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Too much stress results in distress. Or should that be 'dystress'?  Agreed...
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NULLIBIETY
PRONUNCIATION: (nuh-luh-BY-uh-tee)
MEANING: noun: The state of being or existing nowhere.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin nullibi (nowhere), from nullus (null) + ibi (here, there). Earliest documented use: 1668. The opposite is ubiety.
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GULLIBIETY - the purchase of seagoing birds
NULLIBRIETY - teetotalling
(compare NUNLIBIETY: Sister's overdoing the sacramental wine...)
NULLIBILETY - just can't do anything well
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Lullibiety- the condition or quality of being calm
Nullidiety- diet free
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Lullibiety- the condition or quality of being calm Good one!
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EXCARNATION
PRONUNCIATION: (eks-kahr-NAY-shuhn)
MEANING: noun:
1. The removing of flesh, especially from a corpse before burial.
2. The supposed separation of the soul from the body at death.
ETYMOLOGY: From excarnate, from Latin excarnare (to remove flesh), from caro (flesh). Earliest documented use: 1847.
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EXTARNATION - swearing has been officially banned
EXCORNATION - I feel so much better now after visiting my podiatrist
EXCARIATION - when the dentist takes care of my cavities (Query: what's left when you remove a hole?)
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Exzarnation- officially wrecked
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DYSPHEMISM
PRONUNCIATION: (DIS-fuh-miz-em)
MEANING: noun: The substitution of a harsher, deprecating, or offensive term in place of a relatively neutral term.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek dys- (bad) + -phemism (as in euphemism). Earliest documented use: 1884. The opposite is euphemism.
NOTES: Examples include “death tax” for “estate tax” and “snail mail” for “paper mail”.
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DY-SPHERISM - belief in two suns
DAYS-PHEMISM - Women's Lib while the sun shines
DYS-HEMISM - show disrespect for the claim that stocks follow the length of women's skirts, with a six-month lag
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ZYSPHEMISM- to speak with a teutonic accent (comparable to any found in a Mel Brooks movie)
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NOCEBO
PRONUNCIATION: (no-SEE-bo)
MEANING: noun: A substance producing harmful effects in someone because it is believed to be harmful, but which in reality is harmless.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin nocebo (I will harm), from nocere (to harm). Modeled after its antonym placebo (I will please). Earliest documented use: 1961.
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NICE, BO - well done, Ms Derek
NO CEO - the head of the company just got canned
NO SEBO - a first-class gringo trying to say "I don't understand" in Spanish
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DOTARD
PRONUNCIATION: (DOH-tuhrd)
MEANING: noun: One whose mental faculties have deteriorated, especially due to old age.
ETYMOLOGY: From Middle English doten (to be foolish). Earliest documented use: 1393.
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DON'TARD - inevitably says "No!"
DEOTARD - worn at a Passion Ballet
DOPARD - a biochemist-hedonist
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SODDEN-WITTED
PRONUNCIATION: (SOD-en-wit-id)
MEANING: adjective: Dull.
ETYMOLOGY: From Middle English soden (boiled), past participle of sethen (to boil) + wit (mental capacity). Earliest documented use: 1609, in Troilus and Cressida.
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SUDDEN-WITTED - abruptly became smart
SHODDEN-WITTED - comfortably funny, like an old shoe
SODDEN-WILTED - all wet and floppy
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SCULLION
PRONUNCIATION: (SKUL-yen)
MEANING: noun:
1. A servant who does menial work in a kitchen, such as washing dishes.
2. A lowly or contemptible person.
ETYMOLOGY: Of uncertain origin, probably from Old French escouvillon (dishcloth, mop), diminutive of escouve (broom), from Latin scopa (broom) or from scullery (a small kitchen), from Old French escuele (dish), from Latin scutella, diminutive of scutra (pan). Earliest documented use: 1483.
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CULLION - one who has been removed from a group in order to leave more room and resources for others more fit
SCULLIN' - rowin' down the river
SCULL ICON - part of a pirates' flag
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KNOTTY-PATED
PRONUNCIATION: (NOT-ee-pay-tid)
MEANING: adjective: Blockheaded or thickheaded.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English cnotta (knot) + pate (head). Earliest documented use: 1598.
