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ZOOLATRY

PRONUNCIATION: (zo-OL-uh-tree)

MEANING: noun:
1. The worship of animals.
2. Extreme devotion to animals, for example, to one’s pets.

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek zoo- (animal) + -latry (worship). Earliest documented use: 1784.
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AZO-OLATRY - worship of nitrogen

BOOLATRY - worship of simple logical concepts ( and, or, not, both )

ZOO, LARRY? - Curly and Moe are thinking of visiting the captive animals on display

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CRYPTOGENIC

PRONUNCIATION: (krip-tuh-JEN-ik)

MEANING: adjective: Of unknown origin or cause.

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek crypto- (secret, hidden) + -genic (producing, produced by). Earliest documented use: 1873.
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CRYPTOGENIE - Robin Williams blue cartoon character role in Aladdin at its most obscure

CRY "PETOGENIC" - claim loudly that something is the origin of domesticated animals

CRAPTOGENIC - describing the source of all b******t

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SUBLINEATE - to underline.

S'BLIMEY MATE (contraction of "May Jesus blame me") - oath used in parts of 19th-century London.

DUBLINATE (adj) - pertaining to the style of James Joyce and his imitators.

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PROPRIOCEPTION

PRONUNCIATION: (pro-pree-uh/oh-SEP-shuhn)

MEANING: noun: The awareness of location of parts of one’s body.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin proprius (one’s own) + reception, from recipere (to receive), from capere (to take). Earliest documented use: 1906.
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PROPRIOCEPT-ICON - how you recognize the applet that displays the location of your body parts

PRO PRIORCEPTION - in favor of picking up an earlier broadcast

PRO PRINCEPTION - a professional campaign director to facilitate the ascension of the eldest son to the throne

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MACROSMOTIC

PRONUNCIATION: (mak-rahz-MAT-ik)

MEANING: adjective: Having a well-developed sense of smell.

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek macro- (large) + osmatic, from French osmatique, from Greek osme (smell). Earliest documented use: 1890.
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MACRO-S'MORIC - like very large cookies made of Graham crackers and chocolate bits and marshmallows

MACRO-SMOOTIC - longer than the Harvard Bridge in Boston (which is 364.4-and-one-ear Smoots in length)

MACH-OSMOTIC - diffusing through a semi-permeable membrane at supersonic speed

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PHOTOPHOBIA

PRONUNCIATION: (fo-tuh-FO-bee-uh)

MEANING: noun: An abnormal sensitivity to light.

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek photo- (light) + -phobia (fear). Earliest documented use: 1772.
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PROTOPHOBIA - a fear that is as yet only half-formed

PHOBOPHOBIA - what Franklin D Roosevelt was warning about with his admonition "The only thing we have to fear is Fear itself"

PHONOPHOBIA - fear of the needle shrieking while skittering across an old 78-rpm record

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AMUSIA

PRONUNCIATION: (ay-MYOO-zee-uh)

MEANING: noun: The inability to recognize, reproduce, or appreciate music.

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek a- (not) + mousike (music), from Mousa (Muse). Earliest documented use: 1890.
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AMUSIAL - not having a shortstop, in St Louis

CAMUSIA - strangeness (just ask a scholar of French literature)

"AM USA !" - said Uncle Sam when he was just a nephew

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GUSTATORY

PRONUNCIATION: (GUHS-tuh-TOR-ee)

MEANING: adjective: Relating to the sense of taste.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin gustare (to taste). Earliest documented use: 1684.
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JUSTATORY - dismissive pre-Revoutionary-War term for anyone sympathetic with the British

GESTATORY - pertaining to pregnancy

ANGUSTATORY - beef-flavored

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ELLIPTIC

PRONUNCIATION: (i-LIP-tik)

MEANING: adjective
1. Marked by extreme economy of expression in speech or writing.
2. Cryptic, ambiguous, or obscure.
3. Marked by ellipsis: the omission of one or more words from a sentence.
4. Relating to or shaped like an ellipse.

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek eleipein (to come short). Earliest documented use: 1715. The word is also used in its longer form, elliptical.
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ELLIP-STIC - mouth-coloring for men

ELL-OPTIC - the twelfth lens

ELI-P.T.-IC - like freshman Physical Education at Yale

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TRIANGULATION

PRONUNCIATION: (try-ang-gyuh-LAY-shuhn)

MEANING: noun:
1. Determining the position of a point by measuring angles to it from two points a known distance apart.
2. Positioning between two extremes, especially in politics.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin triangulare (to make a triangle), from triangulus (three-cornered). Earliest documented use: 1818.
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TRIANNULATION - three simultaneous divorce ceremonies

TRI-BANGULATION - wearing exactly three wristlets

TRIANNULATION - converting a modest show into a three-ring circus

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