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PRONUNCIATION: (in-i-LUHK-tuh-buhl) MEANING: adjective: Impossible to avoid: inescapable. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin in- (not) + eluctari (to struggle out of), from ex- (out) + luctari (to struggle). Earliest documented use: 1623. ==========================================================
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INRELUCTABLE - not afraid of being afraid
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INELECTABLE -- what they called Harry Truman in 1948 and ______________ in 2016 (insert Dark Horse of choice)
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MALINGER
PRONUNCIATION: (muh-LING-guhr)
MEANING: verb intr.: To feign illness in order to avoid work.
ETYMOLOGY: From French malingre (sickly). Earliest documented use: 1820.
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MEALINGER - after-dinner conversation
Runner-up: MAILINGER - Dead-Letter Office
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UNELECTABLE -- what they called Harry Truman in 1948 and THAT WOMAN in 2016 (insert Dark Horse of choice)
Mmmm? On second thought I'd rather have a dark horse than That Woman.
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PRONUNCIATION: (muh-LING-guhr) MEANING: verb intr.: To feign illness in order to avoid work. ETYMOLOGY: From French malingre (sickly). Earliest documented use: 1820. ============================================================= + f
MAL-FINGER - the bad middle finger
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MEALINGER - after-dinner conversation
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SALINGER - a writer who was a malinger.
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MAFINGER – an exclamation of surprise commonly used when attempting to drive a nail.
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nimiety
PRONUNCIATION: (ni-MY-i-tee) MEANING: noun: Excess or redundancy. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin nimius (too much). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ne (not), which also gave us nil, null, not, never, nothing, nihilism, annihilate, and naughty. Earliest documented use: 1542. ==============================================================
NIMPIETY - the act of having too much piety; so much that you change the World. (See... Nelson Mandela}
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