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Let's let this thread load a little faster, by starting Mensopause IV (continued from here) ___________________________________ REPUDIATEPRONUNCIATION: (ri-PYOO-dee-ayt) MEANING: verb tr.: To reject, refuse, or disown. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin repudiare (to divorce, reject), from repudium (divorce). Earliest documented use: 1534. _____________________________________ RYEPUDIATE - This whiskey isn't worth the glass it's served in. RECUDIATE - Oh, and about that clump of grass I've been chewing on for the last half hour... PREPUDIATE - My mind is made up, don't confuse me with facts !
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BLANDISHMENT
PRONUNCIATION: (BLAN-dish-muhnt)
MEANING: noun: Something (action, speech, etc.) designed to flatter, coax, or influence.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin blandiri (to flatter). Ultimately from the Indo-European root mel- (soft), which also gave us bland, melt, smelt, malt, mild, mulch, mollify, mollusk, emollient, enamel, smalto, and schmaltz. Earliest documented use: 1591.
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BYLANDISHMENT - going by caravan, rather than by boat
BLONDISHMENT - lightening your hair
BLANDDISHMENT - the art of preparing tasteless food
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IGNOMINIOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (ig-nuh-MIN-ee-uhs)
MEANING: adjective: Deserving or causing disgrace or shame.
ETYMOLOGY: Via French, from Latin ignominia, from ig- (not) + nomen (name). Ultimately from the Indo-European root no-men- (name) which also gave us name, anonymous, noun, synonym, eponym, renown, nominate, misnomer, and moniker. Earliest documented use: 1530.
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IGNOMANIOUS - compulsively proclaiming an all-pervading lack of knowledge
INNOMINIOUS - pertaining to a Disgraceful Act That Shall Not Be Named
PIGNOMINIOUS - (Sorry, I'm not going to get involved in a political discussion)
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signominious- cringe worthy persistence of strange memory "Freedom of any kind is the worst for creativity" 
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FRACTIOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (FRAK-shuhs)
MEANING: adjective: 1. Irritable; cranky. 2. Unruly.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin fractus, past participle of frangere (to break). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bhreg- (to break), which also gave us break, breach, fraction, and fragile. Earliest documented use: 1725.
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FURACTIOUS - belligerently working for PETA
PRACTIOUS - getting ready for Carnegie Hall
FRANCTIOUS - Sinatra is worried
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Tractious-record breaking, best selling, running shoes.
Thoughts out to my daughter and her 5k today!
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How'd the 5K go? _____________________________ SENESCENCEPRONUNCIATION: (suh-NES-uhns) MEANING: noun: The process or the state of growing old. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin senescere (to grow old), from senex (old). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sen- (old), which is also the ancestor of senior, senate, senile, Spanish seņor, sir, sire, and surly (which is an alteration of sirly, as in sir-ly). Earliest documented use: 1695. ___________________________________ OENESCENCE - the soul of wine SENESCIENCE - expertise in geriatrics SENSCENCE - the " curiously strong mint" long before Altoids were invented...
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She got first in age/women and fifth overall! 
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TROMOMETER
PRONUNCIATION: (tro-MOM-i-tuhr)
MEANING: noun: An instrument for detecting or measuring faint tremors caused by an earthquake.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek tromos (trembling). Earliest documented use: 1878.
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TROMOMETIER - Shaker par excellence
TOROMOMETER - the number of your cows who have given birth to bulls
TROMBOMETER - how they found out exactly how many led the Big Parade
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Mappenchance-plotting a course and taking a chance, everyday.
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HAPPENCHANCE
PRONUNCIATION: (HAP-uhn-chans)
MEANING:
noun: A chance occurrence.
adjective: Resulting from chance.
ETYMOLOGY: Alteration of happenstance, a blend of happening + circumstance. Earliest documented use: 1847.
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HOPPENCHANCE - What the frog took when he crossed the road
HAPPENCHANGE - I just found a quarter and a dime on the sidewalk
HA'PENCHANCE - Get yer raffle tickets here! Two for a penny!
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NATANT
PRONUNCIATION: NAYT-nt
MEANING: adjective: Swimming or floating.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin natare (to swim). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sna- (to swim or flow), which also gave us Sanskrit snan (bath). Earliest documented use: 1460.
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NATACT - a kind of flea circus
NATHANT - turning into a Coney Island hot dog
NEATANT - my mother's sister has OCD
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The most common trombometer reading is "Too loud; too many."
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SUCCUS
PRONUNCIATION: (SUHK-uhs)
MEANING: noun: Juice; fluid.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin succus (juice). Earliest documented use: 1771.
