#60184
03/08/2002 5:24 PM
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that shares the same suffix? Today's word being iracund....
#60185
03/08/2002 5:29 PM
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veracundea~ EDIT: aha, mea culpa ~ i was reading the threads in order and didn't realize this was already being discussed further south.
#60186
03/08/2002 5:31 PM
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the last bunch of posts on "Today's Word" might interest you! I came up with moribund
#60187
03/08/2002 5:59 PM
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[white]moribund[/white] c is part of the suffix.
#60188
03/08/2002 6:03 PM
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I m-wed *cund and the best candidate is jocund. This seems to me an imperfect antonym.
#60189
03/08/2002 6:27 PM
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>...an imperfect antonym.
perhaps it's the old "what do you mean by opposite" problem?
http://home.mn.rr.com/wwftd/
#60190
03/11/2002 12:45 PM
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mg,
Merriam-Webster offers what could be called a rhyming dictionary. It allows the use of * as a wild card on either end of a word. So you could go there, type in *cund, and see what pops up:
http://m-w.com/
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