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PUDENCY
PRONUNCIATION: (PYOOD-n-see)
MEANING: noun: Modesty, bashfulness.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin pudentia, from pudere (to make or be ashamed), which also gave us pudendum, impudent, pudibund (prudish), and pudeur (a sense of shame) Earliest documented use: before 1616. ____________________________
PRUDENCY - an attitude adopted to protect one's sense of pudency
LUDENCY - cough-suppressing
PUCENCY - reddish-purple-coloring-mixed-with-gray-or-brown-ness.
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MENSTRUUM
PRONUNCIATION: (MEN-stroo-uhm)
MEANING: noun: A solvent.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin menstruum (menses). Earliest documented use: 1398. ______________________________
MENSTRUM - playing a big ol' bass guitar
MENSTRAUM - old Teutonic quarters reserved for menstruating women
MENSRUUM - public place where men go
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TITTER
PRONUNCIATION: (TIT-uhr)
MEANING: verb intr.: To laugh in a nervous, restrained manner. noun: A nervous, restrained laugh.
ETYMOLOGY: Of imitative origin. Earliest documented use: 1625. ________________________________
TRITTER - one who amplifies everything threefold
TUTTER - one given to apostrophes of mild disapproval
TITSTER - an expert in small birds
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CUNCTITIVE
PRONUNCIATION: (KUNGK-tuh-tiv)
MEANING: adjective: Delaying; slow.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin cunctari (to hesitate, delay). Earliest documented use: 1617 _________________________________
CUNECTITIVE - pertaining to the Nutmeg State
FUNCTITIVE - useful
PUNCTITIVE - devoted to the proper use of the apostrophe, semicolon, and ellipsis
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ACAROPHOBIA
PRONUNCIATION: (ak-uh-ruh-FOE-bee-uh)
MEANING: noun: 1. An extreme fear of small insects. 2. A delusion that one’s skin is infested with bugs. 3. A fear of itching.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek acarus (mite) + -phobia (fear). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sker- (to cut), which is also the source of words such as skirt, sharp, scrape, screw, shard, shears, carnage, curt, carnivorous, excoriate, scrobiculate, hardscrabble, and incarnadine. ____________________________
CAROPHOBIA - fear of caring for something (not necessarily an automobile)
AJAROPHOBIA - terror if in a room with the door open; the inverse of CLAUSTROPHOBIA
SCAROPHOBIA - afraid of being afraid
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EXCLOSURE
PRONUNCIATION: (ik-SKLO-zuhr)
MEANING: noun: A fenced area, especially in a wide open area, to keep unwanted animals out.
ETYMOLOGY: An enclosure keeps wanted animals in, an exclosure keeps unwanted animals out. The word is modeled after the word enclosure, from ex- (out) + closure (barrier), from Latin claudere (to close). Earliest documented use: 1920. __________________________________
EXCLOTURE - after the filibuster is stopped
EXCELOSURE - Of course I use Microsoft's spreadsheet
HEXCLOSURE - 1. the raging storm at Saturn's North Pole 2. any fastener requiring an Allen wrench
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UNTRACK
PRONUNCIATION: (uhn-TRAK)
MEANING: verb tr.: To remove from a track; change course.
ETYMOLOGY: From Middle English un- (a reversal) + Middle French trac (track). Earliest documented use: 1889. _________________________________
SUNTRACK - an analemma
UNBRACK - desalinate
UNURACK - set up the fifteen numbered balls for the former Premier of Burma
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MISE EN ABYME
PRONUNCIATION: (mee-zan-nah-BEEM)
MEANING: noun: Self-reflection in a literary work, a work of art, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From French mise en abyme/abîme (placed into abyss). Originally, the term applied to heraldic shields in which a smaller shield was put into the center of the shield. Earliest documented use: 1968.
NOTES: Some examples are play within a play (Hamlet), story within a story, film within a film, dream within a dream, the placement of a small copy of a work within itself, infinite reflection between two facing mirrors, etc. __________________________________
MISE EN ABYSME - thrown into the depths and abandoned (see "a pit in Dothan")
MUSE EN ABYME - Melpomeme, who was in charge of Tragic Poetry
MA SEEN A "BY-ME" - My mother watched her card-playing friends Pass. And she doesn't use very good grammar, either.
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ZETETIC
PRONUNCIATION: (zuh-TET-ik)
MEANING: adjective: Proceeding by inquiry, search, or investigation. noun: A skeptic or inquirer.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek zetein (to seek or inquire). Earliest documented use: 1645.
NOTES: Samuel Rowbotham (1816-1884), a flat Earther, wrote a book called Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not a Globe in 1881. Yesterday’s flat Earthers are today’s climate change denialists. ________________________________
E-ZETETIC - promoting effortless weight loss
CETETIC - 1. waxy; 2. from a whale
ZITETIC - acne-inducing
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KLEPTOMANIA
PRONUNCIATION: (klep-tuh-MAY-nee-uh)
MEANING: noun: An obsessive urge to steal, driven by emotional disturbance rather than material need.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek klepto- (theft) + -mania (madness). Earliest documented use: 1830. ___________________________
KLEPTOMARIA - theft of religious icons
SLEPTOMANIA - malignant narcolepsy, e.g. a typical teenager
LEPTOMANIA - crazy thinking as a symptom of Weil's Disease (Leptospirosis)
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