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YUCCUS - a single plant of the agave family, native to the warmer regions of America (more commonly referred to by its plural yucca)
SUCCES - almost-but-not-quite-complet achievement of a goal
SUNCUS - what the U-boat did to my destroyer
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Fuccus-many happy returns and much good fortune
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NITTY-GRITTY
PRONUNCIATION: (NIT-ee GRIT-ee)
MEANING: noun: The essential, practical, or most important details.
ETYMOLOGY: Origin unknown. Earliest documented use: 1940.
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NITTY-GRINTY - Ron Weasley is making baby-booties
WITTY-GRITTY - a rough sense of humor
NUTTY-GRITTY - There's sand in my Peanut Brittle !
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Pitty-gritty - a horrible, toe-curling, leg cramp caused by dehydration and then you die
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Blug- a contraction of big and lug, to haul ass long distances. Ex, It's the cops, let's Blug out of here!
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BLAG
PRONUNCIATION: (blag)
MEANING: verb tr.: To obtain something by guile; to cheat, rob, snatch, steal, scam, or beg.
noun: A robbery, con, or theft.
ETYMOLOGY: Origin unknown. Earliest documented use: 1934.
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BULAG - 1. Russian prison greeted with disfavor by audience; 2. a resident therein is not well-liked
BLA - dull on Twitter (saved a whole keystroke!)
BLAX - the second terminal at Los Angeles Airport
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FETID
PRONUNCIATION: (FET-tid, FEE-TID)
MEANING: adjective: Having a strong unpleasant odor.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin fetere (to stink). Earliest documented use: 1599.
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FATID - having strong sexual urges
FEATID - identify the heroic accomplishment
FETAD - covered with goat cheese
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Feetid- recognizable smell of a person's feet
Memory from childhood of me peaking over the end of the couch, investigating my father's smelly feet.
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Growess- a lady-in-waiting to the Faerie Queen. Her main duty, and honor, cultivating the finest herbs and teas.
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PROWESS
PRONUNCIATION: (PROU-is)
MEANING: noun: Superior skill, ability, strength, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From Middle French prou (valiant), from Old English prud. Earliest documented use: 1300.
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PRO-LESS - in favor of ding more with fewer resources
PROW-LESS - like the Andrea Doria after her encounter with Stockholm
PROWL-ESS - a hunting female, or "cougar"
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CONDIGN
PRONUNCIATION: (kuhn-DYN)
MEANING: adjective: Well-deserved, appropriate.
ETYMOLOGY: From Middle English condigne, from Anglo French, from Latin condignus, from com- (completely) + dignus (worthy). Ultimately from Indo-European root dek- (to take, accept), which is the ancestor of other words such as dignity, discipline, doctor, decorate, docile, and deign. Earliest documented use: 1413.
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CONSIGN - the convicted forger does it again
CONDIG - attempted escape ahead
CONDIN - the sound of a prison riot
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Inmenuous- It's what's for dinner at a Tolkien themed restaurant called Middle Earth. The Hobbit has 7 courses and the Orc has but one, on a good day.
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INGENUOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (in-JEN-yoo-uhs)
MEANING: adjective: Guileless; innocent; frank; naive.
ETYMOLOGY: The word literally means free-born. The earlier meaning of the word was noble or honorable as a free-born or native person was supposed to be. Over time the word shifted to its current meaning. From Latin ingenuus (native, free-born), from in- (into) + gignere (to beget). Earliest documented use: 1598. A related word is ingenue.
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INGENUOUT - Get that sweet innocent little thing OFF my movie lot!
INTENUOUS - barely holding on
KINGENUOUS - monarch of the Enuous tribe
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pecious- the sound made when one pees in the woods.
Speciout- a variant of peace out
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SPECIOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (SPEE-shuhs)
MEANING: adjective: Superficially true, but actually wrong.
ETYMOLOGY: Originally, the word meant beautiful or pleasing to the sight. Over the centuries the meaning shifted to describe something that is deceptively appealing. The word is from Latin speciosus (fair, beautiful), from specere (to look). Ultimately from the Indo-European root spek- (to observe), which also gave us speculum, speciesism, soupcon, prospicient, perspicuous, omphaloskepsis, and conspectus. Earliest documented use: 1400.
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SPECKOUS - teeny-weeny
SPECIOU - the dimensions of the Promissory Note
'SPICIOUS - worried that you have a 'terior motive
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Purblond- a "dumb blond" joke book.
Burblind- a sauce made with margarine
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PURBLIND
PRONUNCIATION: (PUHR-blynd)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Partially blind.
