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VERACIOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (vuh-RAY-shuhs)
MEANING: adjective: Truthful; honest; accurate. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin verus (true). Earliest documented use: 1677. ________________________________
OVERACIOUS - placing too much reliance of the value of aces, in poker
RVERACIOUS - My Winnebago can go faster than yours!
TVERACIOUS - given to binge-watching
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DOUGHTYPRONUNCIATION: (DAU-tee) MEANING: adjective: Brave; courageous; determined. ETYMOLOGY: From Old English dohtig (worthy). Earliest documented use: 1030. ______________________________ DOUGHTV - cable service when there's no competition NOUGATY - like a confection made with sugar or honey, roasted nuts, whipped egg whites, and sometimes chopped candied fruit DOUGHTS - what Mairzy and Doughzy (although Little Lamzy Divey)
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GAPESEED
PRONUNCIATION: (GAYP-seed)
MEANING: noun: 1. One who stares especially with an open mouth. 2. Something that is an object of staring: anything unusual.
ETYMOLOGY: From gape + seed, from Old Norse gapa (to open the mouth, stare) + Old English saed (seed). Earliest documented use: 1598.
NOTES: The idiom “to sow gapeseed” means to gape at something (say, a fair) instead of doing some useful work (say, sowing wheat). This, and other idioms, hint at our agrarian roots: -to sow wild oats -to sow the seeds (of something) -as you sow, so shall you reap, etc.
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GA-PESTED - afflicted with peach-tree borer
GAPESEYED - bowed so as to display cleavage
AGAPESEED - the source of Greek love
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WINDROW
PRONUNCIATION: (WIND-ro)
MEANING: noun: 1. A row of raked hay laid to dry in the wind before being baled. 2. A row of leaves, dust, snow, or other material swept together. verb tr.: To arrange in a windrow.
ETYMOLOGY: From wind + row, from Old English row + raew. Earliest documented use: 1523. _________________________________
WINEROW - a grape arbor
WINGROW - 1) reinvest the dividends in a good investment; 2) a line of planes on an aircraft carrier
WINDRAW - 1) success at poker; 2) mid-March weather
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UNWONTED
PRONUNCIATION: (un-WON-tid)
MEANING: adjective: Unusual or unaccustomed.
ETYMOLOGY: From un- + Middle English woned, wont (accustomed), past participle of wonen (to be used to, to dwell). Ultimately from the Indo-European root wen- (to desire or to strive for), which is also the source of wish, win, Venus, overweening, venerate, venison, and banyan, venial, and ween. Earliest documented use: 1553. _______________________________
UNWOTTED - not understood
FUNWONTED - having the usual good time
UNDONTED - repealed, made legal
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ANGOR
PRONUNCIATION: (ANG-guhr)
MEANING: noun: Extreme anguish or mental distress.
ETYMOLOGY: If you’ve ever been so angry, or so anguished, that you felt choked you’ve personally experienced the origin of this term. It comes from Latin angor (strangling, suffocation, mental distress), from angere (to squeeze). Ultimately from the Indo-European root angh- (tight, suffocating, painful), which also gave us anger, anguish, anxious, angst, angina, and hangnail. Earliest documented use: 1440. _______________________
ANYGOR - whatever injury caused by a bull
ANXOR - a stress-inducer
ANGER - where a Cockney angs is at
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REFECT
PRONUNCIATION: (ri-FEKT)
MEANING: verb tr.: To refresh with food or drink.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin reficere (to renew or restore), from re- (back) + facere (to make). Earliest documented use: 1488.
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REFACT - to restate an inconvenient truth so as to bolster an invalid argument
REFICT - to make up a new story; see also REFACT
REFECK - to reconstruct a bad public relations image, in order to regain the appearance of responsibility and reliability (compare FECKLESS)
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