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IMPASSIBLE - not traversible by vehicular traffic wofahulicodoc 01/12/2026 3:39 AM
IMPASSIBLE

PRONUNCIATION: (im-PAS-uh-buhl)

MEANING: adjective:
1. Not susceptible to suffering, pain, or injury.
2. Incapable of feeling emotion.

ETYMOLOGY: From French impassible, from Latin impassibilis, from in- (not) + passibilis (passible), from passus, past participle of pati (to suffer). Earliest documented use: 1340.
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I'M PARSIBLE - you can figure out what I'm trying to say

IMP AS BIBLE - little scamp has its own scripture

IMPASS ISLE - When you get to that island, you can't go forward, but you can't go back either. You're stuck.

["Oh, help and bother!" said Pooh!]
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O.D. ORACLE - "Oracle of the Day," the on-call soothsayer wofahulicodoc 01/12/2026 3:25 AM
ODORABLE

PRONUNCIATION: (OH-duhr-uh-buhl)

MEANING: adjective: Able to be smelled.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin odor (smell). Earliest documented use: 1589.
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FODORABLE - eligible for inclusion in a travel reference guide

ODOTABLE - a list of milage between places, often included on a road map [remember those?!]

ODORABLE - skunkish
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PUSILLANTHROPY - having very little humanity wofahulicodoc 01/12/2026 3:15 AM
PUSILANTHROPY

PRONUNCIATION: (sil-LAN-thruh-pee)

MEANING: noun: The doctrine or belief that Jesus was merely human.

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek psilo- (mere) + anthropos (human). Earliest documented use: 1821.
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EPSILANTHROPY - 1. being the fifth person in a sequence; 2. being an arbitrarily small persons

PSI-CANTHROPY - deriving pleasure from affirming supernatural forces and phenomena

PSILARTHROPY - pathology in the smallest bones, i.e. the ossicles in the middle ear
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NIB RATE - how fast you can write with this pen wofahulicodoc 01/12/2026 3:01 AM
LIBRATE

PRONUNCIATION: (LY-brayt)

MEANING: verb intr.
1. To oscillate, waver.
2. To be poised or balanced.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin libra (scales). Earliest documented use: 1623.
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L.I. IRATE - the people of Nassau and Suffolk are angry

LIBERA TE - another way to pronounce "set yourself free"

LIT RATE - the percentage of the population who can read
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