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Bromaide - Eragon, in his youth

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Bromaide - Eragon, in his youth


Now I like that. I have about 100 pages in book 4 left.


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tinnient

PRONUNCIATION: (TIN-ee-uhnt)

MEANING:
adjective: Ringing or tinkling.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin tinnire (to ring), of imitative origin, which also gave us tintinnabulation. Earliest documented use: 1668.
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thinnient - being chased by a bear

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TINNIMENT - a substandard multi-apartment building put up by a canny slumlord

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extraterritoriality
PRONUNCIATION: (ek-struh-ter-i-tor-ee-AL-i-tee)
MEANING: noun:
1. Exemption from the jurisdiction of local law, for example, as for diplomats.
2. The applicability of a state's laws outside its territory.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin extra- (outside) + territorium (land around a town), from terra (land). Earliest documented use: 1836.
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rextraterritoriality - the right of a King to rule whatever land he can coerce or conquer

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All weak, but surprisingly many options:

-- HEXTRATERRITORALITY: an affiliation of Six Nations, like the Iroquois

-- EXTRACTERRITORIALITY: 1) Strip mining 2) debugging, in pretentious jargon

-- EXTRATERRITORIACITY: a vulgar claim to be a Stranger in a Strange Land

-- EXTRATERRITORIALIFY: to remove from any outside jurisdiction by converting to an independent political entity, like the Vatican City, or (discussed from time to time) Jerusalem

-- EXTRATERRITOCIALITY: an out-of-this-world experience while giving birth (compare "dystocia")

-- EXTRATERRITORIALITH: moon rock


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