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SWAMI
PRONUNCIATION: (SWAM-ee)
MEANING: noun:
1. A religious teacher, mystic, or yogi.
2. A learned man: pundit.
ETYMOLOGY: From Hindi swami (master), from Sanskrit swami (master, lord). Ultimately from the Indo-European root s(w)e- (third person reflexive pronoun), which also gave us self, sibling, suicide, secret, sober, sullen, idiot, and Irish Sinn Fein (literally, We Ourselves). Earliest documented use: 1773.
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SWANI - river in Florida
'OWAMI - phrase preceding the answer "Pretty well, thanks!"
SHAMI - Irish detectives (pl. of SHAMUS)
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KARMAPRONUNCIATION: (KAHR-ma) MEANING: noun: 1. A person’s action (bad or good) that determines his or her destiny, in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. 2. Destiny; fate. 3. An aura or atmosphere generated by someone or something. ETYMOLOGY: From Sanskrit karma (deed, work). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kwer- (to make), which also gave us tera- (trillion), Farsi lashkar (army), and the word Sanskrit (literally, well-formed). Earliest documented use: 1827. NOTES: In Hinduism, after death a person is reborn to pay for bad actions or to enjoy the rewards of good actions in the previous life. The goal of life is to become free from the cycle of birth and death: nirvana (blowing out, extinguishing). _____________________________________ WARMA - Boston weather in the Spring KATMA - diminutive name for the capital of Nepal KABMA - what you ask your mother to call you when you need a taxi 
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COCK-UP, COCK UP, COCKUP
PRONUNCIATION: (KOK-up)
MEANING: noun: 1. complete mess; a blunder.
2. An upward turn.
verb tr.: 1. To botch.
2. To turn upward or curl.
ETYMOLOGY: From English cock (to turn up or to one side), from cock (rooster). The first sense of the word is a construction parallel to “screw-up” probably influenced by the slang sense of the word cock. Earliest documented use: 1693.
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CORKUP - what you do to the wine bottle when you want to save what's left
COCOUP - two people together overthrow the government
COCKUPU - the offspring of a cocker-spaniel and a pudle
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CRAPULOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (KRAP-yuh-luhs)
MEANING: adjective: Sick from excessive drinking or eating.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin crapula (drunkenness), from Greek kraipale (hangover, drunkenness). Earliest documented use: 1540. Also crapulent.
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CRAMPULOUS - I ate a great big lunch and then I went swimming right away
CAPULOUS - pertaining to Juliet's extended family
CRAPULOTUS - meditative position assumed after over-indulging
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PRICKET
PRONUNCIATION: (PRIK-it)
MEANING: noun: 1. A sharp point or spike for holding a candle.
2. A male deer in its second year, before the antlers have branched.
ETYMOLOGY: Diminutive of prick/prik, from Old English prica (point). Earliest documented use: 1331.
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APRICKET - a yellow-orange fruit with fuzzy skin and but a single stone
PARICKET - a yellow-orange small bird, commonly domesticated
PICKET - choose a sci-fi film about a (sort of) yellow-orange alien who gets marooned and has to phone home
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FARD
PRONUNCIATION: (fahrd)
MEANING: noun: Makeup
verb tr.: 1. To apply makeup.
2. To embellish or gloss over.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French fard (makeup), from farden (to apply makeup), of Germanic origin. Earliest documented use: 1450.
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FIARD - mountainous port in northeast Norway
FAWRD - opposite of "aft," on a boat in the fiard
FĀLD - flunked the spelling test
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CUNCTATION
PRONUNCIATION: (kungk-TAY-shunn)
MEANING: noun: Delay; procrastination; tardiness.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin cunctari (to hesitate, delay). Earliest documented use: 1585.
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CUNCTARION - one who sees things in their entirety
UNCTATION - the application of a nard
PUNCTATION - periods and colons an' such, without regard for spellng
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Junctation- the process of heavily padding an inheritance
Functation- creating a fun situation
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Satorii- moment of transition
Eat out
The wife you save
May be your own
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SATORIPRONUNCIATION: (suh-TOR-ee) MEANING: noun: Sudden enlightenment or intuitive understanding. ETYMOLOGY: From Japanese satori (understanding), from satoru (to know or understand). Earliest documented use: 1727. ______________________ LSATORI - that moment when you realize you really don't want to go to Law School SARTORI - sudden acquisition of a sense of fashion SAVORI - the fifth flavor, after sweet, sour, bitter, and salty (see UMAMI) (no, really!)
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Hogira- Pigita's mother, cast in Pearls Before Swine
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HEGIRA
PRONUNCIATION: (hi-JY-ruh, HEJ-uhr-uh)
MEANING: noun: A journey or migration, especially when taken to escape an undesirable situation.
ETYMOLOGY: From the flight of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE to escape persecution. From Arabic hijra (departure), from hajara (to depart). Earliest documented use: 1590.
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HEGILA - a male venomous lizard from SW US/NW Mexico
HEGIRO - mother of all submarine sandwiches (combination of HERO and GYRO)
MEGIRA - Bill Gates' retirement fund
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PRONUNCIAMENTO
PRONUNCIATION: (proh-nun-see-uh-MEN-toh)
MEANING: noun: An official or authoritarian announcement.
