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DADOLESCE = teenage parenthood
Lol, The Edge of Seventeen meets Peggy Sue Got Married 😳 I have two teenagers remaining
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LODESTAR
PRONUNCIATION: (LOAD-stahr)
MEANING: noun: Someone or something that serves as a guiding principle, model, inspiration, ambition, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English lad (way) + star. A lodestar is called so because it’s used in navigation, it shows the way. Earliest documented use: 1374.
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LODESTAIR - how you get from one mine level to another
LODESITAR- Indian music played on this instrument has a certain magnetic quality to it, don't you agree?
LODGESTAR - the Worshipful Master
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Lorde-Star- fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.
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ulipinous- sweet southern sass
upiginous- having a cheeky quality
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ULIGINOUS
PRONUNCIATION:
(yoo-LIJ-uh-nuhs)
MEANING:
adjective: Swampy; slimy; slippery.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin uligo (moisture). Earliest documented use: 1576.
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URLIGINOUS - generating Web addresses
UBIGINOUS - making a place somewhere
ULIGINOPUS - music for performance on bagpipes (Uillean pipes)
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SUPERBITY
PRONUNCIATION: (soo-PUHR-buh-tee)
MEANING: noun: Pride; arrogance.
ETYMOLOGY: From Middle French superbité, from superbe (superb). Earliest documented use: 1450.
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SUPERBITE - prognathism
SUBERBITY - bedroom-community-ness
LUPERBITY - wolfishness
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superkity- currency of skittles when playing Exploding Kittens
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ANALPHABETIC
PRONUNCIATION: (an-al-fuh-BET-ik)
MEANING: adjective: 1. Illiterate. 2. Not alphabetical.
noun: An illiterate person.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek analphabetos (not knowing the alphabet), from an- (not) + alphabetos (alphabet), from alpha + beta. Earliest documented use: 1876.
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ANAL-HABETIC - communicating via flatulence
ANIL-PHABETIC - purple prose (occasionally other colors)
AN-ALPH-ACETIC - a Sacred River of vinegar
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Anolphabetic- Suffering from a decrease in an estrogenic constituent of LAD causing mensopause discomfort
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APPETENCE
PRONUNCIATION: (A-puh-tuhns)
MEANING: noun: A strong desire or inclination.
ETYMOLOGY: From French appétence (desire), from Latin appetentia, from appetere (to seek after), ad- (to) + petere (to seek). Ultimately from the Indo-European root pet- (to rush or fly), which also gave us appetite, feather, petition, compete, perpetual, propitious, impetuous, petulant, pteridology, pinnate, and lepidopterology. Earliest documented use: 1610.
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APPETENSE - whenever I'm worried, eating loses its appeal
APPENTENCE - this time it's OK, but if it happens again I'll feel bad about it
APPETENUCE - its square is some of the squares of the other toes ides
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OSMOSIS
PRONUNCIATION: (oz-MOH-sis, os-)
MEANING: noun: 1. A gradual, unconscious assimilation of information, ideas, etc.
2. Movement of a solvent through a semipermeable membrane from a lower solute concentration to higher concentration, thus equalizing concentrations on both sides.
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From Greek osmos (a push). Earliest documented use: 1863.
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O-SUM-OSIS - whatever you win, I lose
OS-MOO-SIS - getting the cow to produce without using a milking machine
OSMOSES - crossing the Red Sea without actually pushing aside all that water; also, what Moses moved when he spake
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Cosmosis- Caltech sorority mixer
Losmosis- non- conventional illumination
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SOLVENT
PRONUNCIATION: (SOL-vuhnt)
MEANING:
adjective: 1. Able to pay one’s debts.
2. Able to dissolve another substance.
noun: 1. Something that dissolves another.
2. Something that solves a problem.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin solvere (to loosen, to dissolve, to pay). Ultimately from the Indo-European root pleu- (to flow), that is also the source of flow, float, flit, fly, flutter, pulmonary, pneumonic, pluvial, fluvial, effluvium, fletcher, and plutocracy. Earliest documented use: 1653.
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SOLWENT - Solomon has left the building
SOLVEST - Number One Puzzler
SOLBENT - phototropic
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CAUSTIC
PRONUNCIATION: (KAW-stik)
MEANING: adjective: 1. Capable of burning or corroding.
2. Highly critical; sarcastic.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin causticus, from Greek kaustikos, from kaustos (combustible), from kaiein, (to burn). Earliest documented use: 1555.
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CRUSTIC - what you paint on top of a roll so the seeds won't fall off
CAUSTIN - 100 capitals of Texas
CAMUSTIC - the author of The Stranger has an involuntary twitch on his cheek
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Maustic- rolling pin
Paustic- dowser
Naustic- vapestick
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Brosidic- Brothers of Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations
. and in the ways our differences can combine to create new truth and beauty." (Mr. Spock and Dr. Miranda Jones, quoting Surak) of
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BROMIDIC
PRONUNCIATION: (broh-MID-ik)
MEANING: adjective: Commonplace; trite.
