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#209796 - 02/26/13 10:44 AM Re: Pogophile improved... [Re: jenny jenny]
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Lancaster, UK
I'm immortal until proven otherwise
#209800 - 02/26/13 04:01 PM Joined: Jun 2010
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Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi
homologous
PRONUNCIATION: (huh-MOL-uh-guhs, hoh-)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Exhibiting a degree of correspondence or similarity.
2. Corresponding in structure and evolutionary origin, but not necessarily in function.
For example, human arm, dog foreleg, bird wing, and whale flipper are homologous.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek homo- (same) + logos (word, proportion, reason). Earliest documented use: 1660.
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L > B
HOMOBOGOUS - different day same swamp
#209812 - 02/27/13 02:37 AM Joined: Aug 2001
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Worcester, MA
HOROLOGOUS - like a clock
HOMOLOGONS - men signing into compter networks
HOMOZOGOUS - dwelling in the Emerald City, by the grace of Glinda
HUMOLOGOUS - funnily worded? or maybe, moistly worded?
#209818 - 02/27/13 03:05 PM Joined: Jun 2010
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Lower Aberdeen, Mississippi
with Anu Garg
hagiarchy
PRONUNCIATION: (HAG-ee-ar-kee, HAY-jee-)
MEANING:
noun: A government by holy persons. Also a place thus governed.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek hagi- (holy) + -archy (rule). Earliest documented use: 1826.
NOTES:
Two synonyms of this term are hagiocracy and hierocracy. Also, literally speaking, hierarchy is the rule of the high priest.
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HAGIARCH - a rain b o w
#209819 - 02/27/13 05:08 PM Joined: Jun 2008
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Land of the Flat Water
a once holy place now a museum
----please, draw me a sheep----
#209821 - 02/27/13 05:13 PM Joined: Nov 2011
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Lancaster, UK
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#209822 - 02/27/13 05:38 PM Joined: May 2010
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Alaska
#209823 - 02/27/13 05:46 PM Joined: Jun 2008
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Land of the Flat Water
I like this, Peter.
----please, draw me a sheep----
#209826 - 02/27/13 08:41 PM Joined: Nov 2011
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Lancaster, UK
lagiarchy - government by a bunch of crooks.
(Now whch gov't could THAT be?)
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#209842 - 02/28/13 03:17 PM Joined: Jun 2010
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archetype
PRONUNCIATION:(AHR-ki-typ)
MEANING:
noun:
1. The original pattern or model of something; prototype.
2. An ideal or typical example of something.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek arche- (first, original) + -type (model, mold). Earliest documented use: 1605.
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ARCHIETYPE - the original Archie in the Archie Boy Comics
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