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BELIE
PRONUNCIATION: (bi-LY)
MEANING: verb tr.: 1. To give a false impression: misrepresent. 2. To show to be false: contradict
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English beleogan (to deceive by lying). Earliest documented use: before 1000.
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BELIE - the second-best place to leave your golf ball for you next shot
BELITE - 1. where you go Loo, all on a Saturday night 2. If you're trying to be serious, don't this
EBELIE - a Brother who sang "Bye, Bye, Love"
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DESCRY
PRONUNCIATION: (di-SKRY)
MEANING: verb tr.: 1. To catch sight of. 2. To discover or detect.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French descrier (to cry out), from crier (to cry), from Latin critare, from quiritare (to cry out). Earliest documented use: before 1400. A shortening of the word descry resulted in scry. ________________________
DECRY - to take out the lachrymal glands
DESCARY - to make less frightful
DESPRY - 1. to render no longer lithe or limber 2. to remove the shortening
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DEscry- nobody saw anything
Despry- elixer of youth with the age old adage, "You're old only when you forget you're young," on the label
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COSSET
PRONUNCIATION: (KOS-et)
MEANING: verb tr.: To pamper. noun: A pet; a spoiled child.
ETYMOLOGY: Of uncertain origin, probably from Old English cotsaeta (cot sitter or cot dweller). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sed- (to sit), which is also the source of sit, chair, saddle, assess, sediment, soot, cathedral, tetrahedron, sessile, surcease, assiduous, and eyas. Earliest documented use: 1579 ______________________________
COSHET - a small blackjack (for knocking out midgets)
COWSET - winning six games of bovine tennis
FOSSET - source of running water
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Coset- is a fictional character in the movie adaptation of Les Miserables, directed by Baz Luhrmann Warning:( https://youtu.be/kYa6G-LH1eE ) Closset- a private, small room for fifi and fido's socks.
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Bigleaguer- comedy team Abbott and Costello
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BELEAGUER
PRONUNCIATION: (bi-LEE-guhr)
MEANING: verb tr.: 1. To surround with troops. 2. To beset with difficulties.
ETYMOLOGY: From Dutch belegeren (to camp around), from be- (around) + leger (camp). Ultimately from the Indo-European root legh- (to lie or lay), which also gave us lie, lay, lair, fellow, and laager. Earliest documented use: 1589. ____________________________
B LEAGUER - not quite good enough for the majors
BENE AGUER - a disease that afflicts its victims with fevers and aches that paradoxically are good
BELE AUER - actor Mischa's wife
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Quitxote- to stop dancing
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