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PETRICHOR
PRONUNCIATION:
(PET-ri-kuhr)
MEANING:
noun: The pleasant smell that accompanies the first rain after a dry spell.
ETYMOLOGY:
Coined by researchers I.J. Bear and R.G. Thomas in 1964, from Greek petros (stone) + ichor (the fluid that supposedly flows in the veins of the gods in Greek mythology). Earliest documented use: 1964.
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TETRICHOR - a vocal work for four mixed voices
PENTRICHOR - ...make that five mixed voices
PATRICHOR - a barber-shop group made up exclusively of Irish tenors
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OMPHALOSKEPSIS
PRONUNCIATION: (om-fuh-lo-SKEP-sis)
MEANING: noun:
1. Contemplation of one’s navel.
2. Complacent self-indulgent introspection.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek omphalos (navel) + skepsis (act of looking, examination). Ultimately from the Indo-European root spek- (to observe), which also gave us suspect, spectrum, bishop (literally, overseer), despise, espionage, telescope, spectator, and spectacles. Earliest documented use: 1925.
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OOMPHALOSKEPSIS - I'm not sure I have enough energy to get up today
EMPHALOSKEPSIS - uncertainty about the correctness of making one thing more prominent than another
OOP-HALO-SKEPSIS - i refuse to believe this Cro-Magnon with an aura is really a saint.
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UPCYCLING
PRONUNCIATION: (UHP-sy-kling)
MEANING: noun: The conversion of a discarded object into something of even higher value.
ETYMOLOGY: A blend of up + recycling. Earliest documented use: 1994.
NOTES: Some examples of upcycling are turning old tires/tyres into a bench, old shoes into flower pots, and so on. The ultimate in upcycling is turning an old airplane into a house or a hotel.
Reduce, reuse, recycle is the mantra for the modern times where people are called “consumers”. Recycling is good. Upcycling is better. Bicycling is best. What about upcycling a bicycle?
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UNCYCLING - throwing away your old Schwinn
UPCYCLINE - brand name for that new antibiotic whose generic name is "pentacycline"
UMPCYCLING - the baseball officials rotate around the bases, changing each inning
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SELFIE
PRONUNCIATION:
(SEL-fee)
MEANING:
noun: A self-portrait, typically taken with a phone camera.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Old English self. Earliest documented use: 2002.
NOTES:
A photograph taken by a cell phone is called a selfie, not cellfie (or cellphie), though that would make sense too. The selfie craze has spread widely. Our fellow creatures on this planet have gotten into the game as well, though it’s not known whether they post those pictures on their Instagram (and make a living as an influencer).
Robots too have caught the selfie bug (see the usage example above)! Not sure about other robots, but let’s not be too hard on InSight, the Mars lander. If I traveled 300 million miles to reach some place, I too might take a selfie or two.
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SELF-IRE - anger turned inward, one definition of depression
SELFIRE - arsonist for hire
SHELFIE - a small knick-knack
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MANSPLAINPRONUNCIATION: (MAN-splayn) MEANING: verb tr.: To explain something, especially to a woman, in a condescending manner assuming ignorance on the part of the person spoken to, while the reverse is often true. ETYMOLOGY: A blend of man + explain, from Latin explanare (to make level), from ex- (intensive prefix) + planus (level, flat, plain). Earliest documented use: 2008. NOTES: Mansplaining brings to mind what Bertrand Russell once said: “The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” The canonical example of mansplaining is when, at a party, a man learns that a woman has written a book on the photographer Eadweard Muybridge. He cuts her short and starts explaining to her about an important book that came out on the photographer that year, not knowing that he was talking to the author of that very book. _________________________ MARSPLAIN - Elysium PlanitiaOMAN'S PLAIN - the steppes of southwest Asia MAINSPLAIN - where the rain in Spain stays, mostly
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GAMIFICATION
PRONUNCIATION: (gay-mi-fi-KAY-shuhn)
MEANING: noun: The application of game-related elements to an activity to make it more engaging.
ETYMOLOGY: From game, from Old English gaman (entertainment) + -fication (making), from facere (to do or make). Earliest documented use: 2008.
