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SWALE

PRONUNCIATION: (swayl)

MEANING: noun: A low tract of land, especially one that is moist or marshy; also, a shallow channel or depression.

ETYMOLOGY: Origin uncertain. Earliest documented use: 1584.
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S'KWALE - what you go hunting for with retriever dogs, (along with pheasant)

U.S. WALE - an Ahab-class cruiser, now obsolete

SW AXLE - what the southwest wheels turn on

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SWOUND

PRONUNCIATION: (swound or swoond)

MEANING: noun: A swoon; a fainting fit.
verb intr.: To swoon; to faint.

ETYMOLOGY: An alteration of Middle English swoun(e), from swounen (to swoon). Earliest documented use: 1440.
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SW HOUND - when you have a dog every 45ยบ it's the one in the lower left-hand corner

SHOUND - the waters between Long Isand and Connecticut, when drunk

TWO UND - the successor to the successor of a number, in Hochschule

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VIAND

PRONUNCIATION: (VY-uhnd)

MEANING: noun: 1. An item of food, especially a tasty dish.
2. (In plural) Provisions.

ETYMOLOGY: From Old French viande, ultimately from Latin vivere (to live). Earliest documented use: 1400.
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EVIAND - rinsed with bottled water

IAND - with THOU, title of a book by Martin Buber about making Kilodollars

VAND - a stick with magical properties in the lower east side of New York City

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ADAMANTINE

PRONUNCIATION: (ad-uh-MAN-teen/tin)

MEANING: adjective:
1. Unyielding; inflexibly firm.
2. Resembling adamant or diamond in hardness or luster.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin adamant (hard metal, steel, diamond, etc.), from Greek adamas (adamant), from a- (not) + daman (to conquer). Earliest documented use: around 1225.
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MADAM ANTINE - owner of Antine's Escort Services, LLC

ADAMANT MINE - where very hard minerals are extracted

A DAMN TINE - I've been impaled on one of the points of a pitchfork

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VERDUROUS

PRONUNCIATION: (VUHR-juh-ruhs)

MEANING: adjective: Abounding in green vegetation; verdant.

ETYMOLOGY: From Old French verd (green), from Latin viridis (green). Earliest documented use: 1604.
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VERDIROUS - extravagantly dramatic and showy, with lavish orchestration

OVER-DUROUS - simply too hard

VERTUROUS - only the finest-quality art of any form

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