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#213437 - 12/04/13 03:32 PM Ineluctable is an ineluctable word and I 'm stuck [Re: jenny jenny]
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PRONUNCIATION:
(in-i-LUHK-tuh-buhl)
MEANING:
adjective: Impossible to avoid: inescapable.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin in- (not) + eluctari (to struggle out of), from ex- (out) + luctari (to struggle). Earliest documented use: 1623.
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INRELUCTABLE - not afraid of being afraid
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INELECTABLE -- what they called Harry Truman in 1948 and ______________ in 2016 (insert Dark Horse of choice)
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PRONUNCIATION: (muh-LING-guhr)
MEANING: verb intr.: To feign illness in order to avoid work.
ETYMOLOGY: From French malingre (sickly). Earliest documented use: 1820.
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MEALINGER - after-dinner conversation
Runner-up: MAILINGER - Dead-Letter Office
#213456 - 12/05/13 04:12 PM Re: another projective test [Re: wofahulicodoc]
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UNELECTABLE -- what they called Harry Truman in 1948 and THAT WOMAN in 2016 (insert Dark Horse of choice)
Mmmm? On second thought I'd rather have a dark horse than That Woman.
#213460 - 12/05/13 05:57 PM Joined: Jun 2010
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PRONUNCIATION: (muh-LING-guhr)
MEANING:
verb intr.: To feign illness in order to avoid work.
ETYMOLOGY:
From French malingre (sickly). Earliest documented use: 1820.
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MAL-FINGER - the bad middle finger
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MEALINGER - after-dinner conversation
#213466 - 12/06/13 05:20 AM Joined: Jun 2010
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SALINGER - a writer who was a malinger.
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#213472 - 12/06/13 04:38 PM Joined: Jun 2010
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PRONUNCIATION: (ni-MY-i-tee)
MEANING:
noun: Excess or redundancy.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin nimius (too much). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ne (not), which also gave us nil, null, not, never, nothing, nihilism, annihilate, and naughty. Earliest documented use: 1542.
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NIMPIETY - the act of having too much piety; so much that you change the World. (See... Nelson Mandela}
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----please, draw me a sheep----
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