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from 9/30/26 above:
IDIOCRACY - government twice yearly by joyful Islamic festival, with minor lesser governing on a weekly basis
Correction: that should have been "EIDEOCRACY"
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ANDROGENOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (an-DROJ-uh-nuhs)
MEANING: adjective: Producing only or predominantly male offspring.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek andro- (male) + -genous (producing). Earliest documented use: 1750s.
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ANDIROGENOUS - giving rise to fireplace instruments
ANEROGENOUS - without any component of sexual stimulation
ANDROGEN-OPUS - the synthesis of masculinizing hormone was a major accomplishment
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CALQUE
PRONUNCIATION: (kalk) Listen to pronunciation
MEANING: noun: A word or expression formed by translating the components of a term from another language; a loan translation.
ETYMOLOGY: From French calque (copy), from calquer (to trace or copy), from Italian calcare (to press or tread), from Latin calcare (to tread on), from calx (heel). Earliest documented use: 1926.
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BALQUE - a relatively esoteric baseball term referring to a disallowed movement on the part of the pitcher permitting any baserunner to advance gratuitously
CALOQUE - vernacular for "in the vernacular"
CASQUE - flowery term for a barrel, though less precisely defined
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