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Mien- You are so mien! (sniff, sniff)
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VITRIOL
PRONUNCIATION: (VI-tree-uhl)
MEANING: noun: Cruel, mean-spirited, bitter criticism.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin vitrum (glass). Sulfuric acid, a highly corrosive substance, was formerly known as oil of vitriol or simply vitriol. It was named vitriol owing to the glassy appearance of its salts. Earliest documented use: 1386.
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VITRIO - 1. Brazilian health additive; 2. an 18-member musical group
EVITRIOL - Juan Peron cursing his wife
ZITRIOL - the active ingredient in your acne remedy
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PRECARIOUSPRONUNCIATION: (pri-KAYR-ee-uhs) MEANING: adjective: Risky; uncertain; insecure; unstable; unsafe. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin precarius (obtained by entreaty, hence uncertain), from prex (prayer). So something precarious is hanging by a prayer, which is, not by much. Ultimately from the Indo-European root prek- (to ask), which also gave us pray, precarious, deprecate, postulate, precatory, and expostulate. Earliest documented use: 1638. ___________________________________ PREVARIOUS - 1. lying; 2. comes before many other things PRECARIBOUS - before there were reindeer PREMARIOUS - for relief of post-menopausal symptoms; made of conjugated equine estrogens, extracted from the urine of PREgnant MARes (see Package Insert)
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DEMAGOGUE (or DEMAGOG)
PRONUNCIATION: (DEM-uh-gog)
MEANING: noun: A person who appeals to the prejudices and emotions of the people to gain power.
verb tr., intr.: To manipulate an issue, to speak, or to act in the manner of a demagogue.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek demagogos (leader of the people), from demos (people) + agogos (leader). Earliest documented use: 1649.
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HEMAGOGUE - ruler with an iron hand
FEMAGOGUE - Chair of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, who is full of prophecies of doom
DECAGOGUE - the Council of Ten
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CONFUTE
PRONUNCIATION: (kuhn-FYOOT)
MEANING: verb tr.: To prove to be wrong.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin confutare (to restrain or silence), from con- (an intensifier) + futare (to beat). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bhau- (to strike), which also gave us refute, beat, button, halibut, and buttress. Earliest documented use: 1529
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CONFLUTE - jailhouse band instrument
ECONFUTE - Reagonomics didn't work
CONFETE - 1. musical instruction meaning "play festively"
2. the little paper dots they drop the Bastille Day parade
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PROPINE
PRONUNCIATION: (pro-PEEN, PYN)
MEANING: verb tr.: To gift, tip, or pledge.
noun: A gift or tip.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin propinare (to drink to someone’s health, to present), from Greek propinein (to drink first, to give), from pro- (for, before) + pinein (to drink). Earliest documented use: 1448.
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PYROPINE - the conifer wood burns well, but it'll coat your chimney with a flammable residue.
PROSINE - against cosines and tangents
PRE-OPINE - My mind is made up; don't confuse me with facts !
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FLOCCULATE
PRONUNCIATION: (FLOK-yuh-layt)
MEANING: verb tr., intr.: To form or cause to form into clumps.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin flocculus, diminutive of Latin floccus (tuft of wool). Earliest documented use: 1826.
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FLOCCULATTE - the cream in my coffee has curdled
FLICCULATE - you French cops took your sweet time getting here
FLOCCULATEX - rubber gloves with lumps in them
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ABSOLVE
PRONUNCIATION:m (ab-ZOLV, -solv)
MEANING: verb tr.: To free from guilt, blame, responsibility, obligation, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin absolvere (to set free), from solvere (to loosen). Ultimately from the Indo-European root leu- (to loosen, divide), which also gave us forlorn, lag, loss, solve, analysis, resolute, and catalyst. Earliest documented use: 1475.
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CABSOLVE - Uber and Lyft and such like
AHSOLVE - Charlie Chan to the rescue
A.B.SOLE - not just a school but a university of fish
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OBJURGATE
PRONUNCIATION: (OB-juhr-gayt)
MEANING: verb tr.: To scold severely.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin objurgare (to scold), from ob- (against) + jurgare/jurigare (to quarrel, to scold). Ultimately from the Indo-European root yewes- (law), which is also the source of jury, judge, just, injury, perjury, conjure, adjure and de jure. Earliest documented use: 1616.
