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KOUR --to hide in fear.


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Originally Posted By: LukeJavan8
KOUR --to hide in fear.


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I've always liked 'cower', but I do like this better,
thanks to your always inciteful suggestions for the
inspiration.


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INTRACTABLE

PRONUNCIATION: (in-TRAK-tuh-buhl)

MEANING: adjective: Not easily handled, managed, or controlled.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin tractare (to handle), frequentative of trahere (draw). Earliest documented use: 1545.

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ENTR'ACTABLE - capable of being separated into two parts by an intermission

INTER.ACT.ABLE - and if that doesn't help we can just bury the whole show

INTRACTABILE - Sorry, but the only way you're going to get any relief is if we take out your gall bladder

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INTRATABLE – Arthur's knights keep it among themselves.

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LISSOM pr LISSIOME

PRONUNCIATION: (LIS-uhm)

MEANING: adjective: Agile; graceful.

ETYMOLOGY: Alteration of lithesome, from Old English lithe (flexible, mild) + -some (having a particular quality). Earliest documented use: 1800.

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BLISSOME - the sense of well-being that suffuses us upon contemplating a well-formed member of ones preferred gender

LASSOME - what the li'l dogie who won't run away is saying

LISTSOME - a likely consequence of taking on water, if you're a boat

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OS

PRONUNCIATION: (aws)

MEANING: noun:
1. A mouth or an orifice. [plural ora]
2. A bone. [plural ossa]

ETYMOLOGY:
For 1: From Latin os (mouth). Earliest documented use: 1859.
For 2: From Latin os (bone). Earliest documented use: 1400.

NOTES:
It also appears as an abbreviation in many fields, including
Chemistry: Os - symbol for the element osmium
Computing: OS - Operating System
Medicine: OS - left eye (from Latin oculus sinister)
Linguistics: OS - Old Saxon

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OZ:
1. a surgeon who got a TV show and started endorsing products of dubious value
2. abbreviation for "ounce"
3. magical land, site of many L. Frank Baum stories
4. vernacular for "Australia"

ON:
1. opposite of "off"
2. a debt of honor, in Japan

OB:
1. a physician who practices Obstetrics, delivering babies
2. an obligation (see ON above)

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OD – Just a little strange.

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OL not necessarily laughing


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Nice concept, Luke...

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