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AMESIA - unable to remember the letter "N"
wofahulicodoc
04/26/24 02:46 AM
AMUSIA
PRONUNCIATION: (ay-MYOO-zee-uh)
MEANING: noun: The inability to recognize, reproduce, or appreciate music.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek a- (not) + mousike (music), from Mousa (Muse). Earliest documented use: 1890.
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AMUSIAL - not having a shortstop, in St Louis
CAMUSIA - strangeness (just ask a scholar of French literature)
"AM USA !" - said Uncle Sam when he was just a nephew
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Simple pleasures
A C Bowden
04/25/24 12:42 AM
A dullard who lived in Dundee
Watched quizzes and games on TV.
He found it too boring
To follow the scoring –
He just liked the clapping, you see.
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PHYTOPHOBIA - dislike of plants
wofahulicodoc
04/24/24 05:30 PM
PHOTOPHOBIA
PRONUNCIATION: (fo-tuh-FO-bee-uh)
MEANING: noun: An abnormal sensitivity to light.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek photo- (light) + -phobia (fear). Earliest documented use: 1772.
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PROTOPHOBIA - a fear that is as yet only half-formed
PHOBOPHOBIA - what Franklin D Roosevelt was warning about with his admonition "The only thing we have to fear is Fear itself"
PHONOPHOBIA - fear of the needle shrieking while skittering across an old 78-rpm record
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MACROSMATIC - a major attack of wheezing
wofahulicodoc
04/24/24 05:24 PM
MACROSMOTICPRONUNCIATION: (mak-rahz-MAT-ik) MEANING: adjective: Having a well-developed sense of smell. ETYMOLOGY: From Greek macro- (large) + osmatic, from French osmatique, from Greek osme (smell). Earliest documented use: 1890. ___________________________________ MACRO-S'MORIC - like very large cookies made of Graham crackers and chocolate bits and marshmallows MACRO-SMOOTIC - longer than the Harvard Bridge in Boston (which is 364.4-and-one-ear Smoots in length) MACH-OSMOTIC - diffusing through a semi-permeable membrane at supersonic speed
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POP-RIO-CEPTION - Carnivàl party in Argentina
wofahulicodoc
04/24/24 05:09 PM
PROPRIOCEPTION
PRONUNCIATION: (pro-pree-uh/oh-SEP-shuhn)
MEANING: noun: The awareness of location of parts of one’s body.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin proprius (one’s own) + reception, from recipere (to receive), from capere (to take). Earliest documented use: 1906.
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PROPRIOCEPT-ICON - how you recognize the applet that displays the location of your body parts
PRO PRIORCEPTION - in favor of picking up an earlier broadcast
PRO PRINCEPTION - a professional campaign director to facilitate the ascension of the eldest son to the throne
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