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ANTI-P LARGE - polyuria (high volume of urine)
wofahulicodoc
07/28/2026 2:26 AM
ANTIPELARGY
PRONUNCIATION: (an-ti-peh-LAR-jee)
MEANING: noun: The love and care children return to their parents; more broadly, any requital or mutual kindness.
ETYMOLOGY: Via French antipelargie or Latin antipelargia, ultimately from Greek anti- (in return) + pelargos (stork). Greek and Roman writers claimed that young storks fed their aged parents, making the stork an emblem of filial devotion. Earliest documented English use: 1649.
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ANTIPELAGRY - Niacin (Vitamin B3). (Pellagra is a vitamin deficiency disease.)
ANTI-ELARGY - antagonist to the foreign supstances which make for itching and other irritations in response to an antigen
XANTIPE-LARGO - Socrates' wife moved very slowly, though ever so stately
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Re: Common long words
wofahulicodoc
07/26/2026 8:16 PM
And then there are Stanley Kunitz' self-reported "favorite" words:
"eleëmosynary" and
"phantasmagorical"
A friend of his made a documentary movie about him - I don't know whether it was ever released to the general public - and posed the question to him. They sound different as he uttered them.
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