NOTES: Typical elements of gamification include progressively increasing challenges, awarding of points or rewards, adding surprises, etc. Should we offer badges and points to readers who send out gift subscriptions of A.Word.A.Day? Badges or not, please do send it to friends and family. That's the only way the word spreads. Help us in our mission of spreading the joy of words.
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RAMIFICATION - Dodge Motor Company is switching entirely to light trucks
GRAMIFICATION - metric measurements are coming!
GATIFICATION - Second Amendment carried to the extreme
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BINGEABLE
PRONUNCIATION: (BIN-juh-buhl)
MEANING: adjective: Able to be consumed in rapid succession; typically said of entertainment, such as movies, television, streaming video, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From English dialect binge (to soak). Earliest documented use: 2013. The term binge-watching has been around since 1996.
NOTES: GoT bingeable? An example of something bingeable could be a television show with multiple episodes that can be watched one after another, especially on a streaming video service. Better to snack than binge, if you ask me.
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SINGEABLE - you'll burn that if you're not careful
INGEABLE - easily re-written as a play about a solitary protagonist with strained sexual relations
BINGOABLE - a seven-tile rack that can be placed on a Scrabble® board in its entirety, getting a bonus of fifty extra points
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REVEILLE
PRONUNCIATION: (REV-uh-lee, ri-VAL-ee)
MEANING: noun:
1. A signal to wake up in the morning, using a bugle, trumpet, etc., at military installations.
2. Any signal to get out of bed.
3. The hour at which a wake-up signal is sounded.
ETYMOLOGY: From French réveillez (wake up!), from réveiller (to awaken), from re- (again) + eveiller (to rouse), from Latin exvigilare (to keep watch), from ex- (out) + vigilare (to be awake or keep watch), from vigil (awake). Ultimately from the Indo-European root weg- (to be strong or lively), which also gave us vegetable, vigor, velocity, watch, vigilante, vedette, vegete, and velitation. Earliest documented use: 1633.
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REVE ISLE - the island of your dreams, right here in the Seine
PREVEILLE - the day before the evening before a holiday
RE-VIEILLE - second dotage
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FACIES
PRONUNCIATION: (FAY-shee-eez, -sheez)
MEANING: noun:
1. General appearance.
2. In medicine, a distinctive appearance associated with a pathological condition.
3. In geology, a body of rock with specific characteristics.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin facies (face). Earliest documented use: 1398.
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FARIES - leprechauns and sprites and the like, who come from distant places
FAQIES - cute little questions that everybody asks
FARCIES - comic stage works using buffoonery and horseplay, typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations, written in Persian
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MYTHOPEIC
PRONUNCIATION: (mith-uh-PEE-ik), also mythopoetic (-po-ET-ik)
MEANING: adjective: Relating to the making of myths.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek mythos (myth) + poiein (to make). Earliest documented use: 1846.
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MYTHOGEIC - telling epic stories about Mother Earth
MATHOPEIC - possessing original quantitative skills
MYTHOPIC , also MYTHOPTIC - fabricating results for your eye test
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OBEISANCE
PRONUNCIATION: (o-BAY/BEE-sans)
MEANING: noun:
1. A gesture of submission, such as a curtsy.
2. Deference or homage.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French obeissance, from obeir (to obey), from Latin oboedire (to obey, to listen to), from ob- (toward) + audire (to hear). Ultimately from the Indo-European root au- (to perceive), which also gave us audio, audit, obey, auditorium, anesthesia, aesthetic, synesthesia, and clairaudience. Earliest documented use: 1382.
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OBEISEANCE - the spirits you summon will do your bidding !
KOBE IS A NCE - your basketball star is a non-commissioned enlistee
OBEISANE - no, old Ben Kenobi isn't crazy at all
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CONSCIENTIOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (kon-shee-EN-shus)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Meticulous or painstaking.
2. Following one’s conscience; scrupulous.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin con- (intensive prefix) + from scire (to know). Ultimately from the Indo-European root skei- (to cut or split), which also gave us schism, ski, shin, science, conscience, nice, scienter, nescient, exscind, and sciolism, adscititious. Earliest documented use: 1603.
