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STRIDULOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (STRIJ-uh-luhs)
MEANING: adjective: 1. Having or making a harsh grating sound. 2. Shrill or grating.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin stridere (to make a harsh sound). Earliest documented use: 1611. _____________________________
STRADULOUS - sounding ike an old violin
ASTRIDULOUS - one leg on one side, one leg on the other
'STRIADULOUS - it sounds like a I-III-V chord
(Compare with the word for June 4, 2015. Something's not really cricket here!
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TORPID
PRONUNCIATION: (TOR-pid)
MEANING: adjective: 1. Sluggish or inactive. 2. Apathetic. 3. Dormant, as when hibernating.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin torpidus (numb), from torpere (to be stiff or numb). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ster- (stiff), which also gave us starch, stare, stork, starve, cholesterol, and torpedo. Earliest documented use: 1613.
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PORPID - dolphin-like
TORNID - my driver's license is torn up
TOROID - horny, like a bull (What, you were expecting something doughnut-shaped?)
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FASTUOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (FAS-choo-uhs)
MEANING: adjective: 1. Haughty; arrogant. 2. Pretentious.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin fastuosus, from fastus (arrogance). Earliest documented use: 1638. ________________________________
FISTUOUS - given to hitting, with minimal provocation
FASTULOUS - tends to protest by going on a hunger strike
FASTUOUT - our bouncer is very efficient here
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IMPERTINENT
PRONUNCIATION: (im-PURT-nuhnt)
MEANING: adjective: 1. Presumptuous or rude. 2. Irrelevant.
ETYMOLOGY: From in- (not) + pertinere (to pertain), from per- (through) + tenere (to hold). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ten- (to stretch), which also gave us tense, tenet, tendon, tent, tenor, tender, pretend, extend, tenure, tetanus, hypotenuse, tenuous, tenable, extenuate, distend, detente, countenance, and abstentious. Earliest documented use: 1380.
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IMPERATINENT - the Emperor's realm fills this entire land mass
IMBERTINENT - Hi, my name is Bertinent !
IMPEXTINENT - that naughty little critter used to rent an apartment in the building I own
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BIBULOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (BIB-yuh-luhs)
MEANING: adjective: 1. Excessively fond of drinking. 2. Highly absorbent.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin bibere (to drink). Ultimately from the Indo-European root poi- (to drink), which also gave us potion, poison, potable, beverage, and Sanskrit paatram (pot). Earliest documented use: 1676. ________________________
BIMBULOUS - airheaded
BIBBULOUS - like lettuce
BIBLOUS - Scriptural
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GRAMARYE
PRONUNCIATION: (GRAM-uh-ree)
MEANING: noun: Occult learning; magic.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French gramaire (grammar, book of magic), from Greek gramma (letter). Ultimately from the Indo-European root gerbh- (to scratch), which also gave us crab, crayfish, carve, crawl, grammar, program, graphite, glamor, anagram, paraph, and graffiti. Earliest documented use: 1320.
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GRAMAREYE - what it takes to be a good editor and proofreader
GRAMPARYE - the ancestor of all blended whiskey
GAMARYE - a very short, high-energy wave studied by Australian physicists
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QUACKSALVER
PRONUNCIATION: (KWAK-sal-vuhr)
MEANING: noun: A quack: one pretending to have skills or knowledge, especially in medicine.
ETYMOLOGY: From obsolete Dutch (now kwakzalver), from quack (boast) + salve (ointment). Earliest documented use: 1579. ____________________________
QUARKSALVER - what to serve your sub-atomic - nay, sub-nuclear - particles on
QUACKSALTER - what you use to make Pickled Duck
QUACKSAVER - what you suck on when you hanker after a toroidal fowl-flavored hard candy
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VIRIDITY
PRONUNCIATION: (vi-RID-i-tee)
MEANING: noun: 1. The quality or state of being green. 2. Youthful innocence.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin viridis (green). Earliest documented use: 1430. ___________________________
VIRGIDITY - the maiden has a cold
VIXIDITY - foxiness
VIRIDITE - 1. a native or Viridia; 2. a copper-containing ore; it shows green sparkles in bright light
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QUICKSALVER BandAid on a Cancer
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