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KNOTTY-RATED - measured speed in the water
KNOTTY-PATHED - without a simple, direct route from one end to the other
SNOTTY-PATED - wipes his nose on his hair
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GORBELLIED
PRONUNCIATION: (GOR-bel-eed)
MEANING: adjective: Having a large belly: fat.
ETYMOLOGY: From gorbelly (large belly), from gor (gore) + belly, from Old English belig (bag). Earliest documented use: 1529.
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GO REBEL LIED - enthusiastic dissident was not truthful
GOBEL-LIED - Lonesome George (50s TV comedian) sang in Berlin
IGOR-BELLIED - the Mad Scientist's assistant who enjoyed his beer too much
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HEBETIC
PRONUNCIATION: (hi-BET-ik)
MEANING: adjective: Relating to or happening at puberty.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek hebe (youth). Earliest documented use: 19th c. Also see hebephrenia.
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SHEBETIC - the high blood sugar sometimes seen in pregnancy
HEMETIC - makes you vomit blood
HE-BEST-IC - fixated on being first, even among equals
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EVENTIDE
PRONUNCIATION: (EE-vuhn-tyd)
MEANING: noun: The evening time.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English aefentid, from aefen (evening) + tid (time). Earliest documented use: before 1000.
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SEVENTIDE - the boat will sail at 7:05
EVERTIDE - brand of shoelaces that will never come undone
OVENTIDE - detergent that cleans even at high temperatures
EVENTIRE - so your vehicle will give you an EVENRIDE
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CACOPHONY
PRONUNCIATION: (kuh-KOF-uh-nee)
MEANING: noun: A harsh mixture of sounds.
ETYMOLOGY: From French cacophonie, from Greek kakophonia (harsh sounding), from kakos (bad) + phone (sound). Kakos is ultimately from the Indo-European root kakka-/kaka- (to defecate), which also gave us poppycock, cucking stool, cacology, and cacography. Earliest documented use: 1656.
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CACO-PONY - what has to be here somewhere 'cuz there's so much manure, according to the happy little boy mucking the stable
COCOPHONY - a bottle of cheap scent labelled "Chanel # 5000"
CACOPHONE - a musical instrument known for its raucous, unpleasant sound
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INDEFEASIBLE
PRONUNCIATION: (in-di-FEE-zuh-buhl)
MEANING: adjective: Not subject to being revised, defeated, or annulled.
ETYMOLOGY: From in- (not) + defeasible, from Old French desfaire (to undo or destroy), from Latin dis- (apart, away) + facere (to do). Ultimately from the Indo-European root dhe- (to set or put), which is also the source of do, deed, factory, fashion, face, rectify, defeat, sacrifice, satisfy, Sanskrit sandhi (joining), Urdu purdah (veil or curtain), and Russian duma (council). Earliest documented use: 1548.
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INDEFENSIBLE - can't be defended or supported
INDYFEASIBLE - Ya know, we just might do OK in this big auto race, come Memorial Day
SINDEFEASIBLE - this could be a good place to establish the India/West Pakistan border
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CONTUMACY
PRONUNCIATION: (KON-too/tyoo-muh-see)
MEANING: noun: Stubborn rebelliousness or insubordination.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin contumacia, from contumax (insolent). Earliest documented use: 1386.
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COSTUMACY - a Masquerade Ball
CON TO MACY - what Gimbels' scheme looked like to his competitor
CONTAMACY - spoiling with germs
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THINKO
PRONUNCIATION: (THING-koh)
MEANING: noun: A careless error in thinking.
ETYMOLOGY: From think, formed on the pattern of typo (typographical error). Earliest documented use: 1990s.
NOTES: When someone makes a typo and spells “teh” instead of “the”, it’s not that they don’t know the spelling of the word “the”. A thinko works the same way: it’s a glitch in one’s thinking, perhaps due to a distraction, tiredness, etc.
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THINKA - famous Rodin sculpture on loan to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts
THICKO - antisocial psychopath with a list
THINNO - opposite of a thicko
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BESAIEL
PRONUNCIATION: (bi-SAY-uhl)
MEANING: noun: A grandfather’s father: great-grandfather.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French besayel/besaiol, from Latin bis (twice) + avolus, diminutive of avus (grandfather). Earliest documented use: 1480.
NOTES: A grandfather is an aiel, a great-grandfather a besaiel, a great-great-grandfather a tresaiel. Now that you know the pattern, feel free to coin words beyond your grandfather’s grandfather. Also, now that you know what to call them, who’s your besaiel?