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CORNSCIENTIOUS - searching for a way to modify maize crops so that they are pest-resistant without harming Monarch butterflies
CONSCIENTIOPUS - the Bloom County penguin who reminds us to do the right thing, because somebody might be watching
CONESCIENTIOUS- studying the perception of color (or hand-held ice cream treats)
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GRANDISONIZE
PRONUNCIATION: (gran-DIS-uh-nyz)
MEANING verb tr.: To escort in a courteous manner.
ETYMOLOGY: After Sir Charles Grandison, the model gentleman hero of Samuel Richardson’s 1753 novel The History of Sir Charles Grandison. Earliest documented use: 1824.
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GRAND IS ON ICE - a thousand dollars is safely put away
GRANDISONIAZE - make the anti-Tb drug super-potent
GRANDIOSONIZE - afflict with inflated ideas of self-importance
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LYNCH
PRONUNCIATION: (linch)
MEANING: verb tr.: To punish (typically, killing by hanging) for an alleged crime, without a legal trial.
ETYMOLOGY: After Captain William Lynch (1742-1820) of Pittsylvania, Virginia, who was the head of a vigilante group. Some have attributed the term to Charles Lynch (1736-1796), a Virginia magistrate. Earliest documented use: 1836.
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SLYNCH - to wince while moving around furtively
LYONCH - le déjeuner in eastern France (that's not Nice!)
LYN-OCH ! - enraptured Scotsman waxes lyrical
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GALVANIZE
PRONUNCIATION: (GAL-vuh-nyze)
MEANING: verb tr.:
1. To motivate or to arouse to action.
2. To coat with a rust-resistant material, such as zinc.
3. To stimulate by applying an electric current.
ETYMOLOGY: After physician and physicist Luigi Galvani (1737-1798), who studied electrical stimulation in animal tissue. Earliest documented use: 1802.
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ALVANIZE - speed up a voice recording so it sounds like a chipmunk
GALIANIZE - switch to an inexpensive wine
GALLANIZE - convert liquid volume measurements from metric to English units
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MESMERIZE
PRONUNCIATION: (MEZ/MES-muh-ryz)
MEANING: verb tr.:
1. To spellbind.
2. To hypnotize.
ETYMOLOGY: After physician Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815) who discovered a way of inducing hypnosis through what he called animal magnetism. Earliest documented use: 1829.
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MESMERITE - one whose religion is based on Animal Magnetism
MEMMERIZE - when you know something by heart but still can't spell it
MESOMERIZE - in stereochemistry, to make a racemic mixture of d- and l-isomers in equal measure
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CRUSOE
PRONUNCIATION: (KROO-soh)
MEANING: noun: A castaway; a person who is isolated or without companionship.
verb intr.: To be marooned; to survive or manage through one’s ingenuity without outside help.
ETYMOLOGY: After the title character of Daniel Defoe’s 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe. Crusoe was a shipwrecked sailor who spent 28 years on a remote desert island. Earliest documented use: 1888. Crusoe’s aide has also become an eponym in the English language: man Friday.
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CRUSODE - 1. past tense for a great Holy War
2. monies due to finance 1. above
3. epic poetry in praise of 1. above
GRUSOE - what little Johnny did since you saw him last
CRUSOX - what you wear on your feet while rowing in a regatta
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EROSE
PRONUNCIATION: (i-ROS)
MEANING: adjective: Irregularly notched or jagged.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin erosus, past participle of erodere (to gnaw off), from ex- (off) + rodere (to gnaw). Earliest documented use: 1793.
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HEROSE - doers of great and valiant deeds
FEROSE - the Iron Flower
REROSE - increased the size of the bet yet again
...and, of course, since Easter is coming,
EROSE - wot 'e did on the third day
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SCOW
PRONUNCIATION: (skou)
MEANING: noun: A flat-bottomed boat with square ends.
ETYMOLOGY: From Dutch schouw (ferryboat). Earliest documented use: 1524.
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SCOWN - lightly sweetened biscuits, often taken with tea
SCROW - fornication in the pluperfect subjunctive
SACOW - New England anarchist, executed for murder in the 1920s along with his associate Vanzetti
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VAWARD
PRONUNCIATION: (VAH-ward, VOU-ord)
MEANING: noun: The forefront; vanguard.
ETYMOLOGY: From vaumward/vamward, from vantward, from Old French avantward, from avant (before) + garde (guard). Earliest documented use: 1400.