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OBDURGATE - stubbornly denying that there is a scandal ("Nothing happened")
ABJURGATE - ...and disavowing it entirely, too (..."and I didn't do it, either")
O.B.JURYGATE - special entrance for the panel at a malpractice trial
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RUMINATE
PRONUNCIATION: (ROO-mi-nayt)
MEANING: verb tr., intr.: 1. To think deeply upon. 2. To chew the cud.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin ruminare (to chew the cud), from rumen (throat). Earliest documented use: 1533.
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RUMIRATE - 1. the hotel's nightly charge; 2. fee for spreading falsehoods; 3. angry sailors' liquor
RAMINATE - branched
TRUMINATE - Harry S had dinner
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BUSHWA or BUSHWAH
PRONUNCIATION: (BUSH-wa)
MEANING: noun: Nonsense; bull.
ETYMOLOGY: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a mispronunciation of bourgeois. Earliest documented use: 1920.
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BUSHWA - something so outlandish it makes you turn red merely to utter it
BUSTWA - the wheeled vehicle you take from the airport gate to the plane
BUSHWAX - the reason holly leaves are so shiny
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OBAMBULATEPRONUNCIATION: (o-BAM-byuh-layt) MEANING: verb intr.: To walk about. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin ob- (to) + ambulare (to walk). Earliest documented use: 1614. ____________________________________ OX.AMBULATE - to plow a field boustrophedonicallyOBRA.MBULATE - I have a cushy job in Cancun; I just walk around all day OB.AMBU.LATEX - rubber used to make a breathing bag for obstetrical emergencies
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TRUMPERY
PRONUNCIATION: (TRUHM-puh-ree)
MEANING: noun:
1. Something showy but worthless.
2. Nonsense or rubbish.
3. Deceit; fraud; trickery.
ETYMOLOGY: From French tromper (to deceive). Earliest documented use: 1481.
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TRUMPFRY - Donald Jr, Ivanka, Tiffany, and Eric
TRAUMPERY - what a Clinton defeat would be for many
STRUMPERY - playing the guitar with the right hand (Honi soit qui mal y pense)
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HILARITY
PRONUNCIATION: (hi-LAYR-i-tee)
MEANING: noun: Cheerfulness; merriment.
ETYMOLOGY: From French hilarité (hilarity), from Latin hilaris (cheerful), from Greek hilaros (cheerful). Earliest documented use: 1568.
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XHILARITY - 1. the feeling of having great joy and pleasure and pride at your accomplishments; also, strangely enough, 2. what's left after things aren't funny any more
HILLARITY - plate tectonics
HICLARITY - the false sense that you understand the world, that comes after you've had too much to drink
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ORNERY
PRONUNCIATION: (OR-nuh-ree)
MEANING: adjective: Having an unpleasant disposition: irritable, stubborn, combative, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: An alteration of the word ordinary, from Latin ordo (order, rank). In the beginning the word ornery was just a dialect pronunciation of the word ordinary and meant the same. Over time it acquired negative senses, from commonplace to lazy to mean to cantankerous. Earliest documented use: 1692.
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ORTERY - moralistic; someone who judges actions by whether or not they orter
ORNERRY - slopppily commonplace
ORBERY - see ORRERY
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PASSEL
PRONUNCIATION: (PAS-uhl)
MEANING: noun: A large group or a large number.
ETYMOLOGY: Alteration of parcel, from Anglo-French parcele, from Latin particella, diminutive of particula (small part), diminutive of pars (part). Earliest documented use: 1325.
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PARSEL - the language of Nangini the snake
SPASSEL - just my little joke, Fräulein
PASSELI - what Tom B. wants to do, and in as many categories as possible
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PARSEL - the language of Nangini the snake
wise, are you
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(It was meant to be a tongue-in-cheek remark)
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SASSY
PRONUNCIATION: (SAS-ee)
MEANING: adjective: Impudent; bold; outspoken; lively; feisty; stylish.
