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SPAVINED
PRONUNCIATION: (SPAV-ind)
MEANING: adjective: 1. Suffering from spavin, a disease involving swelling of hock joints in a horse. 2. Old; decrepit; broken-down.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French espavain (swelling). Earliest documented use: 1430. ___________________________
SPYVINED - acted like James Bond of the Apes
SPAVEINED - how your legs look after too much time in the Jacuzzi
SPAVITED - Is Dad coming to the party?
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sipavined- a ne'er-do-well red vine sipper
spalined- thru the Vail of Colorado
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PLATITUDINARIAN
PRONUNCIATION: (plat-i-tood-n-AR-ee-uhn, -tyood-)
MEANING: noun: One who utters platitudes or trite remarks.
ETYMOLOGY: From French plat (flat). Ultimately from the Indo-European root plat- (to spread), which is also the root of flat, to flatter, plan, plant, plantain, plateau, plaza, platinum, supplant, and transplant. Earliest documented use: 1854. Remove the initial letter and you get latitudinarian.
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PLATITUDINARINN - a rooming house where the guests can speak to each other only in trite remarks
PLATOTUDINARIAN - one who assumes the attitudes of Greek philosophy
PLATIPUDINARIAN - an animal-lover who dotes on duck-billed egg-laying mammals from eastern Australia and Tasmania
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Splatitudinarian- overbearing, crude, knuckle dragging father
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OROTUND
PRONUNCIATION: (OR-uh-tund)
MEANING: adjective: 1. Strong, clear, rich (as in voice or speech). 2. Pompous, bombastic.
ETYMOLOGY: Contraction of Latin ore rotundo (with a round mouth), from ore, from os (mouth) + rotundo, from rotundus (round), from the Indo-European root ret- (to run or roll). Other words derived from the same root are rodeo, roll, rotary, rotate, rotund, roulette, and round. Earliest documented use: 1799. Remove the initial letter and you get rotund.
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OROBTUND - gold puts me to sleep
OREOTUND - triple-stuffed
OROFUND - dental insurance
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Snuberous- a parent store related to toyserous
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snuberous -  (Never was very fond of begonias, anyway, tuberous or otherwise)
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SUBEROUS
PRONUNCIATION: (SOO-buhr-uhs)
MEANING: adjective: Like cork in appearance or texture.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin suber (cork oak). Earliest documented use: 1670. Remove the initial letter and you get uberous. ________________________________
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SUBZEROUS - very, very cold
SUBHEROUS - not quite worthy of the Medal of Honor
SUBERUS - sold by Japanese car dealers who can't spell
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snuberous -  (Never was very fond of begonias, anyway, tuberous or otherwise) Don't know what that means. Having read that begonias are "watchdogs," I have more insight. If I'd known I would have "put on the dog."
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PARABLE
PRONUNCIATION: (PAR-uh-buhl)
MEANING: noun: A short story that illustrates a moral lesson.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French parable, from Latin parabola (comparison), from Greek parabole (comparison), from paraballein (to compare), from para- (beside) + ballein (to throw). Earliest documented use: 1250. ___________________________________________
PARABBLE - Father was a peasant
PARABOLE - two tree-trunks
PATABLE - couldn't get along together even if they had an income! (PS That's an OLD joke...)
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