2. Lacking in understanding, insight, or vision.
ETYMOLOGY: From pure + blind, meaning completely blind. Over time, the sense shifted to partially blind. Earliest documented use: 1300.
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PUB BLIND - I don't care which bar I patronize, as long as they don't run out
FUR BLIND - I can't see working for PETA
PUR BLAND - the cat is boring, but contented...
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FEISTY
PRONUNCIATION: (FY-stee)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Spirited; full of courage, spunk, or energy.
2. Touchy, irritable, or ill-tempered.
ETYMOLOGY: From feist, variant of obsolete fist, short for fisting cur, a contemptuous term for a dog, from fist, from Middle English fisten (to break wind). The word fizzle is ultimately derived from the same source. Earliest documented use: 1896.
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FISTY - truculent, pugnacious
FERSTY - Gimme a drink of water !
FEISTA - a dyslexic celebration in Tijuana
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OFFICIOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (o-FISH-uhs)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Excessively eager in offering unwanted or unneeded advice or help.
2. Acting in pompous or domineering manner, especially in trivial matters.
ETYMOLOGY: Earlier, someone officious was dutiful or helpful. Over time, the word acquired a negative sense. From Latin officiosus (dutiful), from officium (service). Earliest documented use: 1487.
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BOFFICIOUS - superlative, even for Hollywood
OFDICIOUS - pertaining to fine foods
OFFICIOUT - the automatic summer-vacation email reply message
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Shugger-mugger - one not allowed to take sweet syrup to make one's voice more pleasant.
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HUGGER-MUGGERPRONUNCIATION: (HUHG-uhr MUHG-uhr) MEANING: noun: 1. Confusion. 2. Secrecy. adjective: 1. Confused. 2. Secret. verb tr., intr.: To keep secret or act in a secretive manner. adverb: 1. Secretly. 2. Confusingly. ETYMOLOGY: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps from reduplication of Middle English mokeren (to hoard or conceal). Earliest documented use: 1529. _______________________________________________ HUGGER-MUGGLER - what the Malfoys objected to so fervently CHUGGER-MUGGER - someone who goes through Toby Mugs of ale one after another HUNGER-MUGGER - only a tiny fraction of Inner-City crime is done by this kind of perp __________________________________ PS. For a really good read, enjoy Hugger-Mugger in the Louvre (if the Seine ever subsides) by Elliott Paul. (See here.)
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ARGLE-BARGLE
PRONUNCIATION: (AHR-guhl BAHR-guhl)
MEANING: noun: 1. A vigorous discussion or noisy dispute. 2. Nonsense.
ETYMOLOGY: From reduplication of argle, alteration of argue. Earliest documented use: 1872.
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ARGYLE-BARGLE - got these socks at a really great price!
ANGLE-BANGLE - square bracelets
ARGLE-BURGLE - choke on a stolen Big Mac
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Hoisty-toisty- hi hi hi Das Jodeln das macht Spaß der Weihnachtsmann
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HOITY-TOITYPRONUNCIATION: (HOI-tee TOI-tee) MEANING: adjective: Haughty; pretentious; huffy. ETYMOLOGY: From reduplication of hoit (to romp). Earliest documented use: 1668. _____________________________________ HOITY-TOITY - language spoken by Cecil Bill on Kukla, Fran, and Ollie (Kukla was the only one who could understand it) HOSTY-TOSTY - giving your friends a warm welcome HOITY-TORTY - grounds for action in Brooklyn Children's Court
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Hoisty-toisty- hi hi hi Das Jodeln das macht Spaß der Weihnachtsmann What was that again about Frosty the Snowman?
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TUSSIE-MUSSIE
PRONUNCIATION: (TUS-ee-MUS-ee)
MEANING: noun: A small bouquet of flowers. Also known as a posy or a nosegay.
ETYMOLOGY: Probably a reduplication of tussy (a small bunch of flowers). Earliest documented use: 1440.
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TUSSLE-MUSSLE - what you strengthen with your Kegel exercises
THUSSIE-MUSSIE - therefore it's imperative not to miss this flick
TUSHIE-MUSSIE - baby needs a new diaper
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Hussie-mussie - what I look like when I dress up for church
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HURLY-BURLY
PRONUNCIATION: (HUHR-lee BUHR-lee)
MEANING: noun: Disorder; confusion; commotion; uproar.
adjective: Characterized by disorder, confusion, commotion, uproar, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: A reduplication of hurling, from hurl (to toss). Earliest documented use: 1440.
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HARLY-BURLY - strapping young motorcyclist
HURLY-CURLY - throw ringlets
HOURLY-BURLY - Variety show starts every 60 minutes! Girls!