ETYMOLOGY: From the former use of bromide compounds as sedatives. Bromine got its name from the Greek bromos (stench) due to its strong smell. Earliest documented use: 1906.
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PROMIDIC - you'll need a Student Card before they'll admit you to the dance
BIOMIDIC - pretentious word for "mid-life crisis"
BOOMIDIC - identifying supersonic aircraft from their ground-level noise
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MISCIBLE
PRONUNCIATION: (MIS-uh-buhl)
MEANING: adjective: Capable of being mixed together.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin miscere (to mix), ultimately from the Indo-European root meik- (to mix), which is also the source of mix, miscellaneous, meddle, medley, promiscuous, melee, mustang, admix, immix, and panmixia. Earliest documented use: 1570.
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MISCICLE - this ice pop is so cold, people get heart attacks after eating them
MISCABLE - wired my TV set all wrong
MISBIBLE - quoting the wrong Scripture
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Riscible- general-purpose laughter
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EARWIG
PRONUNCIATION: (EER-wig)
MEANING:
noun: Any of various insects of the order Dermaptera, having a pair of pincers at the rear of the abdomen.
verb tr.: To influence or bias a person by insinuations.
verb intr.: To secretly listen to a conversation.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English earwicga (earwig), from ear + wicga (insect). From the ancient belief that this insect crawled into people’s ears to reach their brains. Earliest documented use: before 1000.
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BARWIG - worn so nobody will recognize you
EARWII - a miniature game console, with lots of sound output
EARWIK - air freshener for folks with a smelly discharge from their ears
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GADFLY
PRONUNCIATION: (GAD-fly)
MEANING: noun:
1. Any of the various types of flies that bite or annoy livestock.
2. One who persistently annoys.
ETYMOLOGY: From gad (a goad for cattle), from Middle English, from Old Norse gaddr. Earliest documented use: 1626.
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GLADFLY - one that has avoided a spider's web at the last minute
GAFFLY - how you behave after encountering a violent fisherman with a long barbed spear
WADFLY - what happens to a mis-aimed chaw of tobacco
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PUCE
PRONUNCIATION: (pyoos)
MEANING: noun: A dark red or brownish purple color.
adjective: Of this color.
ETYMOLOGY: From French puce (flea), from Latin pulex (flea). Earliest documented use: 1778. Other terms coined after the flea are flea market, a direct translation of French marché aux puces, and ukulele (from Hawaiian, literally leaping flea, perhaps from the rapid motion of the fingers in playing the instrument).
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PUIE - a French toddler's attempt to say "rain"
PIUCE - the spot on your windshield after you smash into a flying bug at highway speeds
PUCHE - high-falutin' way of writing "doggie"
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Pulce - pulce represents the tactile arterial palpation of the A.I. heartbeat by trained fingertips.
Patterns:
Pulcus Bigeminus- grim heartbeat typical of middle age onset.
Pulcus Paradoxus - a condition in which some heartbeats cannot be detected at the radial artery during the inspiration phase.
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...not to mention Pulcus Alternans, the heartbeat of the Far Right,
and Pulcus Parvis et Tardis, the heartbeat of Dr Who...
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PAPARAZZO
PRONUNCIATION: (pah-puh-RAHT-so)
MEANING: noun: A photographer who follows famous people to take their pictures for publication.
ETYMOLOGY: From Paparazzo, the name of a photographer in Federico Fellini’s 1959 film La Dolce Vita. Fellini got the name via scriptwriter Ennio Flaiano who picked it from the 1901 travel book By the Ionian Sea. The book mentions a hotel owner named Coriolano Paparazzo. Fellini claimed at another time that the name Paparazzo suggested to him “a buzzing insect, hovering, darting, stinging”. Earliest documented use: 1961.
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PAMPARAZZO - photographer for National Geographic; working out of Buenos Aires, and renowned for his pictures of llamas and other Andean wildlife
POPARAZZO - takes clandestine pictures, exclusively at the Vatican
MAPARAZZI - my parents run the photography business together
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...not to mention Pulcus Alternans, the heartbeat of the Far Right,
and Pulcus Parvis et Tardis, the heartbeat of Dr Who...
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ECDYSIS
PRONUNCIATION: (EK-duh-sis)
MEANING: noun: The shedding of an outer layer: molting.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek ekdysis, from ekdyein (to take off), from ek- (out, off) + dyein (to put on). A related word is ecdysiast. Earliest documented use: 1867.
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ECDYSISE - to dress, undress, and redress vigorously, so as to stay physically fit
PECDYSIS - mastectomy
ETC.DYSIS - opening a matryoshka doll set
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Ecodysis- sunset sunset [img][img] http://i.imgur.com/gVH0FM7.jpg[/img][/img]
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paraphrasing: Ecodysis- sunset sunset ![[Linked Image]](http://i.imgur.com/gVH0FM7.jpg)
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CHRYSALIS
PRONUNCIATION: (KRIS-uh-lis)
plural chrysalises or chrysalides (kri-SAL-i-deez)
MEANING: noun:
1. A pupa of a moth or butterfly, enclosed in a cocoon.
2. A protective covering.
3. A transitional or developmental stage.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin chrysallis (gold-colored pupa of a butterfly), from Greek khrusos (gold). Earliest documented use: 1658.