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VACARD - identification to prove you're entitled to Veterans' benefits
UVAWARD - toward the grapes
VALARD - rendered fat from Virginia ham
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THEW
PRONUNCIATION: (thyoo)
MEANING: noun:
1. Muscle or tendon.
2. Power; strength; vitality.
ETYMOLOGY: From thew (muscle, strength), from Old English theaw (custom, usage). Earliest documented use: 888.
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ATHEW - what you say "Gesundheit!" after
IT HEW - what an ax do when you swing it
THE WY - where you might go to swim, or work out, or socialize, or other things, depending
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pelf
PRONUNCIATION: (pelf)
MEANING: noun: Money or wealth, especially when acquired in a dishonorable manner.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French pelfre (booty), which also gave us the word pilfer. Earliest documented use: 1425.
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peaf - a French chanteuse, also called "the Little Sparrow" (la Môme)
p.e. elf - a gym rat of a pixie
pelft - pyslexic Dutch earthenware
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BRED IN THE BONE
PRONUNCIATION: (bred-in-thuh-BOHN)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Deep-rooted.
2. Habitual; inveterate.
ETYMOLOGY: From the old proverb “What is bred in the bone will not come out of the flesh”, implying something deep-rooted cannot be removed. Also recorded in the form “What is bred in the bone will come out in the flesh”, meaning deeply ingrained traits will ultimately reveal themselves. Earliest documented use: 1470.
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BREAD IN THE BONE - turkey stuffing for connoisseurs
BRED IN THE BONG - parents were high as kites when you were conceived
BREDING HE-BONE - having mucho macho offspring (but can't spell very well)
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OSSIFY
PRONUNCIATION: (OS-uh-fy)
MEANING: verb tr., intr.:
1. To convert or change into bone.
2. To make or become rigid in thinking, attitudes, habits, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin os (bone). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ost- (bone), which also gave us ossuary and ostracize. Earliest documented use: 1670.
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MOSSIFY - when a stone stops rolling
OSHIFY - becoming a government bureaucracy concerned with job safety
OSSIFRY - a passel of overcooked little fish
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BONEHEAD
(BOHN-hed)
MEANING:
noun: A stupid person.
adjective: Stupid; thoughtless.
ETYMOLOGY:
A bonehead is someone thick-skulled, a blockhead. The word is a combination of bone, from Old English ban (bone) + head, from Old English heafod (top of the body). Earliest documented use: 1903.
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ONEHEAD - another name for the United Nations International Children's Emergency PHund (UNICEPH)
BONE-HEXAD - the six-sided lattice structure of Calcium Hydroxyapatite (the principal mineral component of bone)
BONEHEARD - the sound of one femur snapping
BOONEHEAD - where to find a coonskin cap
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JELL-O
PRONUNCIATION: (JEL-o)
MEANING: noun:
1. A dessert made from gelatin, sugar, and fruit flavoring.
2. Something soft and wiggly.
ETYMOLOGY: Jell-O is a trademark for a gelatin-based dessert. The word gelatin (a substance formed by boiling bones, skin, ligaments, etc.) is from Latin gelare (to freeze). Ultimately from the Indo-European root gel- (cold; to freeze), which also gave us jelly, chill, glacier, cold, and congeal. Earliest documented use: 1935.
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OJELLO - Yogi Bear's favorite Shakespeare drama
JELLBO - what you call a pitcher's lax arm joint after too many surgical procedures
JELL-NO - Absolutely not, transliterated into Spanish
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BAREBONED
PRONUNCIATION: (BAYR-bohnd)
MEANING: adjective: Lean; spare; gaunt.
ETYMOLOGY: From bare-bone (a lean person), from Old English baer (bare) + ban (bone). Earliest documented use: 1600.
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BAR-EBONY - black keys on a honky-tonk piano
BAREBOND - a financial instrument stripped of interest
BLAREBONED - the brass section of "Rex Tremendae" in the Verdi Requiem
BARRE-BONED - a body well trained for classical ballet
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BIBLIOTAPH
PRONUNCIATION: (BIB-lee-uh-taf)
MEANING: noun: One who hoards books.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek biblio- (book) + taphos (tomb), which also gave us cenotaph Earliest documented use: 1823.
