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ODORABLE

PRONUNCIATION: (OH-duhr-uh-buhl)

MEANING: adjective: Able to be smelled.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin odor (smell). Earliest documented use: 1589.
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FODORABLE - eligible for inclusion in a travel reference guide

ODOTABLE - a list of milage between places, often included on a road map [remember those?!]

ODORABLE - skunkish

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IMPASSIBLE

PRONUNCIATION: (im-PAS-uh-buhl)

MEANING: adjective:
1. Not susceptible to suffering, pain, or injury.
2. Incapable of feeling emotion.

ETYMOLOGY: From French impassible, from Latin impassibilis, from in- (not) + passibilis (passible), from passus, past participle of pati (to suffer). Earliest documented use: 1340.
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I'M PARSIBLE - you can figure out what I'm trying to say

IMP AS BIBLE - little scamp has its own scripture

IMPASS ISLE - When you get to that island, you can't go forward, but you can't go back either. You're stuck.

["Oh, help and bother!" said Pooh!]

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