#214799 - 04/22/14 09:44 AM
Re: A bombax word for Tuesday: BOMBASTIC
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BOMBATTIC - the IED assembly line is upstairs under the roof
BIMBASTIC - acting like a floozy, and proud of it, too (see also
BOOBASTIC and BOMBUSTIC)
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#214803 - 04/22/14 06:14 PM
Re: A bombax word for Tuesday: BOMBASTIC
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BOMBTASTIC - you da bomb, bro
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#214804 - 04/23/14 09:22 AM
IMPECUNIOUS
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impecunious PRONUNCIATION: (im-pi-KYOO-nee-uhs) MEANING: adjective: Having little or no money. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin im- (not) + pecunia (money), from pecus (cattle). Ultimately from the Indo-European root peku- (wealth), which also gave us fee, fief, fellow, peculiar, impecunious, and pecuniary. Earliest documented use: 1596. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY
Action is eloquence ----------William Shakespeare, impecunious poet and playwright (1564-1616) _________________________________________ IMPECUNIOUS - a sad but ongoing condition of most imps 
Edited by jenny jenny (04/23/14 11:23 AM)
Edit Reason: to correctly spell subject word
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#214806 - 04/23/14 04:54 PM
Re: IMPECUNIOUS
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IMPETUNIOUS - gotta lotta P. hybrida growing in my garden. (Did you know it means "tobacco" in a Tupi-Guarani language? Neither did I. Where would we be without Wikipedia...) IMPECURIOUS - sounds like saying the same thing twice, doesn't it?
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#214808 - 04/23/14 06:31 PM
Re: IMPECUNIOUS
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#214815 - 04/24/14 09:05 AM
in recognition of the Paschal season
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PETULANT
PRONUNCIATION: (PECH-uh-lent)
MEANING: adjective: Bad-tempered; cranky.
ETYMOLOGY: [From Latin petere (to seek, assail). Ultimately from the Indo-European root pet- (to rush or fly), which also gave us feather, petition, compete, perpetual, propitious, pteridology, pinnate, and lepidopterology. Earliest documented use: 1598.
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false starts:
petulant = having petals? like a petunia?
petulant = sings like Ms Clark?
petulant = mildly explosive, even gassy, as in "hoist by his own petard"?
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PESTULANT - afflicted with two Pharaonic Plagues simultaneously: Pestilence, and Boils (pustules)
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#214819 - 04/24/14 12:25 PM
no concept at all
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...and going back to March 31:
INTERREGNUM-->
INTERPREGNUM - the time between babies
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#214822 - 04/24/14 10:07 PM
In search of quality education
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PETULANE - the bad temper of students who find they have been rejected by Tulane and so must attend Harvard instead.
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#214824 - 04/25/14 12:29 AM
In search of Perfect Words
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incorrigible
PRONUNCIATION: (in-KOR-i-juh-buhl)
MEANING:
adjective: Incapable of being corrected or reformed.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin in- (not) + corrigere (to correct). Ultimately from the Indo-European reg- (to move in a straight line, lead, or rule), which also gave us regime, direct, rectangle, erect, rectum, alert, source, surge, recto, regular, abrogate, arrogate, prorogue, interregnum, regent, and supererogatory. Earliest documented use: 1340.
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INCORRIGBIBLE - a bible incorrigible
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