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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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SQUAREHEAD
PRONUNCIATION: (SKWAIR-hed)
MEANING: noun:
1. An honest person; a non-criminal.
2. A stupid person.
ETYMOLOGY. From square, from Latin exquadrare (to square) + head, from Old English heafod (top of the body). Earliest documented use: 1890.
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SQUIREHEAD - the chamber wherein the noble attendant to a knight performs his evacuations and ablutions
'SQUAKEHEAD - it's the epicenter of a modest tremblor
SQUAREHEAP - derogatory description of a Egptian pyramid
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CIRCLE THE WAGONS
PRONUNCIATION: (SUHR-kuhl thuh WAG-uhnz)
MEANING: idiom: To gather a group together to assume a defensive stance.
ETYMOLOGY: From circle, from Latin circulus (circle) + wagon, from Dutch wagen. Earliest documented use: mid-1800s.
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CIRCLET: HEW AGONY - a small piece of jewelry that can reduce acute pain
"CIRCLE THE BAG," ON "S" - quarterback in the huddle calling a football play
C-IN-C LET THE WAGONS - supreme army commander rented the carrier vehicles
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SQUARE-TOED
PRONUNCIATION: (skwair-tohd)
MEANING: adjective: Old-fashioned or conservative.
ETYMOLOGY: From square, from Latin exquadrare (to square) + toe, from Old English ta (toe). Earliest documented use: 1785.
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'S "QUARTET" - O.E.D. - according to the Oxford English Dictionary, it's a diminutive quart
STUART-TOED - feet pointing inward, a little-known hereditary deformity affecting members of the royal Stuart family
SQUAB RE-TOED - sewed the digits back on the feet of a young pigeon
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CIRCUMLOCUTION
PRONUNCIATION: (suhr-kuhm-loh-KYOO-shuhn)
MEANING: noun: The use of roundabout language, especially to avoid giving a direct answer.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin circum- (around) + locution (talk), from loqui (to speak). Earliest documented use: 1518.
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CIRCUS-LOCUTION - the Ringmaster's spiel
CIRCUMLOCATION - to drive 'round and 'round and still be unable to find where you're going
C-IN-C-UMLOCUTION - a speech by the hHigh Commander of the Armed Forces
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SQUARE THE CIRCLE
PRONUNCIATION: (skwair thuh SUHR-kuhl)
MEANING: idiom: To accomplish what appears to be impossible, especially in satisfying conflicting requirements.
ETYMOLOGY: From the classical geometric problem of constructing, using only a compass and straightedge, a square equal in area to a given circle. Earliest documented use: 1624.
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SQUIRE, THE CIRCLE - the knight's attendant alerts his Master about a feature of the approaching formation
SQUARETTE CIRCLE - lots of four-equal-sided almost-right-angled figures arranged equidistant from a central point
SQUARE THEIR CLE - slogan supporting a proposal to redo the layout of Cleveland International Airport
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CADGY
PRONUNCIATION: (KAJ-ee)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Wanton; lustful.
2. Cheerful.
ETYMOLOGY: Of uncertain origin. Earliest documented use: 1724.
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CABG-Y - obsessed by the fact of just having had bypass graft surgeru
SCADGY - beset by a whole lot of small but unpleasant nuisances
SAD-GY - the man with the woeful look to him
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