ETYMOLOGY: Alteration of saucy, from sauce, from Latin salsa, from sallere (to salt), from sal (salt). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sal- (salt), which is also the source of silt, sausage, salad, salami, salary, and salmagundi. Earliest documented use: 1833
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SPASSY - another German joke
SASLY - like a Scandinavian airplane
SASPY - a member of the Peruvian Secret Service
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TARNAL
PRONUNCIATION: (TAHR-nuhl)
MEANING: adjective, adverb: Damned.
ETYMOLOGY: Alteration of eternal (as in “eternal damnation”), from Latin aeternus, from aevum (age). Ultimately from the Indo-European root aiw-/ayu- (vital force, life, eternity), which also gave us ever, never, aye, nay, eon, eternal, medieval, primeval, utopia, Sanskrit Ayurveda, aught, coeval, and coetaneous. Earliest documented use: 1790.
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TSARNAL - the Droit de Seigneur in St. Petersburg; hanky-panky in old Russia
BARNAL - what keeps the mouse population down on upstate Vermont farms
TARNAIL - what a sailor bites when he's nervous
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RAIMENT
PRONUNCIATION: (RAY-muhnt)
MEANING: noun: Clothing.
ETYMOLOGY: Alteration of arrayment, from array, from Old French arrayer (to array). Ultimately from the Indo-European root reidh- (to ride), which also gave us ride, raid, road, and ready. Earliest documented use: 1425.
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VRAIMENT - truly Parisian
PAIMENT - 'ow you buy things
RAIPENT - the Irishman demands you renounce your bad deeds
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HIPPOLOGY
PRONUNCIATION: (hi-POL-uh-jee)
MEANING: noun: The study of horses.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek hippo- (horse) + -logy (study). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ekwo- (horse), which also gave us equestrian, equitant, hippocampus, hippogriff, and the name Philip (lover of horses). Earliest documented use: 1854.
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HIPOLOGY - the study of the leg/pelvis joint
CHIPPOLOGY - INTEL's patent portfolio
HAPPOLOGY - how a Brit says "I'm sorry"
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(And don't forget "hippopotamus" is a "river horse." The Potomac River is redundant.)
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HOPPOLOGY the study of the movement of rabbits and hares and
Kangaroos.
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HYPOGEAL
PRONUNCIATION: (hy-puh-JEE-uhl, HIP-uh-)
MEANING: adjective: Underground: living, growing, or existing below the surface of the earth.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek hypo- (under) + -geal (relating to earth), from ge (earth). Earliest documented use: 1686.
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HYPNOGEAL - sleeping powder that tastes like dirt
HYPOGEL - artificial injectable cartilage for spine discs, or knees, or whatever you'll pay for; see SynVisc
HYPOGOAL - this deltoid muscle right th-e-r-e!
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XEROPHILIC
PRONUNCIATION: (zee-ruh-FIL-ik)
MEANING: adjective: Adapted to a very dry or desert environment.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek xero- (dry) + -philic (liking). Earliest documented use: 1961.
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AEROPHILIC - liking flying
XENOPHILIC - liking strange things
ZEROPHILIC - liking nothing
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HEROPHILIC a fan of Avengers, Legends of Tomorrow, Superman,
Batman and their ilk.
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STEGANOGRAPHYPRONUNCIATION: (ste-guh-NOG-ruh-fee) MEANING: noun: The practice of concealing a message within another nonsecret message. ETYMOLOGY: From Greek stego- (cover) + -graphy (writing). Ultimately from the Indo-European root (s)teg- (to cover), which also gave us thatch, toga, stegosaurus, detect, and protect. Earliest documented use: 1569. NOTES: Examples of steganography: Shrinking the secret text until it’s the size of a dot and then putting it in an unsuspected place, such as the dot on top of a letter i in some innocuous letter. Shaving the head of a man, writing the secret message on his pate with unwashable ink, and then letting the hair grow back before dispatching him to the destination (example from history). To take an example from modern digital techniques, one could put the text of a message in the blank spaces in an image file. _____________________________________ TEGANOGRAPHY - dermatographia ("skin-writing"; from tegmentum, fr. tegmen, fr. tegere) SEGANOGRAPHY - images of a game console STEGANOGRAPH - a picture of Saint Egan
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NIDICOLOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (ny-DIK-uh-luhs)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Remaining with the parents for a long time after birth.