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Surly-burly -a beer made with witches worts
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POECILONYM
PRONUNCIATION: (PEE-sil-uh-nim)
MEANING: noun: A synonym.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek poikilos (various) + -onym (name). Earliest documented use: 1890.
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PORCILONYM - a pig by any other name
POETILONYM - not only has the same meaning, but rhymes, too
POECILONOM - an internet troll / bully / "sock puppet" who hides his (or her) unpleasantness behind many different aliases
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P.S. "Poikilocytosis" is the standard word in medicine to describe blood cells as being of various shapes.
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Hephalism- belief in heffalumps, but not woozles
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Kudos to Heffalumps !
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NEPHALISM
PRONUNCIATION: (NEE-fuh-liz-uhm)
MEANING: noun: Teetotalism: abstinence from alcohol.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek nephalios (sober). Earliest documented use: 1860.
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NEPHELISM - the teachings of turbidity
CEPHALISM - it's all in your head
NEPALISM - Katmandu is the greatest !
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TACHYPHYLAXIS
PRONUNCIATION: (tak-uh-fi-LAK-sis)
MEANING: noun: Mithridatism: Successively decreased response to a drug or a toxin over time.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek tachy- (swift) + phylaxis (protection). Earliest documented use: 1911.
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STACHYPHYLAXIS - takes longer and longer to accumulate chips at the poker table
PACHYPHYLAXIS - and the Elephant plants aren't growing very fast now, either
TACHYPHYTAXIS - fast plants that'll take you where you want to go, for a fee
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Bachyphylaxis- general complacency when baroque, with inherent motivic passions
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NULLIFIDIAN
PRONUNCIATION: (nuhl-uh-FID-ee-uhn)
MEANING: noun: An atheist: a person who has no religious faith or belief in god(s).
adjective: Having no faith or belief.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin nullus (no) + fides (faith). Earliest documented use: 1564.
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NULLIFIEDIAN - the Democrat's view of the current Congress: undoes everything
NULLIFIDEAN - against the world governing body for chess (FIDE)
NULLIFINDIAN - the Pakistani worldview (NULL, IF INDIAN)
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MARROWSKY
PRONUNCIATION: (MUH-rau-ski)
MEANING: noun: Spoonerism: The transposition of (usually) the initial sounds of words producing a humorous result.
For example, Runny Babbit instead of Bunny Rabbit.
ETYMOLOGY: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps from the name of a Polish count who was prone to this phenomenon. Earliest documented use: 1863.
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MARROWSKA - Mrs Spooner
MARROWSKEY - what you use to enter The Marrows when they lock it
MORROWSKY - Sailors' Delight, if it's red
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VERMEIL
PRONUNCIATION: (VUHR-mil, -mayl)
MEANING: noun: 1. Vermilion color: bright orange-red. 2. Metal, such as silver, bronze, or copper that has been gilded.
adjective: Bright red in color.
ETYMOLOGY: The word is coined after insects (of genus Kermes) that are used to make red dye. From Latin vermiculus (little worm, kermes), diminutive of vermis (worm). Ultimately from Indo-European root wer- (to turn or bend), which also gave us wring, weird, writhe, worth, revert, universe, conversazione, divers, malversation, prosaic, versal, verso, and wroth. Earliest documented use: 1400
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VERMEIN - rat meat with Chinese vegetables and noodles
OVERMEIL - where many a seduction takes place
VERMEIR - a Dutch painter of interior scenes of middle-class life, who went on to become Prime Minister of Israel
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TEAL
PRONUNCIATION: (teel)
MEANING: noun: 1. Any of the various species of small dabbling ducks. 2. Greenish blue color.
adjective: Of greenish blue color.
ETYMOLOGY: From Middle English tele. The color is named after the patches of this shade on the teal. Earliest documented use: 1314.
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TERL - hard work in Brooklyn
TU-AL - second-person-singular-familiar pronoun in Southern France
TEAU - a digit on your boyfriend's foot
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PONCEAU
PRONUNCIATION: (pon-SO)
MEANING: noun: A bright red color.
adjective: Of bright red color.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old French pouncel (poppy), diminutive of paon (peacock), from Latin pavo (peacock). Peacocks are not red, so why this word after a peacock? The poppy flower got this name because its vivid red color was compared to the bright colors of a peacock. A related word is pavonine. Earliest documented use: 1774.
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SPONCEAU - the company that pays the bill for your TV program ("...and now, a word from our SPONCEAU...")
