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HOTATORY - someplace warm where you get the urge to vacation.
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SHORTATORY - a financial strategy based on the conviction that the fortunes of the Conservatives are on the decline
AORATORY - a cherished grade in Public Speaking class (No thanks, no tea today)
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FORTATORY - a place where the US Army hang out and wait for Indians to attack.
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formicate
PRONUNCIATION: (FOR-mi-kayt)
MEANING: verb intr.: 1. To crawl like ants. 2. To swarm with ants.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin formicare (to crawl like ants), from formica (ant). Earliest documented use: 1854.
USAGE: "Again, again, again, until you reach the inevitable conclusion of sky-rises, nuclear submarines, orbiting satellites, and Homo sapiens formicating the Earth." Laird Barron; Shiva, Open Your Eye; Fantasy & Science Fiction (Cornwall, Connecticut); Sep 2001.
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FORMIDATE: - a new website for meeting a new flame.
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FORMICATER - a person with perverted formical interests e.g. E.O. WILSON
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FORMIHATE - 1040
FORMICASTE - the Buggers (see Ender's Game and its sequels and prequels)
FORMICARE - a new product to clean your kitchen counters
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DORMICATE - to stash forbidden objects in the college dorm. Examples: beer and chicks, chicks and beer, beer and sheep, etc.
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WORMICATE - to squirm like worms
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assonance
PRONUNCIATION: (AS-uh-nuhns)
MEANING: noun: The use of words with same or similar vowel sounds but with different end consonants. Example: The o sounds in Wordsworth's "A host, of golden daffodils."
ETYMOLOGY: Via French, from Latin ad- (to) + sonare (to sound), from sonus (sound). Ultimately from the Indo-European root swen- (to sound), which also gave us sound, sonic, sonnet, sonata, and unison. Earliest documented use: 1728.
USAGE: "The passage offers many beauties: the nearly incantatory repetition, the assonance (define and confine, streets and treat, space and faces), the homophones (rains and reins -- but not reigns?), the pun (no sign of motorway)." Kevin Dettmar; Less Is Morrissey; The Chronicle of Higher Education (Washington, DC); Dec 9, 2013.
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ASSONUANCE ASS uh noo on(t)s
1) any word that suggests another meaning (usually vulgar) 2) the use of the word "assonance" in polite society when followed by a giggle.
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