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DEMIT
PRONUNCIATION: (di-MIT)
MEANING: verb tr.: To give up an office or a position; to dismiss.
verb intr.: To resign.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French demettre, from Latin demittere (to dismiss, relinquish, send away), from dis- (away) + mittere (to send). Earliest documented use: 1529.
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DREMIT - the rapper pays his bill
DAMIT - 1. to tell beavers to obstruct a stream; 2. to swear at them afterwards
DEIT - what a dyslexic does to lose weight
DEFIT - to make one's clothes saggy-baggy (see DEIT above)
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WEN
PRONUNCIATION: (wen)
MEANING: noun:
1. A benign tumor of the skin.
2. A large overcrowded city.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English wen (tumor, wart). Ultimately from the Indo-European root wen- (to beat or wound), which also gave us the word wound. Earliest documented use: 1000.
NOTES: In 1822, William Cobbett, farmer, pamphleteer, journalist, MP, and a champion of rural England, nicknamed the rapidly growing London, The Great Wen.
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iWEN - a benign tumor of the thumb, caused by excessive texting
SEN - half of a tiny licorice-flavored mouth-freshening lozenge, no longer made
WENU - 1. what you see if you look at the list of restaurant offerings upside down; 2. (French) past participle of WENIR
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SKAIL
PRONUNCIATION: (skayl)
MEANING: verb intr.: To scatter out, spill, or disperse.
verb tr.: To dismiss or to disband an assembly, group, etc.
noun: A scattering or dispersal.
ETYMOLOGY: Of Scottish or Scandinavian origin. Earliest documented use: 1300.
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SKAIRL - sound made by an Irish bagpipe
U. S. KAIL - American-grown leafy-green vegetable
ASKAIL - one more question and you're gonna get it...
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SLUE
PRONUNCIATION: (sloo)
MEANING: verb tr., intr.: To turn, swing, or slide in a particular direction.
noun: Such a turn, swing, or slide.
ETYMOLOGY: Of unknown origin. Earliest documented use: 1860.
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'S LUES - "it's syphilis," elided
ST. LUE - city in eastern Missouri, for short
SULUE - it was a woman at the helm of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701
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DREE
PRONUNCIATION: (dree)
MEANING: verb tr.: To endure or suffer.
adjective: Tedious or dreary.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English dreogan. Earliest documented use: before 1000.
NOTES: The word is sometimes seen in the phrase “to dree one’s weird”, meaning to endure one’s fate.
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DREE - poet cummings got an honorary degree from his alma mater
DOEE - he who has been done unto
DREM - 1. Dorothy's aunt graduated from medical school;
2. Rapid-Eye-Movements during deep sleep, that rotate to the right
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WALE
PRONUNCIATION: (wayl)
MEANING: noun: 1. A streak mark raised on the skin, as by a whip.
2. One of the series of ribs in a fabric such as corduroy.
3. A plank along the side of a wooden ship.
4. A horizontal band or strip, for example, around a woven basket.
verb tr.: 1. To mark with wales.
2. To fasten or secure.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English walu (mark of a lash). Earliest documented use: 1024.
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WABE - what to gyre and gimble in
WADLE - what infants in diapers do in warm calm shallow waters (portmanteau of waddle and wade)
WALET - to carry your dolars in
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KINESICS
PRONUNCIATION: (kuh/ky-NEE-siks/ziks)
MEANING: noun: The study of body movements, such as gestures or facial expressions, as a form of communication.
ETYMOLOGY: Coined by the anthropologist Ray Birdwhistell (1918-1994). From Greek kinesis (motion), from kinein (to move). Earliest documented use: 1952.
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KINESICK - I have arthritis of the tibia, and my ACL ain't too good either
KINESIBS - the calves are twins
DINESICS - supper is served just after 5:55
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AGNOSTIC
PRONUNCIATION: (ag-NOS-tik)
MEANING: noun: 1. One who believes that the existence of god is unknown or unknowable.
2. One who is noncommittal about something.
adjective: 1. Believing that the existence of god is unknown or unknowable.
2. Noncommittal.
3. Compatible with many platforms: not limited to a particular software, technology, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: Coined by the biologist Thomas Henry Huxley in 1869. From Greek a- (not) + gnosis (knowledge). Ultimately from the Indo-European root gno- (to know), which also gave us knowledge, prognosis, ignore, narrate, normal, know, can, notorious, notice, connoisseur, recognize, diagnosis, ignore, annotate, noble, narrate, anagnorisis (the moment of recognition), prosopagnosia (inability to recognize faces), and gnomon (raised arm of a sundial). Earliest documented use: 1869.
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AGRO-STIC - a primitive plow
Ag-NOSIC - I know there's silver in this mine; I can just smell it!
WAGNOSTIC - eschew the philosophy of Theodore Roosevelt; correlate of "Speak loudly!"
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GOOGOL
PRONUNCIATION: (GOO-gol, -guhl)
MEANING: noun: A number equivalent to 1 followed by 100 zeros (10^100).
ETYMOLOGY: Coined by Milton Sirotta, nine-year-old nephew of the mathematician Edward Kasner. Earliest documented use: 1940.
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GOÖDOL - a very large number, but incomplete
MOOGOL - head of a large dairy conglomerate
GOOGNOL - a grand British Punch-and-Judy show
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*a googolplex is 10^googol, i.e. 1 followed by a googol zeroes
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INSCAPE
PRONUNCIATION: (IN-skayp)
MEANING: noun: The unique essence of a person, place, or thing, especially as expressed in a work of art such as a poem.
ETYMOLOGY: Coined by the poet and priest Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) who, in turn, was inspired by the philosopher Duns Scotus (c. 1266-1308). Earliest documented use: 1868.
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INSHAPE - the form of your concavity
INSCOPE - elected politicians deal with adversity
GINSCAPE - how the world looks after you've had too many martinis
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