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AILUROPHOBIA
PRONUNCIATION: (ai-loor-uh-FOH-bee-uh, ay-)
MEANING: noun: A fear of cats.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek ailuro- (cat) + phobia (fear). Earliest documented use: 1905. _____________________
MAILUROPHOBIA - fear of getting prostate cancer
AXILUROPHOBIA - fear of armpits
ALLUROPHOBIA - fear of being attractive
ABLUROPHOBIA - My eyes! I can't see!
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PYROMANIA
PRONUNCIATION: (py-roh-MAY-nee-uh, -MAYN-yuh)
MEANING: noun: An obsessive impulse to start fires.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek pyro- (fire) + -mania (excessive enthusiasm or craze). Earliest documented use: 1840. ______________________
PROMANIA - I'm just wild about professionals...
PYGOMANIA - ...and fascinated by backsides
PO ROMANIA - the river and the European country it doesn't flow through
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CLAUSTROPHOBIA
PRONUNCIATION: (klo-struh-FO-bee-uh)
MEANING: noun: A fear of being in a confined place or a restrictive situation.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin claustrum (lock, bolt, confined place) + -phobia (fear). Earliest documented use: 1879. The opposite is agoraphobia. __________________________
CLASSTROPHOBIA - fear of being the best of one's kind
CLUSTROPHOBIA - fear of being part of a bunch CLAUSTROPHOBIA - fear of being the World's Best Santa
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Pyromanina- hot little hands
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Pyromaniña - señorita with a hot temper ?
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Plato is my friend — Aristotle is my friend — but my greatest friend is truth. If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants... Claustrophibia- Musculskeletal stress. (When the tibia is broken it may cause edema. In some cases claustrophibia occurs.) I came across Che Gelida Manina recently during a project on The Three Tenors. Timing.
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SILLAGE
PRONUNCIATION: (see-AHZH)
MEANING: noun: The trail of scent that lingers behind from a perfume; also, the degree to which it lingers.
ETYMOLOGY: From French sillage (wake, trail). Earliest documented use: early 1800s. _______________________
ILLAGE - the total amount of time spent being sick
SILLRAGE - uncontrollable fury at seeing dead insects right outside your window
SILTAGE - all that fine dirt clogging the harbor (see also FILLAGE)
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Snillage- the effect of kindness and helpfulness
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ANDROCRACY
PRONUNCIATION: (an-DROK-ruh-see)
MEANING: noun: A system ruled by men.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin andro- (male), from Greek + -cracy (rule). Earliest documented use: 1903. ___________________
ADDOCRACY - government by accretion (see also ANDOCRACY)
AND/ORCRACY - government that goes two steps forward, one step back
ANY-ROCRACY - government at random
MANDROCRACY - you don't really want me to explain that, now do you?
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PINETUM
PRONUNCIATION: (py-NEE-tuhm)
MEANING: noun: An arboretum of coniferous trees such as pines.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin pinetum (pine grove), from pinus (pine). Earliest documented use: 1828 _______________________________
SPINETUM - a place where small upright pianos are grown
OPINETUM - a place where opinions are thoughtfully digested
PRINETUM - very poorly pronounced Springtime in Paris
PINEMUM - a late-fall-flowering conifer
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