PONTEAU - a bridge over troubled waters (French)
PONCHEAU - a Villa in Chihuahua Province of northern Mexico
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Might PONCHEAU have been the partner of CISCHEAU in the old Duncan Renaldo films?
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Might PONCHEAU have been the partner of CISCHEAU in the old Duncan Renaldo films? That was PANCHEAU.  (As was Villa, BTW.) This PONCHEAU used to keep us dry when it rained at camp...
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TAUPE
PRONUNCIATION: (toap, rhymes with rope)
MEANING: noun: A brownish gray, similar to the color of moleskin.
adjective: Of a brownish gray color.
ETYMOLOGY: From French taupe (mole), from Latin talpa (mole). Earliest documented use: 1911.
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TAURE- 1. ripped; 2. short for a French bull
UTAUPE - a very laid-back ideal society
TWUPE - a theater company led by a yellow canary with a speech impediment
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SEPIA
PRONUNCIATION: (SEE-pee-uh)
MEANING: noun: 1. A reddish brown color. 2. A brown pigment originally made from the cuttlefish ink. 3. A drawing made with this pigment. 4. A monochrome photograph in this color.
adjective: Of a reddish-brown color.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin sepia (cuttlefish), from Greek sepia (cuttlefish). Earliest documented use: 1569.
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SLEPIA - what the hypnotist tells you you are getting
SEMPIA - Marine Corps mascot. (Probably a dog, I think)
SE3PIA - a female multilingual droid
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KNAVERY
PRONUNCIATION: (NAY-vuh-ree, NAYV-ree)
MEANING: noun: Dishonest dealing or an instance of this.
ETYMOLOGY: From knave, from Old English cnafa (boy, servant). Earliest documented use: 1528.
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NAVERY - the part of the ritual that takes place in the main central part of the church
KNIVERY - the art of using sharpened blades
KONAVERY - extreme coffee from Hawaii, grown on the slopes of Mauna Loa
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WROTH
PRONUNCIATION: (roth)
MEANING: adjective: Extremely angry.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English wrath. Ultimately from Indo-European root wer- (to turn or bend), which is also the progenitor of words such as wring, weird, writhe, worth, revert, and universe. Earliest documented use: 893.
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EROTH - my retirement account is completely online
OWROTH - ...and it lost a lot of its value yesterday :-(
WROT - past tense of WRIT
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KNAR
PRONUNCIATION: (nahr)
MEANING:
noun: A knot on a tree or in wood.
ETYMOLOGY: From Middle English knarre. Earliest documented use: 1250.
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EKNAR - capital city of the fictitious land of Fthon
KNEAR - not kdistant; opposite of KFAR
KNER - a short person genuflecting
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Wrisk- La Conquęte du Monde, a strategy game with a wrinkle.
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WRICK
PRONUNCIATION: (rik)
MEANING: verb tr., intr.: To sprain or wrench.
noun: Sprain.
ETYMOLOGY: From Middle Low German wricken (to sprain). Earliest documented use: 1305.
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OWRICK - that guy from Casablanca hurt me !
WROCK - past tense of "wreck"
WOICK - gainful employment in Brooklyn
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GNOMIC
PRONUNCIATION:
(NO-mik)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Relating to a gnome (an aphorism or a pithy saying).
2. Puzzling, ambiguous, or incomprehensible yet seemingly profound.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek gnome (judgment, opinion), from gignoskein (to know). Ultimately from the Indo-European root gno- (to know), which also gave us knowledge, prognosis, ignore, narrate, normal, and gnomon. Earliest documented use: 1815.
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NOMIC - They can't hear me, how do I turn this thing on? (pron. "no-mike")
MNOMIC - memorable
GONOMIC - who'd'a thunk it?
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...and speaking of gnomes, have you come across this ?
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The week is over, so I guess we're done with the Silent Letters theme.
Pity. I was waiting for the word to be PSITTICOSIS, also known as Parrot Fever.
Then we could have the letter changed be Greek PSI, and make
PSI --> MU: MUTTICOSIS = Mixed-Breed-Dog Fever, or
PSI --> OMEGA: OMEGATTICOSIS = "I can't even imagine such a terrible plague," or...
Opportunity squandered. Rats.
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Ginomic- a card game where the rummy is silent
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Brobative- brother baiting
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PROBATIVE
PRONUNCIATION: (PRO-buh-tiv, PROB-uh-)
MEANING: adjective: Serving to test something or providing a proof.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin probare (to test or prove), from probus (upright, good). Ultimately from the Indo-European root per- (forward), which also gave us paramount, prime, proton, prow, German Frau (woman), and Hindi purana (old). Earliest documented use: 1453.
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PROM-BAT-IVE - they're going to use this on the pinata at the Senior dance !
