#214479 - 03/17/14 09:13 PM
"I see your point," Tom said sharply
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ACUITY
PRONUNCIATION: (uh-KYOO-i-tee)
MEANING: noun: Sharpness; keenness.
ETYMOLOGY: Via French from Latin acuere (to sharpen). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ak- (sharp), which is also the source of acrid, vinegar, acid, acute, edge, hammer, heaven, eager, oxygen, mediocre, paragon, and acescent. Earliest documented use: 1400.
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AQUITY - watered stock
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#214481 - 03/18/14 11:38 AM
Re: "I see your point," Tom said sharply
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AKUITY=High faluttin' cat.
Edited by LukeJavan8 (03/18/14 11:39 AM)
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#214483 - 03/18/14 12:30 PM
A sad desuetude of the once happy word DESUETUDE
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desuetude PRONUNCIATION:(DES-wi-tood, -tyood) MEANING: noun: A state of disuse. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin de- (away from) + suescere (to become accustomed). Earliest documented use: 1623. USAGE: "Far from being a high-tech wonder, the Earth Station had a sad, neglected air about it, a feeling of desuetude and abandonment." Douglas Preston; Impact; Forge Books; 2010. ======================================================== DE-SUET-DUDE - de dude who makes de soap. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn. -John Updike, writer (1932-2009) Yeah. That's what I thought about Rabbit Redux. 
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#214485 - 03/18/14 09:24 PM
Re: A sad desuetude of the once happy word DESUETUDE
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DE SUE-TUBE - used by unscrupulous lawyers to record and share videos of their court cases
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#214486 - 03/19/14 12:39 PM
Rubens would be so proud
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TURGID
PRONUNCIATION: (TUR-jid)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Swollen; congested.
2. Pompous; high-flown.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin turgere (to swell). Earliest documented use: 1620.
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STURGID - the fish that gives you black caviar when you have a stuffed nose
SURGID - nametag worn by the doctor who's about to take out your appendix
THURGID - what his friends called the lawyer who Marshalled his arguments to present Brown v. Board of Education to the Supreme Court, years before he was appointed to the bench himself
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#214488 - 03/19/14 01:41 PM
Re: Rubens would be so proud
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TURGRID - the congested morning traffic found in every city where the streets form a grid ============================================================== A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:It's best to give while your hand is still warm. -Philip Roth, novelist (b. 1933) That's easy for you to say, Phillip Roth. 
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#214492 - 03/20/14 09:15 AM
The pretentious use of the word SCIOLISM
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sciolism
PRONUNCIATION: (SY-uh-liz-uhm)
MEANING:
noun: Pretentious display of superficial knowledge.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Late Latin sciolus (smatterer), diminutive of Latin scius (knowing), from scire (to know). Ultimately from the Indo-European root skei- (to cut or split), which also gave us schism, ski, shin, science, conscience, nice, scienter, nescient, exscind, and adscititious. Earliest documented use: 1810.
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SCIOLIST - he who understands that all knowledge is superficial ()
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#214493 - 03/20/14 09:53 AM
nolidj is power
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SCOOLISM - Education, for everybody! (especially spelling)
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#214494 - 03/20/14 05:33 PM
nolidj is power - Mark II
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How about
SCIOLIS - a little-known Italian pastry dessert
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