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#31152 06/04/2001 3:30 PM
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The word is malaxate. Your choices are:

a) to soften and incorporate by rubbing or rolling, and mixing with a thinner substance

b) a badly worked piece of wood

c) Demon-possessed

d) a cleaning procedure for graffiti

e) to appear tense or rigid due to stiff posture

f) A formula, in Alchemy, that arouses hatred in the drinker

g) The condition that describes the abnormal positioning of the lower and upper maxilla that may result in the jaw muscles going into spasms

h) a laxative in chewable form

i) A wobble on the axis of a gyroscope inducing a turning force that causes a deflection in its course. Also known as gyroscopic precession

j) v To deliberately, with ill-intent, induce diarrhoea in another

k) a term from logic used to describe an internally self-consistent system that is in fact false because the axioms on which it is based are false.

l) adj. - of the class of drugs given as enemas to parturient women

m) to purge the mind of bad thoughts

n) a mildly acidic carbonate usu. found in dental fillings

o) dislocated; out of joint

p) To mischop a piece of firewood


Please post your votes by 8 pm Thursday, June 7.

#31153 06/06/2001 11:25 AM
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I'll go with (i).


#31154 06/06/2001 11:57 AM
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I'll go with O.


#31155 06/06/2001 12:16 PM
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Hmmmmm
I guess K

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#31156 06/06/2001 12:18 PM
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i) for me, too


#31157 06/06/2001 12:20 PM
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I think it's i.


#31158 06/06/2001 1:09 PM
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I like G.


#31159 06/06/2001 1:22 PM
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From pottery days, I would go with A - but I don't think it can be the verb, surely, with ~ate ending?


#31160 06/06/2001 2:53 PM
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never fear, mav; it's A.


#31161 06/06/2001 8:30 PM
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I'll go with E.


#31162 06/06/2001 8:35 PM
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#31163 06/06/2001 11:45 PM
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I like "k" but somehow it's just too ingeniously thorough...and my kudos to "j" and all Diarrhea-Inducing Sadists everywhere!

But my vote goes to M, because it seems so lonely right now. And because I think it's a verb.


#31164 06/07/2001 3:38 AM
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I'm very tempted by g. I notice the board's medical adviser has not voted. Is this because he knows the answer and is too sporting to give the game away? Yes, g it is.

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#31165 06/07/2001 4:26 AM
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never fear, mav; it's A.

i'm with tsuwm. and mav hi, A!!!.




#31166 06/07/2001 9:30 AM
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A

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#31167 06/07/2001 10:27 AM
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The heN might be able to get me beyond an egg score.
(I doubt it)




#31168 06/07/2001 6:20 PM
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Nother vote for the yucky dental answer.


#31169 06/07/2001 11:55 PM
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I can't remember whether I voted via PM or not, so I'll say (A) if I didn't



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