PRO-BATH-IVE - ...and don't you forget to wash behind your ears, either
POO-BA-TIVE - given to pompous and grandiose statements about yourself
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Cobbery- corny themed open mic night
Sobbery- crocodile tear factory
Nobbery- easy to turn door faktory
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JOBBERY
PRONUNCIATION: (JOB-uh-ree)
MEANING: noun: The use of a public office for private gain.
ETYMOLOGY: From jobber (wholesaler; one who does odd jobs), from job, of unknown origin. Earliest documented use: 1769.
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JOBERY - faithful victimness
JOBEERY - Wallace's little sister
JOBBERYL - No. 2 on the jeweler's To-do list, right after Job Amethyst and before Job Citrine
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OSTENSIBLE
PRONUNCIATION: ah-STEN-suh-buhl)
MEANING: adjective: Appearing as such; supposed.
ETYMOLOGY: From French ostensible, from Latin ostendere (to show, stretch out), from ob- (in front of) + tendere (to stretch). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ten- (to stretch), which also gave us tense, tenet, tendon, tent, tenor, tender, pretend, extend, tenure, tetanus, hypotenuse, pertinacious, detente, countenance, distend, extenuate, tenable, tenuous, abstentious, and impertinent. Earliest documented use: 1743.
adjective: Appearing as such; supposed.
ETYMOLOGY: From French ostensible, from Latin ostendere (to show, stretch out), from ob- (in front of) + tendere (to stretch). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ten- (to stretch), which also gave us tense, tenet, tendon, tent, tenor, tender, pretend, extend, tenure, tetanus, hypotenuse, pertinacious, detente, countenance, distend, extenuate, tenable, tenuous, abstentious, and impertinent. Earliest documented use: 1743.
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OSENSIBLE - Irish pragmatism
OSTEN SABLE - a small carnivore found in the forests, flat lands and mountainous areas of east Asia.
OSTENS BIBLE - Holy Writ owned by the author of Jane Eyre
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Osensible- modern day comedy of manners written by, A Chick
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FANE
PRONUNCIATION: (fayn)
MEANING: noun: A place of worship.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin fanum (temple). Earliest documented use: 1400s.
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FANNE - a devotee of women's sports
FAUNE - a girl Bambi
NANE - Sodium Neonide; an inert salt. Doesn't dissolve, doesn't react, doesn't taste, just sits in the bottom of the water-filled beaker and waits. Sort of an anti-Rice-Krispies.
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Arble- a proposal made modest with less garble
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ARABLE
PRONUNCIATION: (AR-uh-buhl)
MEANING: adjective: Suitable for farming.
noun: Land thats suitable for farming.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin arare (to plow). Earliest documented use: 1400.
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AXABLE - no need to spare that tree, Woodman!
ARABILE - what you read in the Damascus Times
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SHERMANESQUE
PRONUNCIATION: (shur-muh-NESK)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Unequivocal, especially in refusing to run for an office.
2. Brutally thorough, especially in defeating someone.
ETYMOLOGY: After William Tecumseh Sherman, Union general in the American Civil War. Earliest documented use: 1918.
NOTES: The Union general William Tecumseh Sherman didnt mince words. When he was being considered as a presidential candidate, he said, I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected. Since then, a categorical statement, especially a denial, is called Shermanesque. Reporters ask politicians if their announcement not to run for an office is Shermanesque to confirm whether they really mean it.
Sherman also didnt beat around the bush when it came to military campaigns. His soldiers destroyed infrastructure, farms, etc. in their wake. So the term Shermanesque is also used to refer to a scorched-earth approach.
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SHORMANESQUE - like a sailor on leave
SHERPANESQUE - like a Himalayan mountain-climbing guide
SHEMANESQUE - in-your-face transgender
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Hermanesque- Like the 5th Earl of Shroudshire, lovable, good-natured, clumsy, buffoon.
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Carpettagger- 1001 of 1001 games, the carpettagger tries to take possession of the lamp before the sultan can make three wishes and vanish. If the sultan vanishes three more wishes are granted.
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...a CARPETBLAGGER ? (see the Word for just this past May 31) ___________________________________ CARPETBAGGERPRONUNCIATION: (KAHR-pet-bag-uhr) MEANING: An opportunistic outsider, especially a political candidate who contests election in an area while having little connection to it. ETYMOLOGY: In the US, the term was applied to a Northerner who went to the South after the Civil War during the Reconstruction era. Such a person typically carried his belongings in a bag made of old carpet. Earliest documented use: 1868. ____________________________ CARPETBRAGGER - Well, my oriental rug is 36 by 48 feet, and 3500 years old, and sold at auction for $350,000! CARETBAGGER - packager of insert marks CARPE.BAGGER - Seize the kid who puts your groceries into the sack!