2. Living in the home of another species.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin nidi- (nest) + -colous (inhabiting). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sed- (to sit), which is also the source of nest, sit, chair, saddle, assess, sediment, soot, cathedral, and tetrahedron. Earliest documented use: 1902.
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NIDICOLOURS - the drab earthtones of a bird's-nest in London
RIDICOLOUS - the silly situation of still living with our parents when we're 40
MIDICOLOUS - like the cloacum magnum of the South of France
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CELERITY
PRONUNCIATION: (suh-LER-i-tee)
MEANING: noun: Swiftness; speed.
ETYMOLOGY: From French célérité (promptness), from Latin celer (swift). Earliest documented use: 1483.
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ACELERITY - going nowhere fast
CLERITY - easily understood, in Brooklyn
CELERITE - 1. a mineral that comes in green stringy stalks
2. going faster and faster AND FASTER in Australia
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PRONUNCIATION: (SIM-fi-sis)
MEANING: noun: A growing together.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin, from Greek symphysis (growing together), from syn- (with) + phyein (to grow). Earliest documented use: 1578.
NOTES: The word is often used in anatomy to describe the fusion of two bones, cartilages, etc. It is also used for the line or junction thus formed.
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SYLPHYSIS - a sisterhood of airy wraith-like creatures (see also NYMPHYSIS)
SYMPHNYSIS - my female sib plays for the Philharmonic
SYMPHYSICS - the Unified Theory of Everything
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OPPROBRIOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (uh-PRO-bree-uhs)
MEANING: adjective: 1. Expressing strong criticism. 2. Deserving disgrace.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin opprobrium (reproach), from ob- (against) + probrum (infamy, reproach). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bher- (to carry), which also gave us bear, birth, barrow, burden, fertile, transfer, offer, suffer, euphoria, and metaphor. Earliest documented use: 1410.
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OPPROARIOUS, OPPRORIOUS - laughing out loud
UPPROBRIOUS - what you call disgraceful activity at that university in Sweden (or the city which hosts it)
OPPROBRIOUT - the umpire blew a very important call at home plate
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POLITICPRONUNCIATION: (POL-i-tik) MEANING: adjective: Tactful; shrewd. ETYMOLOGY: From Old French politique (political), from Latin politicus (political), from Greek politikos, from polites (citizen), from polis (city). Earliest documented use: 1427. _______________________________ POLITOC - an elected official who's out of step with the times POLITRIC - Sitting-room magic for Brooklyn POLITEC - a very light, very warm fabric
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COMPORT
PRONUNCIATION: (kuhm-PORT)
MEANING: verb tr.: To conduct (oneself).
verb intr.: To agree with.
ETYMOLOGY: From French comportement (behavior), from comporter (to bear), from Latin comportare (to transport), from com- (with) + portare (to carry). Ultimately from the Indo-European root per- (to lead, pass over), which also gave us support, petroleum, sport, passport, colporteur, rapporteur, deportment, Swedish fartlek, Norwegian fjord, and Sanskrit parvat (mountain). Earliest documented use: 1565.
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COWPORT - where the cattle get off the boat...
COIMPORT - ...brought into the country by more than one person
COMPART - free admission to the Guggenheim
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KAKISTOCRACY
PRONUNCIATION: (kak-i-STOK-ruh-see, kah-ki-)
MEANING: noun: Government by the least qualified or worst persons.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek kakistos (worst), superlative of kakos (bad) + -cracy (rule). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kakka-/kaka- (to defecate), which also gave us poppycock, cacophony, cacology, and cacography. Earliest documented use: 1829.
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KAKISTOCRAZY - the ultimate Bad Trip
PAKISTOCRACY - Government by Islamabad
KOKISTOCRACY - Government by Lord High Executioner
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