very primitive warships
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Carpal Tunnel
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Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Aug 2001
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MENDACIOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (men-DAY-shuhs)
MEANING: adjective: Telling lies, especially as a habit.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin mendac-, stem of mendax (lying), from mendum (fault or defect) that also gave us amend, emend, and mendicant. Earliest documented use: 1616.
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AMENDACIOUS - changing frequently what one has written or promulgated
MENTACIOUS - full of thoughts about the chin
MENACIOUS - threatening
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