ETYMOLOGY: From Spanish pronunciamiento (pronouncement, military uprising), from pronunciar (to pronounce), from Latin pronuntiare (to put forth), from pro- (toward) + nuntiare (to announce). Ultimately from the Indo-European root neu- (to shout), which also gave us announce, denounce, pronounce, and renounce. Earliest documented use: 1832.
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PRONUNCIAMENTOR - your advisor about how words should sound
PRENUNCIAMENTO - before he got to be spokesman for the Pope
PRONOUN-CIA-MENTO - thinking of the Central Intelligence Agency as "it"
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BOBBERYPRONUNCIATION: (BOB-uh-ree) MEANING: noun: Squabble; commotion; confusion. ETYMOLOGY: A corruption of Hindi “bap re” (literally, oh father!), an exclamation of surprise, grief, etc., from bap (father) + re (oh). Earliest documented use: 1816. ____________________________ BOBBERY - the practice of removing the tail from animals BBBERY - government by business bureau BOBBERAY - radio comedians from the 1950s ( Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding)
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CAMORRA
PRONUNCIATION: (kuh-MOR-uh)
MEANING: noun: A secret group united for unscrupulous purposes.
ETYMOLOGY: After Camorra, a secret organization in Naples, Italy, engaged in criminal activities. From Italian, possibly from Spanish camorra (fight). Earliest documented use: 1865.
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CLAMORRA - lotsa noise
CAMO-NRA - you can't see them; the way they're dressed they blend right into the background
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QUOTIDIAN
PRONUNCIATION: (kwo-TID-ee-uhn)
MEANING: adjective: 1. Commonplace; ordinary. 2. Occurring every day.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French cotidian, from Latin quotidianus/cotidianus, from quotidie (each day), from quot (how many). Earliest documented use: 1393.
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DUOTIDIAN - twice every day
QUOTHDIAN - The late Princess of Wales said...
QUOTICIAN - John Bartlett, 1820 – 1905
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EFFLUVIUM
PRONUNCIATION: (i-FLOO-vee-uhm)
MEANING: noun: An unpleasant discharge, for example, fumes, vapors, or gases from waste or decaying matter.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin effluere (to flow out), from ex- (out) + fluere (to flow). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bhleu- (to swell or overflow), from which flow words such as affluent, influence, influenza, fluctuate, fluent, fluid, fluoride, flush, flux, reflux, and superfluous. profluent, mellifluous, fluvial, affluenza, and affluential. Earliest documented use: 1646.
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EFFLIVIUM - a very loud Latin poem
BFFLUVIUM - a love potion for the 21st Century
EFFLUVIRUM - a hoax remedy purported to exorcise the germs
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INEFFABLE
PRONUNCIATION: (in-EF-uh-buhl)
MEANING: adjective: 1. Incapable of being expressed: indescribable.
2. Not to be expressed: taboo.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin in- (not) + effari (to speak out), from ex- (out) + Latin fari (to speak). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bha- (to speak), which also gave us fable, fairy, fate, fame, blame, confess, and infant (literally, one unable to speak), apophasis, and confabulate. Earliest documented use: 1450.
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INEZFABLE - a short parable with a moral, written by the Aztec scribe Inez
INEFFABLUE - very sad but can't explain why...
ONE-FFABLE - eligible for Selective Service classification 1-FF
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VISAGE
PRONUNCIATION: (VIZ-ij)
MEANING: noun: Face, appearance, or expression.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French vis (face), from Latin visus (sight, appearance), from videre (to see). Ultimately from the Indo-European root weid- (to see), which also gave us guide, wise, vision, advice, idea, story, history, previse, videlicet, vidimus, vizard, and invidious. Earliest documented use: 1303.
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VI-PAGE - about how long your 1,500-word double-spaced paper about the History of Ancient Rome should be
EISAGE - when the glaciers covered all of Europe down to Germany
AVISAGE - an herb used to flavor Roast Bird
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INEXORABLE
PRONUNCIATION: (in-EK-suhr-uh-buhl)
MEANING: adjective: Incapable of being persuaded, moved, or stopped.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin in- (not) + exorare (to prevail upon), from ex- (out) + orare (to pray, beg). Earliest documented use: 1553.
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INEXORA-BLED - hemophiliac
INEXXORABLE - the Dakota Access pipeline
INEXORABLEU - the ultimate triumph of cheese
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VERKLEMPT
PRONUNCIATION: (fuhr-KLEMT, vuhr-)
MEANING: adjective: Overcome with emotion; choked up.
ETYMOLOGY: From Yiddish farklempt (overcome with emotion), from German verklemmt (inhibited). Earliest documented use: 1991.
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OVERKLEMPT - melodramatic
VERKLE-MPG - what kind of gas milage does that new German car get?
VERKLEPT - obtained by shoplifting
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YENTZ
PRONUNCIATION: (yents)
MEANING: verb tr.: To cheat.