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BESOIEL - to bedeck with silk
BESAIL - a second attack, coming right after you ASSAIL
B.S. AIEL - You say "aiel" is "Grandfather"? That's bullsh*t.
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APOPHENIA
PRONUNCIATION: (a-puh-FEE-nee-uh)
MEANING: noun: The perception of connections or meaning in unrelated or random phenomena.
ETYMOLOGY: From German Apophänie, from Greek apo- (away, off, apart) + phainein (to show). Earliest documented use: around 1980. Apophenia is the general term -- pareidolia is an example of apophenia.
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APO-PHRENIA - the delusion of thinking one is a simian primate
APOPHONIA - the diagnosis for a ventriloquist whose "thrown" voice comes from a great distance
A "POP" HERNIA - what comes eventually from a weakness of the inguinal region
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ANACOLUTHON
PRONUNCIATION: (a-nuh-kuh-LOO-thahn/thuhn)
MEANING: noun: An abrupt change in the middle of a sentence making one part inconsistent with the other.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin anacoluthon, from Greek anakolouthos, from an- (not) + akolouthos (following), from a- (together) + keleuthos (path). Earliest documented use: 1706.
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AN ACOLYTHON - a long TV program to raise funds for priests' assistants
ANACOLUSHON - absence of a conspiracy
AN ACOLUTRON - a newly discovered kind of subatomic particle, with a strange but apparently charmed life
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DELPHINESTRIAN
PRONUNCIATION: (del-fi-NES-tree-uhn)
MEANING: noun: A dolphin rider.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin delphinus (dolphin), on the pattern of equestrian. Earliest documented use: 1820.
NOTES: If you ever get the urge to ride a dolphin, please leave them alone. Find yourself an inflatable one instead. In general, if you find yourself wanting to do things to any sentient being without their permission, find yourself an inflatable one. Also see, wooden horse.
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DOLPHINESTRIAN - someone raised in a dolphin home
DELPHIC-NESTRIAN - someone raised by an Oracle
DELPHIN-ESTRIAL - pertaining to hormones from a lowering plant of the family Ranunculaceae
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GUMMIDGE
PRONUNCIATION: (GUH-mij)
MEANING: noun: A peevish, pessimistic person.
ETYMOLOGY: After Mrs Gummidge, a grumpy old widow in Charles Dickens’s novel David Copperfield (1850). She likes to say, “I am a lone lorn creetur’ ... and everythink goes contrairy with me.” Earliest documented use: 1873.
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GLUMMIDGE - pessimist; one who is always down in the mouth (no, silly, not your dentist)
GUMMI-DOGE - a miniature jelly candy in the shape of a Venetian magistrate
GUNMIDGE - a tiny insect that fouls your rifle barrel and causes your shot to miss
GUMRIDGE - what your teeth plug into (see "alveolar ridge")
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TIGGER
PRONUNCIATION: (TIG-uhr)
MEANING: noun: Someone filled with energy, cheerfulness, and optimism.
ETYMOLOGY: After Tigger, a tiger in A.A. Milne’s The House at Pooh Corner (1928). Earliest documented use: 1981.
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TRIGGER - a black-and-orange-striped horse
TIGGET - what you get frob a cop with a cold whed he pulls you over for speedig
TIOGER - a small town in New York State, 115 miles southwest of UTIGGER and about ten miles from the Pennsylvania border
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DEBBIE DOWNER
PRONUNCIATION: (DEB-ee DOU-nuhr)
MEANING: noun: Someone who is persistently negative and pessimist.
ETYMOLOGY: After Debbie Downer, a character in the television series Saturday Night Live, who frequently brings bad news in even the most cheerful situations. You can also call her a killjoy. Earliest documented use: 2004.
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DEBBIE DOWNER - That would be Eddie. (At least the first one was)
DOBBIE DOWNER - Bellatrix Lestrange. With a silver dagger. In the Malfoys' dining room.
DEBBIE DROWNER - unknown. (Wait - it was Natalie Wood who drowned. Oh well - the perp is still unknown)
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TAPLEYISM
PRONUNCIATION: (TAP-lee-i-zuhm)
MEANING: noun: Extreme optimism, even under most hopeless circumstances.
