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#31152 06/04/01 03:30 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


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#31153 06/06/01 11:25 AM
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I'll go with (i).


#31154 06/06/01 11:57 AM
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I'll go with O.


#31155 06/06/01 12:16 PM
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Hmmmmm
I guess K

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#31156 06/06/01 12:18 PM
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i) for me, too


#31157 06/06/01 12:20 PM
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I think it's i.


#31158 06/06/01 01:09 PM
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I like G.


#31159 06/06/01 01:22 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 06/06/01 02:53 PM
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never fear, mav; it's A.


#31161 06/06/01 08:30 PM
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I'll go with E.


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