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CHRYSALISE - after too many drinks, I saw solids start to form and precipitate out of solution
CHORYSALIS - to take a Gregorian Chant and re-score it for four-part harmony
CHRYSABLIS - a hybrid wine formed by mixing Chablis with a Highly Redolent Yet Subtle proprietary additive
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IMAGO
PRONUNCIATION: (i-MAY-go, -MAH-)
plural imagoes or imagines (i-MAY-guh-neez)
MEANING: noun:
1. The final or adult stage of an insect.
2. An idealized image of someone, formed in childhood and persisting in later life.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin imago (image). Ultimately from the Indo-European root aim- (copy), which also gave us emulate, imitate, image, imagine, and emulous. Earliest documented use: 1787.
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IMPGO - Scram, you little devil !
IMA-DO - Philanthropist Hogg's coiffure
IMAGOD - "I think, therefore I am" - Jehovah
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TOUR DE FORCE
PRONUNCIATION: (toor duh FORS)
plural tours de force (toor duh FORS)
MEANING: noun: A feat of strength, skill, or ingenuity: an exceptional performance or achievement.
ETYMOLOGY: From French tour (turn, feat) + de (of) + force (strength). Earliest documented use: 1802.
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TOUR DE FARCE - Monty Python's Flying Circus will be coming to town this summer!
TOUR DE FORGE - see Vulcan's Workshop while you're on vacation
FOUR DE FORCE - Luke, Leia, Anakin, and Yoda
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BOURGEOIS
PRONUNCIATION: (boor-ZHWAH, BOOR-zhwah)
plural bourgeois (boor-ZHWAH, BOOR-zhwah)
MEANING: noun:
1. A member of the middle class.
2. One who exhibits behavior in conformity to the conventions of the middle class.
3. In Marxist theory, a member of the capitalist class.
adjective:
1. Belonging to the middle class.
2. Marked by a concern for respectability and material interests.
3. Mediocre or unimaginative: lacking artistic refinement.
ETYMOLOGY: From French bourgeois, from Latin burgus (fortress, fortified town), from West Germanic burg. Ultimately from the Indo-European root bhergh- (high) which is also the source of iceberg, belfry, borough, burg, burglar, bourgeois, fortify, and force. Earliest documented use: 1564.
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COURGEOIS - brave, but can't spell very well...
BOY-URGE-O-IS - testosterone-driven
BOURGE-POIS - green peas from Burgundy
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OXYMORON
PRONUNCIATION:
ok-see-MOR-on, -mor-)
plural oxymorons or oxymora (ok-see-MOR-uh, -mor-uh)
MEANING: noun: A figure of speech in which two contradictory terms appear together for emphasis, for example, “deafening silence”.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek oxymoron, from neuter of oxymoros (sharp dull), from oxys (sharp) + moros (dull). The word moron comes from the same root. Earliest documented use: 1656.
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POXYMORON - musta had a nasty case of acne in his youth
DOXYMORON - a concubine who isn't very bright
OXYMOROON - my field may be plowed by boustrophedon, but it's purple!
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moxymoron- an expert moron
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FOXYMORON - a dumb blonde, but ooh-la-la!
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ORPHIC
PRONUNCIATION: (OR-fik)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Melodious; entrancing.
2. Mystical; occult.
ETYMOLOGY: After Orpheus, a musician, poet, and prophet in Greek mythology. His lyre-playing and singing could charm animals, trees, and even rocks. After his wife Eurydice, a nymph, died of a snakebite, he traveled to the underworld to bring her back. His music melted the heart of Hades, the god of the underworld, who allowed him to take his wife back on the condition that he not look back at her until they had reached the world of the living. They had almost made it when he looked back and lost her again. His mother Calliope/Kalliope has also given a word to the English language: calliopean. Earliest documented use: 1656.
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MORPHIC - sleepifying
MORPHIC - shape-changifying
ORCHIC - stylish, maybe
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MYRMIDON
PRONUNCIATION: (MUHR-mi-dahn, -duhn)
MEANING: noun: One who unquestioningly follows orders.
ETYMOLOGY: In Greek mythology, the Myrmidons were led by Achilles in the Trojan War. The name is possibly from Greek myrmex (ant). In a version of the story, Zeus created Myrmidons from ants. Earliest documented use: 1425.
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MYRMIDOL - women with fishtails have fewer menstrual symptoms when they use this
MYRMIDOC - I can hardly hear the MD; he mumbles a lot...
MYOMIDON - ...but I think he's trying to tell me I have some kind of muscle problem
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