ETYMOLOGY: After Mark Tapley, a character in Charles Dickens’s Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-44). Earliest documented use: 1857.
NOTES: The mission of Mark Tapley is to remain “jolly” under all circumstances. It is tested when he accompanies his boss Martin Chuzzlewit on a trip to America and comes down with malaria while living in a swamp. When asked how he’s doing, he responds: “Floored for the present, sir, but jolly!” Other examples of words coined after characters from the same book are pecksniffian and gamp.
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"TABLE Y"-ISM - belief that one is always placed at the end of the list
STAPLEY-ISM - belief that one is always left hanging by a thin wire
TALLEY-ISM - government by consensus ("Them's my views, and if you don't like 'em, I'll change them")
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EEYORE
PRONUNCIATION: (EE-ohr)
MEANING: noun: A gloomy, pessimistic person.
ETYMOLOGY: After Eeyore, a donkey in A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh (1926). Earliest documented use: 1932.
NOTES: Eeyore is named onomatopoeically, after the braying call of a donkey. He’s the most depressing character in the Pooh universe -- the antithesis of Tigger. He keeps losing his tail. His house keeps getting knocked down. How can you blame him for being gloomy and pessimistic? Still, he’s a hopelessly lovable character.
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EEE YORE - when we wore very wide shoes
EEK! ORE! - We struck it rich!
e. e. LORE - history of Mr cummings
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FRIDAY FACE
PRONUNCIATION: (FRY-day fays)
MEANING: noun: A glum expression or a person with such an expression.
ETYMOLOGY: From the time when Fridays were days of fasting. Earliest documented use: 1592.
NOTES: Today, most people look forward to Fridays (TGIF: Thank God It’s Friday), but it wasn’t always so. These days Friday means the weekend is near, but back when religion ran day-to-day life, in some religions a Friday was marked as a day of fasting or at least abstaining from meat. Hence, a Friday came to be associated with a gloomy face.
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FRIDAY FACT - In France, Friday is the traditional market day, and is thus called Vendredi: the French word for "to sell" is "vendre," as in English "vend" and "vendor."
FRIDAY LACE - one of seven, if you have a different pair of shoelaces for each day of the week
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SUNDAY PUNCH
PRONUNCIATION: (SUHN-day punch)
MEANING: noun: A powerful, devastating blow.
ETYMOLOGY: In boxing, a Sunday punch is another name for a knockout punch, one that leaves an opponent unable to continue fighting. It’s not clear what the significance of Sunday is in Sunday punch. It could be because most boxing matches took place on a weekend and/or a Sunday punch supposedly knocked an opponent out till the following week. Earliest documented use: 1915.
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SUNDAY LUNCH - what you have instead of Sunday Dinner so you don't get a paunch
SUNDAY PINCH - so you won't fall asleep during the sermon
SUNDAE PUNCH - a yummy dessert made of ice cream with whipped cream and a cherry on top, floating on a large bowl of seltzer water
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BLUE MONDAY
PRONUNCIATION: (bloo MUHN-day)
MEANING: noun: A depressing Monday.
ETYMOLOGY: It’s not confirmed what makes a Monday a blue Monday. It could be because Monday means returning to work after a weekend’s fun and relaxation. It could also be a result of a weekend spent drinking, resulting in a hangover and a depressed state of mind typically associated with the color blue. Earliest documented use: 1790.
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BLUE MOONDAY - the second full moon in a given calendar month (occurs rarely)
BLUME MONDAY - Day in honor of a prolific author of Young Adult fiction
CLUE MONDAY - our school is having a Game Day early next week!
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SUNDAY DRIVER
PRONUNCIATION: (SUHN-day dry-vuhr)
MEANING: noun: One who drives slowly, poorly, or overcautiously.
ETYMOLOGY: What’s Sunday got to do with driving slowly, poorly, or overcautiously? The allusion here is to someone who is out for a leisurely Sunday drive taking the scenic route. Or one who drives poorly because they drive infrequently. Or they drive overcautiously in the manner of someone who comes out to drive only on Sunday when there’s little traffic. Earliest documented use: 1877.
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SUNDAY DROVER - gentleman farmer who visits his livestock on weekends only
SUNDAY DRIER - never could get it through his head about "Monday Washday"!
