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REDROOF - I like that colour. It goes with my bloodshot eyes from watching the World Cup!!
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PREPROOF - what it takes to convict you of preprehension (see 5/26/14, above)
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PREPROOF - what it takes to convict you of preprehension (see 5/26/14, above)
Right on, Mister Wolfdoc, the term PREPROOF is a logical oxymoron; a contrived semantic construction used despairingly by those who practice pseudo science so as to preclude logical thought. You know, like the Flat Earthers and Global Warmists. 
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votary
PRONUNCIATION:
(VOH-tuh-ree)
MEANING:
noun: 1. One who is devoted to an activity, person, institution, etc.
noun: 2. One who has taken vows to a religion, such as a monk or nun.
adjective: Bound by a vow or relating to a vow.
ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin votum (vow), from vovere (to vow), which also gave us vow, vote, and devote. Earliest documented use: 1546.
USAGE:
"The issue has been a matter of debate with strong votaries on both sides."
Road to Basel; Financial Express (New Delhi, India); May 4, 2012.
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LOTARY - a game of chance where even the word is dodgy.
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VOLTARY noun
1) Voltaire's private library
2) electric chair
3) eclectic chair
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VOBARY - Spoonerized middle-class French woman with doomed upper-class aspirations, from a novel by Flaubert
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YOTARY - a place where you can park your yacht in silence.
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VOTARDY - to stagger out of the bar after the polls are closed
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