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DOCTOR'S MANDATE

PRONUNCIATION: (DOK-tuhrz MAN-dayt)

MEANING: noun: Full authority to deal with a crisis.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin doctor (teacher, later physician), from docere (to teach) + mandate, from Latin mandare (to commission, literally, to give into someone’s hand), from manus (hand) + date, from dare (to give). Earliest documented use: 1931.
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DOCTOR STAND, ATE - when the surgeon didn't have time to go to the cafeteria

DOCTOR'S ANDANTE - Doc isn't particularly fast; it's more like walking speed

D ACTOR'S MANDATE - "The Show Must Go On"

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SKID ROW

PRONUNCIATION: (skid roh)

MEANING: noun: An area where people down on their luck congregate, often struggling with poverty, addiction, or homelessness.

ETYMOLOGY: From skid road, a path where logs were skidded downhill to the lumber mill. Earliest documented use: 1920.
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SKIED ROW - a line of schussers just went by

SKID RAW - when you slide without shoes and scrape your feet

SAID "ROW" - what the Coxwain did

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SPACEARIUM

PRONUNCIATION: (spay-SAYR-ee-uhm)

MEANING: noun: A theater with a domed or concave screen on which space scenes are displayed.

ETYMOLOGY: A blend of space + planetarium. Earliest documented use: 1962.
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SPICEARIUM - a place to grow herbs and other condiments

SPACE AXIUM - Newton's universal Law of Gravitation

SPA CLEARIUM - the bathhouse has been emptied

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ECOTOPIA

PRONUNCIATION: (EE-ko-to-pee-uh, EK-o-)

MEANING: noun: An ecologically ideal place.

ETYMOLOGY: From Ecotopia (1975), the title of a novel by Ernest Callenbach. In the book, the word is used to describe the Pacific coast of the US. A blend of eco- + utopia. Earliest documented use: 1975.
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ECTO-PITA - a pocket bread that had the filling placed on the outside. For some reason it never caught on...

ECONO-PIA - an even thinner membrane around the brain

ECHO-TOPIA - a place where every sound reverberates mightily

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