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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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?RAPSODE¿- Cultural (mis)appropriation
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