ETYMOLOGY: From Yiddish yentzen (to copulate). Earliest documented use: 1930.
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SYENTZ - what the partially-educated think physics and chemistry are
YEN-TP - what the Yen indians dwell in
YEN-TM - the Japanese have trademarked their currency
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POTCH
PRONUNCIATION: (poch)
MEANING:
verb. tr.: To slap or spank.
noun: A slap or spanking.
ETYMOLOGY: From Yiddish patshn (to slap), of imitative origin. Earliest documented use: 1892.
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I-POTCH - worn by an Apple software pirate with a Boston accent
pH-TCH - Dummy, you got the acidity wrong
P.O.TECH - an ultra-miniaturized electronic device that is swallowed
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FUTZ
PRONUNCIATION: (fuhts)
MEANING: verb intr.
1. To waste time or to idle.
2. To meddle or fiddle with something.
ETYMOLOGY: Perhaps from Yiddish arumfartsn (to fart around), from arum- (around) + fartsn (to fart). Earliest documented use: 1932.
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FFUTZ - Those are very noisy potato chips!
HUT Z - where the Enigma codebreakers went to take a short nap when they were so tired they fell asleep at their tables
FUTV - call letters of the television station staffed by Communications majors at Fordham University
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Mutz- dog farts [false]
Cutz- cut with a spoon (because it hurtz worse)
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SCHMATTE or SHMATTE
PRONUNCIATION: (SHMAH-tuh)
MEANING: noun:
1. A rag.
2. An old, ragged article of clothing.
3. Any garment.
ETYMOLOGY: From Yiddish schmatte, from Polish szmata (rag). Earliest documented use: 1970.
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SHMARTTE - wise; viz. old Pennsylvania Dutch proverb "We get too soon Olde and too late Shmartte!"
ASHMATTE - an asbestos pad lining your fireplace to make cleaning up easier
SCHEMATTE - detailed plans or specifications
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GNATHONIC
PRONUNCIATION: (na-THON-ik)
MEANING: adjective: Sycophantic.
ETYMOLOGY: From Gnatho, a sycophant in the comedy Eunuchus (The Eunuch) by the Roman playwright Terence, written in 161 BCE. The name is coined from the Greek word gnathos (jaw). The subject of Gnatho’s flattery, Thraso, has also given a word to the English language: thrasonical. Earliest documented use: 1637.
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NATHONIC - like a Coney Island hot dog
GRATHONIC - my lawn with a lisp
IGNATHONIC - pertaining to St Ignatz
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BOVARISMPRONUNCIATION: (BO-vuh-riz-em) MEANING: noun: A romanticized, unrealistic view of oneself. ETYMOLOGY: From Emma Bovary, the title character in Gustave Flaubert’s 1857 novel Madame Bovary. Earliest documented use: 1902. ______________________________ OVARISM - an egg fetish ABOVARISM - taking the high road BOKARISM - insisting on strong dark coffee in a black A&P bag ( disestablished 2012)  (It's amazing what people think it's worth writing about in Wikipedia!)
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MRS GRUNDYMrs. Grundy, a teacher in Archie Comics, [wa]s inspired by the original Mrs. Grundy  Bob Montana/Jackpot Comics, 1941 PRONUNCIATION: (MIS-iz GRUND-ee) MEANING: noun: An extremely conventional or priggish person. ETYMOLOGY: After Mrs. Grundy, a character in the 1798 play Speed the Plough by Thomas Morton. Mrs. Grundy never appears on the stage, but her neighbor Dame Ashfield constantly worries about “What will Mrs. Grundy say?” Earliest documented use: 1813. ___________________________ MRS GROUNDY - feminist equivalent of Punxatawney Phil; looks for signs of Spring on Groundhog Day MRSA GRUNDY - a particularly virulent strain of Methicillin-Resistant Staph. Aureus NRS GRUNDY - the first name considered for the nurse in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, later discarded if favor of Nurse Ratched
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STRUWWELPETER
PRONUNCIATION: (STROO-uhl-pee-tuhr)
MEANING: noun: A person with long, thick, disheveled hair.
ETYMOLOGY: From Struwwelpeter, the title character of the 1845 children’s book Der Struwwelpeter (Shockheaded Peter) by Heinrich Hoffman. Earliest documented use: 1909.
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STRUWDELPETER - Peter likes pastries with his coffee
STRUWWELMETER - a device to measure the unruliness of one's coif
STRUWWELPATER - my Dad really needs a haircut
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GARGANTUA
PRONUNCIATION: (gar-GAN-choo-uh)
MEANING: noun: A giant in size, feats, stature, or (physical or intellectual) appetites.
ETYMOLOGY: After Gargantua, a voracious giant, the father of Pantagruel, in a series of novels by François Rabelais (c. 1490-1553). The son also has given a word to the English language: pantagruelian. Earliest documented use: 1571.
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GARGANTIA - antonym of MINUTIA
GARANTULA - a giant spider, like Ron Weasley hates (yes, yes, I know)
GARAGANTUA - big enough to house all your Rolls-Royces
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Gargauntua- Anu's Aunt Ua
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