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BIBLIOTACH - speed-reading
BILIOTAPH - where they bury inflamed gall bladders after surgery
BIBLIOTAPE - a spoken edition of the King James Version
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BOUQUINIST
PRONUNCIATION: (BOO-ki-neest)
MEANING: noun: A dealer in old and used books.
ETYMOLOGY: From French bouquiniste, from bouquin (a colloquial word for a book, little book, or old book). Earliest documented use: 1840.
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BOUQUINSIST - down with e-readers !
BOUQUIRIST - the capital of Roumania
BOUQUILIST - card catalog of the library of the city of Straßbourg
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FLORILEGIUM
PRONUNCIATION: (flor-uh-LEE-jee-uhm, FLOR-)
MEANING: noun: A compilation of excerpts; anthology.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin florilegium, from flor (flower) + legere (to gather). Ultimately from the Indo-European root leg- (to collect), which also gave us lexicon, lesson, lecture, legible, legal, select, cull, subintelligitur (something that is not stated but understood), prolegomenon (an introduction to a text), lignify (to turn into wood), and lection (a version of a text in a particular edition). Earliest documented use: 1621.
NOTES: If you think of compiling an anthology as arranging flowers in a bouquet, you wouldn’t be far off: the word comes to us from Greek anthos (flower). Florilegium is the Latin equivalent, from flor (flower). Both words have also been applied to a collection of flowers or a collection of writing about flowers. Now, you might think a bouquiniste (a dealer in old and used books) has a similar connection too, but no, this word comes to us from French bouquin (slang for book).
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FLORILEGGUM - to throw lily-painted Easter eggs at the house (that'll teach 'em not to be so cheap next Halloween!)
GLORILEGIUM - the girl has one remarkable gam
FLORILERIUM - to visit the Botanical Gardens while having hallucinations
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BIBLIOLATER
PRONUNCIATION: (bib-lee-OL-ay-tuhr)
MEANING: noun:
1. One with extreme devotion to books.
2. One having excessive devotion to the Bible, especially to its literal interpretation.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek biblio- (book) + -latry (worship). Earliest documented use: 1847.
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BIBLIOLAFTER - makes fun of the Holy Writ
BIBLIO-EATER - devours books voraciously
BIB-LION-LATER - so Leo can eat his lobster neatly tonight
BIBLI ORATER - 1. declaiming the Book from a soapbox in Trafalgar Square
BIBLIO RATER - 2. "The Revised Standard Version is more tolerant the King James, but less poetic; the Revised English Bible attempts to be more in tune with modern eqalitarian sensibilities..."
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PANDECT
PRONUNCIATION: (PAN-dekt)
MEANING: noun:
1. A complete body of the laws of a country, organization, etc.
2. A comprehensive treatise on a subject.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin pandectes (encyclopedia), from Greek pandektes (all-receiving), from pan- (all) + dektes (receiver), from dekhesthai (to receive). Ultimately from Indo-European root dek- (to take, accept), which also gave us dignity, discipline, doctor, decorate, docile, deign, condign, dogmatic, doxy, heterodox, philodox. Earliest documented use: 1531.
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PANDICT - someone who speaks all languages (compare POLYGLOT)
PANDA ECT - shock treatment for depressed pandas
PANDE.CL - the chloride salt of Pande
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ADONIS
PRONUNCIATION: (uh-DAHN-is, uh-DOH-nis)
MEANING: noun: An exceptionally handsome young man.
ETYMOLOGY: After Adonis, a strikingly handsome youth in Greek mythology, loved by Aphrodite and Persephone. Earliest documented use: 1571.
NOTES: Adonis has a verb coined after him as well, adonize (to make more attractive), though he has nothing to do with anodizing.
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ADMONIS - chide or scold someone while drunk
'AD-ONS - wut 'e wuz wearin', colloquially
ADONISM - hypertrophy of the two masses of lymphoid tissue laterally in the back of the mouth
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CROESUS
PRONUNCIATION: (KREE-suhs)
MEANING: noun: A very wealthy person.
ETYMOLOGY: After Croesus (595-546 BCE), last king of Lydia, known for his great wealth. Earliest documented use: 1390.
