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NIMBOD- contortionist, gymnast


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VIA DOLOROSA

PRONUNCIATION: (VY/VEE-uh dol-uh-RO-suh)

MEANING: noun: A distressing journey or experience.

ETYMOLOGY: After the route believed to have been taken by Jesus on his way to Calvary. From Latin via dolorosa (painful path), from via (path) + dolor (pain). Earliest documented use: 1878.

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VIAND OLOROSA - spoiled meat (you can tell because it smells)

VIA DONOROSA - Sir Orosa lives on this street

VIDOLO ROSA - a sweet red onion, not sharp at all, originally sold only in the Vidolo Farmers' Market in Toombs County, Georgia, USA (See here - it's not even Wikipedia!)

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Ta! I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream.
cup or cone?

Via dolo rosa a new flavor at Salt and Straw. Tastes like....chicken. lol.

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TIA DOLOROSA

aunt on mi madre's side.


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VLAD OLOROSA - Also known as Vlad the Inhaler.

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a challenge to symbicort?


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SCAPEGOAT

PRONUNCIATION: (SKAYP-goht)

MEANING:
noun: One blamed for another’s wrongdoing.
verb tr.: To blame someone for another’s wrongdoing.

ETYMOLOGY: As sometimes happens with ancient books, this term arose as a misreading of a word as Hebrew ’ez ’ozel (goat that departs) for what was, in fact, the proper noun Azazel, apparently a name for a demon. The explanation given in Leviticus 16:8 is that one casts one’s sins on a goat and lets it escape into the wilderness. Earliest documented use: 1530.

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SCAREGOAT - a mannikin meant to frighten other animals out of the vegetable patch

SCAPEMOAT - a hybrid protective feature surrounding a castle, meant to help the inhabitants swim away

SCAPEGOAL - Pete Carroll, at least this week

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SCAPEBOAT – A faster, drier means of using scapemoat.

SCAPEGOA – The vista of India's smallest state.

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SCAPEGOAD -urging escape.

Batman fought Azazel a number of times.


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GETHSEMANE

PRONUNCIATION: (geth-SEM-uh-nee)

MEANING: noun: An instance or a place of suffering.

ETYMOLOGY: In the New Testament, Gethsemane was a garden near the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, and the scene of Jesus’s agony and betrayal. Via Latin and Greek from Aramaic gat samne (oil press). Earliest documented use: 1901.

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GETS E-MANE - grows a lot of electronic hair on the head and neck

METH SEMANE - Amphetamine Week in Paris

GET HISEMANE - be awarded the trophy for "Best College Football player for the Year"

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