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CONCUR
PRONUNCIATION: (KUHN-kuhr)
MEANING: verb intr.: To agree, approve, or coincide.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin concurrere (to run together, meet, or coincide), from con- (with) + currere (to run). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kers- (to run), which also gave us car, career, carpenter, occur, discharge, caricature, au courant, cark, discursive, and succor. Earliest documented use: 1522.
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CONCURD - 1. a kind of cottage cheese; 2. a supersonic commercial airplane, no longer in active service
COINCUR - to take on a debt together, as when two people sign a mortgage
CMONCUR - Get moving, you mangy dog!
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PALINDROME
PRONUNCIATION:
(PAL-in-drohm)
MEANING:
noun: A word, phrase, sentence, or a longer work that reads the same backward and forward. For example, “A man, a plan, a canal, Panama!”
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek palindromos (running again), from palin (again) + dromos (running). Earliest documented use: 1637.
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PALINROME - you have a friend in the old city
PALINGROME - it's turning white
PALINGROME - and they're putting a wall around it
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EXCURSUS
PRONUNCIATION: (ik-SKUHR-suhs, ek-)
MEANING: noun:
1. A detailed discussion about a particular point, especially when added as an appendix.
2. A digression.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin excurrere (to run out), from ex- (out) + currere (to run). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kers- (to run), which also gave us car, career, carpenter, occur, discharge, caricature, au courant, concur, cark, discursive, and succor. Earliest documented use: 1803.
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EXCURCUS - Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bauley, after they close a couple of months from now
LEXCURSUS - Luthor has a few unpleasant things to say about Superman
ENC: URSUS - along with this letter please find one bear
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SADIRON
PRONUNCIATION: (SAD-eye-uhrn)
MEANING: noun: A heavy flatiron pointed at both ends and having a detachable handle.
ETYMOLOGY: From sad (obsolete senses of the word: heavy, solid) + iron. Earliest documented use: 1759.
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SADION - an unhappy charged atom (sometimes molecule)
SADILON - what you put on your horse before you jump on and ride away
SANDIRON - a Trappist golf club
SADICON - (1) a conference of people who like to hurt others; (2) see title, above
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ADORAL
PRONUNCIATION: (ad-OHR-uhl)
MEANING: adjective: Located toward the side or end where the mouth is located, especially in animals that don’t have clear upper and lower sides.
ETYMOLOGY: From ad- (toward) + oral (relating to the mouth), from Latin os (mouth). Earliest documented use: 1862.
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DADORAL - a father in name only
AND/ORAL - mugwumpian; can't make up its mind
ADORAY - technologically-enhanced love potion
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LUSTHOUSE
PRONUNCIATION: (LUST-hous)
MEANING: noun:
1. A country house or a summer house.
2. A tavern with a beer garden.
ETYMOLOGY: From Dutch lusthuis (country house), from German Lusthaus (summer house), from lust (pleasure). Earliest documented use: 1590.
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LUFTHOUSE - literally, "sky-house" - an aircraft hangar
LUSTROUSE - 1. a shining woman; 2. unusually honest name for a provocative perfume
LUNTHOUSE - the former home of theater stars Alfred and Lynn
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BODKIN
PRONUNCIATION: (BOD-kin, -kuhn)
MEANING: noun:
1. A small, pointed instrument for making holes in cloth, etc.
2. A blunt needle for drawing tape or cord through a loop or a hem.
3. A long, ornamental hairpin.
4. A dagger or stiletto.
ETYMOLOGY: Of unknown origin. Earliest documented use: 1386.
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CODKIN - scrod, haddock, or other similar species of fish
BADKIN - the black sheep of the family
BOYKIN - my male second cousin once removed
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ATROPHY
PRONUNCIATION: (A-truh-fee)
MEANING: noun: A wasting away or decline, due to disease, injury, lack of use, etc.
verb tr., intr.: To wither or cause to waste away.
ETYMOLOGY: From French atrophie, from Latin atrophia, from Greek atrophia, from a- (without) + trophe (food). Earliest documented use: 1620.
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GATROPHY - prize for winning the Thugs' Pistol Contest
ATRO.WHY - response to the question "Did you say 'atro-' or 'iatro-'?"
ATOPHY - freedom from gouty nodules
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GEMUTLICH
PRONUNCIATION: (guh-MOOT-lik, -MUT-likh)
MEANING: adjective: Cozy; comfortable; pleasant; friendly.
ETYMOLOGY: From German gemütlich (cozy, comfortable, etc.), from Gemüt (nature, mind, soul) + -lich (-ly). Earliest documented use: 1852. A related word is gemutlichkeit.
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GEMUTLOCH - habitat of Gemut, that other Scottish monster
AGEMUTLICH - get seven years older for every one year that elapses
GEMUTL-ICK - mawkish; cloyingly welcoming
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ANSCHAUUNG
PRONUNCIATION: (AHN-shou-uhng)
MEANING: noun:
1. Intuition.
2. Outlook, attitude, opinion, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From German Anschauung (view, contemplation, perception), from anschauen (to look at), from an- (at) + schauen (to look). Earliest documented use: 1820. Also see weltanschauung.
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ANSCHAULUNG - occupational disease of laborers in the German province of Anschau
ANSCHA HUNG - headline after the posse caught up with horse thief Jesse Anscha
ANSCHAJUNG - aunt of Karl, the famous psychologist
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