NOTES: The story goes that Croesus showed his enormous wealth to the visiting wise man Solon and asked him who the happiest man was, fully expecting himself to be named. Solon’s reply, “Consider no one happy until he is dead”, disappointed him. Croesus realized the wisdom of Solon’s words when Cyrus the Great of Persia defeated and captured him.
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CROES-R-US - where we used to get mannikins stuffed with straw to place in the cornfield to scare away the birds
CRIESUS - roots for the United States in the Olympics
CROJESUS - a religious figure revered by cro-magnon man
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FORTEAN
PRONUNCIATION: (FOHR-tee-uhn)
MEANING: adjective: Relating to paranormal phenomena.
ETYMOLOGY: After Charles Hoy Fort (1874-1932), a writer and researcher of paranormal phenomena. Earliest documented use: 1920.
NOTES: Charles Hoy Fort once wrote, “I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written.” That’s all you need to know about the paranormal phenomena.
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FORTEEN - target audience of Young Adult fiction
FORTEA - what we'll invite the whole team out for to celebrate the victory, according to Tom Lehrer
FORT WAN - a Jedi military stronghold, named in honor of Obi Kenobi
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APOLLO
PRONUNCIATION: (uh-PAHL-oh)
MEANING: noun: A strikingly handsome young man.
ETYMOLOGY: After Apollo, the god of music, poetry, prophecy, healing, and more in Greek and Roman mythologies. He was considered the most beautiful god. See also: Apollonian.
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AP OSLO - the Norwegian Associated Press office
AP OLLA - an earthenware jar in the Cancun Associated Press office, viewed from front to back
AP OLIO - a potpourri of Associated Press columns
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ZOILUS
PRONUNCIATION: (ZOI-luhs)
MEANING: noun: A harsh critic.
ETYMOLOGY: From Zoilus (c. 400-320 BCE), a Greek critic known for his severe criticism of Homer. Earliest documented use: 1565.
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ZOILEUS - an animal with a distended, non-contracting intestinal tract
BOILUS - the motto of masochistic lobsters
ZOÖLUS - a miniature collection of animals for public display
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HAUSSMANNIZE
PRONUNCIATION: (HAUS-muh-nyz)
MEANING: verb tr.: To redevelop or rebuild an area, especially on a massive scale.
ETYMOLOGY: Coined after Georges-Eugène Haussman (1809-1891) who was appointed by Napoleon III to carry out the renovation of Paris. Earliest documented use: 1865.
NOTES: Haussmann carried out a massive overhaul of Paris that involved demolishing whole neighborhoods. The new Paris had, among other things, widened, tree-lined boulevards, new parks, fountains, sewers, aqueducts, and more. His renovation of Paris inspired other cities around the world to carry out similar overhauls. Haussmann was forced out as opposition to him swelled, due to huge disruption of life (some 20,000 buildings were destroyed) and cost overruns.
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HAUSSMANNITE - 1. inhabiant of the town of Haussmann . 2. a rare ore found in certain meteorites
RAUSSMANNIZE - to be summarily tossed out of bed by a German drill sergeant
MAUSSMANNIZE - to be beaten up by a Mighty Mouse's European cousin
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MACGYVER
PRONUNCIATION: (muh-GY-vuhr)
MEANING: verb tr.: To improvise an ingenious solution using whatever is available at hand.
ETYMOLOGY: After Angus MacGyver, a secret agent in the television series MacGyver, who was known for improvising ingenious solutions to the problems he faced. He carried a Swiss Army knife and duct tape. Earliest documented use: 1992. Some related terms, though not synonyms, are kludge and jury-rig.
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MACGYRER - a slithy Irish tove, macgimbling in the wabe
MACGIVER - donor of mass-produced hamburgers
MACGOVER - a complete redoing of the appearance
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PASTEURIZE
PRONUNCIATION: (PAS-chuh-ryz)
MEANING: verb tr.: To heat or irradiate something just long enough to kill pathogenic microorganisms.
ETYMOLOGY: After Louis Pasteur (1822-1895), chemist and microbiologist, known for his discoveries in this area. Earliest documented use: 1881.
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PASTURIZE - to make a meadow
PASTEPRIZE - award for the best adhesive
PASTE-UP-IZE - make into a collage
CASTEURIZE - take a look at
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