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PROLEPSIS

PRONUNCIATION: (pro-LEP-sis)

MEANING:
noun:
1. The use of a descriptive word in anticipation of the result. Example: The word hot in hot water heater.
2. The anticipation and answering of an objection or argument before it's raised. Also known as prebuttal.
3. The representation of an event before it actually happened. Example: He lost the game even before the match began.
4. The anachronistic representation of an event before its actual time. Also known as prochronism. Example: A depiction of people talking wirelessly over long distances in 18th century.
5. A literary technique in which the author drops hints of things to come. Also known as foreshadowing.
6. The return of a paroxysm of a periodic disease before its usual time or at progressively shorter intervals.

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PYROLEPSIS -- pre-ignition

PUROLEPSIS -- Whaddya mean you changed my oil at just 750 miles ??!!

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PAROLEPSIS- to request a release from jail before the crime is committed.

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PROLEPSIS - ambitious amateur

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PROLAPSIS - "How many pregnancies have you had? Your innards are going to drop out!"

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agglutinate

PRONUNCIATION:
(verb: uh-GLOOT-n-ayt, adjective: uh-GLOOT-n-it, -ayt)

MEANING:
verb tr., intr.:
1. To form words by combining words or word elements.
2. To join or become joined as if by glue.
3. To clump or cause to clump, as red blood cells.

adjective:
1. Joined or tending to join.
2. Relating to a language that makes complex words by joining words or word elements extensively. For example as in Turkish.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin gluten (glue). Earliest documented use: 1541.
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AGGLUTIMATE - an inseparable mating

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WAGGLUTINATE - Twerking gone wild.

A couple who lived in New Delhi
Had to walk around belly to belly

...Because, in their haste,
...They reached for the paste
Instead of the vaginal jelly!

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WAGGLUTINATE - Twerking gone wild.

A couple who lived in New Delhi
Had to walk around belly to belly

...Because, in their haste,
...They reached for the paste
Instead of the vaginal jelly!



Wofahulicodoc at his vulgarist and funniest. laugh

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KABUKI

PRONUNCIATION: (kah-BOO-kee, KAH-boo-kee)

MEANING:
1. A form of Japanese drama that includes highly stylized movements, dances, singing, and miming, and all parts are played by males.
2. Done for the show only; make-believe.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Japanese kabuki, from ka (song) + bu (dance) + ki (skill). Apparently this is a reinterpreted form of the verb kabuku (to lean, deviate, or act dissolutely). Kabuki is the popular form of the older Noh, the classical drama of Japan. Earliest documented use: 1899.

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KABUKII

PRONUNCIATION: (kah-BOO-kee, KAH-boo-kee)

MEANING:
1. A form of Japanese drama that includes highly stylized movements, dances, singing, and miming, and all parts are played by males.
2. Done for the show only; make-believe.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Japanese kabuki, from ka (song) + bu (dance) + ki (skill). Apparently this is a reinterpreted form of the verb kabuku (to lean, deviate, or act dissolutely). Kabuki is the popular form of the older Noh, the classical drama of Japan. Earliest documented use: 1899.

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YABOKII- as in shake your bootie

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KABUKU - A traditional dance with nine people moving on a square stage, but with no two of them ever in the same row or column

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