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LOGROLLING
PRONUNCIATION: (LOG-ro-ling)
MEANING: noun:
1. The exchanging of favors, especially by legislators by voting for each others legislation.
2. A sport in which two players stand on a floating log and try to knock each other off by spinning the log with their feet.
ETYMOLOGY: From the former practice of neighbors helping each other move logs by rolling them. Earliest documented use: 1792.
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LAGROLLING - robbing a convict
LOWROLLING - like a mist (see also FOGROLLING)
LOGROWLING - noise made by a wary grizzly bear
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Lolrolling- laughing out loud while rolling down a hill.
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DOG-WHISTLE
PRONUNCIATION: (DOG [h]wis-uhl)
MEANING: noun: A coded message that appears innocuous to the general public, but that has an additional interpretation meant to appeal to the target audience, for example, to racists.
adjective: Relating to such a message.
ETYMOLOGY: From the allusion to a dog whistle whose high-pitched sound is inaudible to humans but can be heard by dogs. Earliest documented use: 1995.
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DAG-WHISTLE - how Blondie tells her husband that dinner's ready
DOG-WHITTLE - what woodcarvers do in their spare time
DO-WHISTLE - what your hairdresser uses to let you know your styling is finished
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Dog-thistle- flowering plant with a rough bark stem
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Surffrage- roar of a dark wild beast (Triton after being run off the wave by a merman)
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SUFFRAGE
PRONUNCIATION: (SUF-rij)
MEANING: noun: The right to vote; also, the exercise of such a right.
ETYMOLOGY: From French suffrage, from Latin suffragium (voting tablet, right to vote). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bhreg- (to break), which also gave us break, breach, fraction, fragile, fractal, infringe, irrefragable, and fractious. Suffrage? Because a broken piece of tile was used as a ballot in the past. Earliest documented use: 1380.
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SCUFFRAGE - You stepped on my blue suede shoes! Why you little...you'll pay for that!
SURFRAGE - the waves are very angry today
SUFFERAGE - having to make a painful choice in an election
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EQUANIMOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (i-KWAN-uh-muhs)
MEANING: adjective: Even-tempered: calm and composed in all circumstances.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin aequus (equal, even) + animus (mind, spirit). Earliest documented use: 1656.
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E-QUASI-MOUS - a small electronic pseudo-rodent
EQUANIMBUS - nothing but clouds to be seen in every direction
EQUINIMOUS - the Unknown Horseman
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MUMPISHPRONUNCIATION: (MUHM-pish) MEANING: adjective: Sullen; silent; depressed. ETYMOLOGY: From mump (grimace), perhaps of imitative origin. Earliest documented use: 1721. ________________________ MUMPSISH - having swollen, inflamed parotids (and testicles, too, if you're unlucky) MUMFISH - head of the Piscatorial school GUMPISH - heavily wooded, like a Forrest (or like Andy if you insist)
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COMPUNCTIOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (kuhm-PUNGK-shuhs)
MEANING: adjective: Feeling remorse or guilt.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin compungere (to prick hard), from com- (intensive prefix) + pungere (to prick). Ultimately from the Indo-European root peuk- (to prick), which is also the source of point, puncture, pungent, punctual, poignant, pounce, poniard, impugn, oppugn, and pugnacious. Earliest documented use: 1616.
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COMPUNCTIOLUS - a teeny weeny bit of regret
COMPUNCTIOU - I feel bad about giving you this promissory note, 'cause I know I have no intention to pay it
"COMPUNCHIOUS" - said the Masochist; and the Sadist said, "No!"
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VITUPERATIVE
PRONUNCIATION: (vy-TOO-puhr-uh-tiv, -TYOO-, vi-)
MEANING: adjective: Criticizing bitterly, scathing, abusive.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin vituperare (to blame), from vitium (fault) + parare (to make or prepare). Earliest documented use: 1727.
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AVITUPERATIVE - Angry Birds
VI-TUBER-ATIVE - six sweet potatoes
VOTUPERATIVE - the current Presidential election cycle
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INGENIOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (in-JEEN-yuhs)
MEANING: adjective: Clever, creative, inventive.
ETYMOLOGY: Via French from Latin ingeniosus (clever, talented, full of intellect), from ingenium (inborn talent), from gignere (to beget). Earliest documented use: 1483. Dont confuse ingenious with ingenuous even though both words are from the same root.
