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Word of the day: cantankerous PRONUNCIATION: (kan-TANG-kuhr-uhs) MEANING: adjective: Difficult to deal with: ill-tempered, quarrelsome. ETYMOLOGY: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Middle English contak (contention). Earliest documented use: 1736. __________________________________________________
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CANTHANKEROUS: easy to deal with: pleasingly-tempered, thankful.
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Add an M = Mantankerous
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FANTANKEROUS
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CANCANKEROUS -- The chorus line has venereal disease ?
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CANCUNKEROUS
vacationers obsessed with the same Mexican vacation spot
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A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg impudent
PRONUNCIATION: (IM-pyuh-duhnt) MEANING:adjective: Marked by offensive boldness. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin im- (not) + pudere (to make or be ashamed) which also gave us pudibund (prudish), pudency (modesty), and pudeur (a sense of shame). Earliest documented use: 1386. _______________________________________________________
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WIMPUDENT: mealy-mouthed offensive boldness.
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IMPUDON'T
forbidden peccadillos (loosely translated, "Get away from here, you young scamp!")
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Monday's word: pteridology
PRONUNCIATION:(ter-i-DOL-uh-jee) MEANING: noun: The study of ferns.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek pterido (fern) + -logy (study). Ultimately from the Indo-European root pet- (to rush or fly), which also gave us feather, petition, compete, perpetual, propitious, pinnate, and lepidopterology. Earliest documented use: 1855. ______________________________________________
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PETERIDOLOGY: noun The study of Peter (singular).
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petrineodology, the scuttlebutt about who will be the next Pope, called the throne of Peter the first pope.
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