SUNDRY DRIVER - licensed for all kinds of motor vehicle
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GIRL FRIDAY
PRONUNCIATION: (guhrl FRY-day)
MEANING: noun: A female assistant, especially in an office, who does a wide variety of duties.
ETYMOLOGY: Patterned after man Friday in Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe (1719). Earliest documented use: 1928.
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GIRL FORIDAY - female for only 24 hours
GIL FRIDAY - Dodger first-baseman Hodges was Mister Friday, the way Reggie Jackson was Mr October
G.I. ALFRID? AY! - Are you Infantry Private Alfrid?
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AGERASIA
PRONUNCIATION: (a-juh-RAY-zhuh)
MEANING: noun: Not growing old, or looking younger than one’s age.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin agerasia, from Greek agerasia, from geras (old age), which also gave us gerontology. Earliest documented use: 1706.
NOTES: Do people tell you you look ten years younger than you really are? There’s chronological age, determined by when you were born, totally out of your control. Then there’s biological age (calculate it), which is how well you have aged, and it is quite likely up to you.
If you have ever wanted a word to describe that youthful look you have maintained from regular exercise, healthful eating, and conscientious living, your wish is granted. As for actually not growing old, you ask too much.
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GERANIA - several plants with clusters of bright red/vermillion flowers
AVERASIA - to infer the existence of a large Eastern continent
AGORASIA - an oriental Greek marketplace
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APOSIOPESIS
PRONUNCIATION: (ap-uh-sy-uh-PEE-sis)
MEANING: noun: An abrupt breaking off in the middle of a sentence, as if one is unable or unwilling to proceed.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin aposiopesis, from Greek aposiopesis, from apo- (intensive prefix) + siopan (to be silent), from siope (silence). Earliest documented use: 1578.
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POSIOPESIS - the residue of ripping a flower into shreds
APOSIOPEPSIS - the competititon for aposio-Cokes
APOGIOPESIS - music with a lot of stepwise broken chords
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MARCESCENT
PRONUNCIATION: (mahr-SES-uhnt)
MEANING: adjective: Withering without falling off.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin marcescent- (beginning to wither), present participle of marcescere (to wither), from marcere (to wither). Earliest documented use: 1727.
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MARCHESCENT - growing later in the Spring
MARCIE'S CENT - that little girl in the Peanuts comic strip has a penny
MARESCENT - how a stallion can tell when a horse is in heat
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RUPESTRAL
PRONUNCIATION: (ru-PES-truhl)
MEANING: adjective: Relating to rocks. For example, living on, carved on, growing on, made of, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin rupes (rock). Earliest documented use: 1834.
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GRUPESTRAL - synchronous menstruation
RUE STRAL - a small street in suburban Strasbourg
RUPE'S TRAIL - a pathway through what is now known as Sequoia Park [California], first followed by explorer Carlos Rupe
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PRODITOMANIA
PRONUNCIATION: (pro-dit-uh-MAY-nee-uh)
MEANING: noun: The feeling or the belief that everyone around is out to get you.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin prodere (to betray). Earliest documented use: 1898.
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PRODITTOMANIA - an overwhelming drive to agree
'PHRODITOMANIA - a need to spring full-grown for your father's head
PROD-IT-OMANIA - an incurable need to disturb sleeping dogs
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SINON
PRONUNCIATION: (SY-non/nuhn)
MEANING: noun: One who misleads or betrays.
ETYMOLOGY: After Sinon, a Greek who, by his false tale, persuaded the Trojans into taking the wooden horse inside Troy. From Greek sinomai (to harm or hurt). Earliest documented use: 1581.
NOTES: Sinon, a Greek, was found by the Trojans all by himself. He told the Trojans that the Greeks had left and abandoned him because of his rivalry with Odysseus. He said that the Greeks had made the wooden horse as an offering to gods to help them have a safe journey home. He claimed that they made the horse really big so Trojans couldn’t take it inside the city. The Trojans fell for his story, dragged the horse inside, and the rest, as they say, is mythology.
Sinon was the grandson of Autolycus, known for his skill in theft and trickery. Autolycus himself was the son of Hermes, the god of cunning and theft, among other things. With a lineage like that...
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SIFON - a pressurized jar of seltzer water, popularized by Clarabelle the clown
SIGNON - how to access your Facebook account
SIN ON - how to get to Hell in one easy lesson
SÍ, NOON - ¿Is it midday in Madrid?
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