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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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VINOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (VY-nuhs)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Relating to, resembling, or containing wine.
2. Having the color of red wine.
3. Given to drinking wine excessively or showing the effects of doing so.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin vinum (wine), which also gave us vintage and vignette. Earliest documented use: 15th c.
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VINCUS - a periwinkle plant
VINOUT - no more French wine!
VI NOUS - we six Parisians
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VORACITY
PRONUNCIATION: (vuh/vo-RAS-i-tee)
MEANING: noun: An excessive desire to eat or consume something.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin vorare (to devour). Earliest documented use: 1526.
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IVORACITY - a modren urban landscape carved from an elephant tusk
HORA CITY - the venue for the Israeli Dance festival
OVORACITY - egggishness
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VENUST
PRONUNCIATION: (vuh-NUHST) Listen to pronunciation
MEANING: adjective: Beautiful, graceful, elegant.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin venustus (charming, beautiful), related to venus (love, charm) and to Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty. Earliest documented use: 1513.
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VENUE SET - we decided where we're perfoming
OVENUST - most roaster-like
RENU ST - where things are validated again
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CALENDER
PRONUNCIATION: (KAL-uhn-duhr) Listen to pronunciation
MEANING: noun: A machine that presses paper, cloth, or other materials between rollers to smooth, glaze, or thin them.
verb tr.: To process material in such a machine.
ETYMOLOGY: From French calandre (calender) and calandrer (to calender), ultimately from Latin cylindrus (roller), from Greek kulindros (roller, cylinder), from kulindein (to roll). Earliest documented use: 1513.
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Ca-ENDER - the big earthquake that splits the San Andreas fault so far that the West Coast ends up 5 miles offshore
CALL-ENDER - "So long" - "Love ya" - "Me, too" - "Bye"
CAR-ENDER - the rear bumper
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WHEAL
PRONUNCIATION: (hweel, weel) Listen to pronunciation
MEANING: noun: A small swelling on the skin, as from an insect bite, an allergic reaction, or a blow.
ETYMOLOGY: Perhaps an alteration of wale, from Old English walu (ridge). Earliest documented use: before 1390.
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WHEAZL - an animal that goes "Pop!" when you chase it all around the mulberry bush
WHE-ALL - first person plural subjective case pronoun in Biloxi
RHEAL - like a small three-toed ostrich-like bird that can't fly
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EXUTE
PRONUNCIATION: (ig-ZOOT/ZYOOT) Listen to pronunciation
MEANING: verb tr.: To strip or deprive of something.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin exuere (to remove, strip off, or divest). Earliest documented use: 1535.
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EX-UTE - formerly a native of the North American southwest
E-MUTE - 1. to riot; 2. you, after your parents say "OK, That's it, you're off all social media for a week"
EXPUTE - to assert that a quality or motive is lacking in a person, cause, or object (cf. IMPUTE)
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IRRUPT
PRONUNCIATION: (i-RUHPT) Listen to pronunciation
MEANING: verb intr.:
1. To burst or break in.
2. (Of a population) To increase suddenly in number.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin irrumpere, from in- (into) + rumpere (to break). Earliest documented use: 1855.
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IRR, UPS - a package with a minor or superficial defect not affecting its declared function, delivered by a brown truck
I.R. SUPT - the superintendent radiates warmth
IRRUST - I oxidize in Edinburgh if you leave me out in the rrain
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