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INGE.NOUS - our Willliam, the French playwright (Picnic, Splendor in the Grass, Bus Stop, Come Bac, Little Sheba, and others)
ING-ENVIOUS - jealous of participles
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CALUMNIATE
PRONUNCIATION: (kuh-LUHM-nee-ayt)
MEANING: verb tr.: To make false statements about someone maliciously.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin calumniari (to accuse falsely). Earliest documented use: 1554.
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CALUMNIASE - the enzyme that dissolves malicious falsehoods
COLUMNIATE - arguing about whether pillars are Ionic or Corinthian (or maybe Doric)
ALUMNIATE - what the graduates did at their big Reunion
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FLOCCIPEND
PRONUNCIATION: (FLOK-si-pend)
MEANING: verb tr.: To regard as worthless.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin flocci, from floccus (tuft of wool) + pendere (to weigh or consider). Earliest documented use: 1548. A related word is floccinaucinihilipilification.
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FLACCIPEND - hanging limply, like a flag in still air
FLOCKIPEND - just waiting for my sheep to come in
FLOCCITEND - ...I shall not want...
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EXONERATE
PRONUNCIATION: (ig-ZON-uh-rayt)
MEANING: verb tr.: 1. To free from blame. 2. To release from a task or obligation.
ETYMOLOGY: from Latin ex- (from) + onus (burden), which also gave English onus and onerous. Earliest documented use: 1524.
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EXOPERATE - I hear they kicked the surgeon off the hospital staff
EXOVERATE - I divorced him 'cause he was much too heavy
EXFONERATE - that's what I used to pay for my land line
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FOOZLE
PRONUNCIATION: (FOO-zuhl)
MEANING: verb tr., intr.: To botch or bungle, especially to make a poor shot in golf; noun: A botched attempt at something.
ETYMOLOGY: Perhaps from German dialect fuseln (to work badly). Earliest documented use: 1857.
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FOZZLE - a prehistoric animal or plant remnant, preserved in stone
FLOOZLE - a diminutive woman of loose moral character
FFOOZLE - like a Heffalump, only much, much louder
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Fonzle- a gift from 'The Fonz'
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PROPITIATE
PRONUNCIATION: (pruh-PISH-ee-ayt)
MEANING: verb tr.: To gain the favor of someone; to appease.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin propitiare (to make favorable, to appease). Ultimately from the Indo-European root pet- (to rush, fly) which also gave us feather, pin, impetus, pinnacle, helicopter, propitious, lepidopterology, peripeteia, petulant, and pteridology. Earliest documented use: 1583.
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PREPITIATE - payment in advance
PROPITIRATE - 1. people who are in favor of aggressive attack dogs make me angry
2. Ditto people who don't appreciate seedless fruit
PROFITIATE - ...said the baker who enjoyed too much of his own creations
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DABSTER
PRONUNCIATION: (DAB-stuhr)
MEANING: noun:
1. An expert.
2. A bungler.
ETYMOLOGY: From dab (an expert) + -ster (denoting a person engaged in some activity; originally a feminine suffix, also used as a diminutive and derogatory suffix). Earliest documented use: 1708.
Note: The first sense is more popular in the UK, while the second in the US.
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ABSTER - sit-ups champion
DbSTER - Dolby employee
DABITER - mosquito responsible for spreading disease in New York City
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SALAD DAYS
PRONUNCIATION: (SAL-uhd dayz)
MEANING: noun:
1. A period of youthful innocence and inexperience.
2. A period of great success: heyday.
ETYMOLOGY: The earliest documented use of the term is from Shakespeares Antony and Cleopatra (1616). Cleopatra, now in love with Antony, explains her previous admiration for Julius Caesar with these words:
My salad days,
When I was green in judgment, cold in blood,
To say as I said then.
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SALAD DRYS - what you use to blot the water off the lettuce after you wash it
SALSA D-DAYS - we bring out the spicy dip every June 6
USA LAD DAYS - when the United States Mens' Olympic squad does something noteworthy
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DEPTHLESS
PRONUNCIATION: (DEPTH-les)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Immeasurably deep.
2. Shallow; superficial.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English deop (deep) + laes (less). Earliest documented use: 1619.
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DEPTHELESS - a mildly successful Elf King; he succeeded his father, Dep the Great
DEPATHLESS - having new walkways in the previously impenetrable jungle
ADEPTHLESS - igly skilled (ADEPT, H-less)
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GROG
PRONUNCIATION: (grog)
MEANING: noun:
1. An alcoholic drink diluted with water.
2. A strong alcoholic drink.
ETYMOLOGY: After Old Grog, nickname of Admiral Edward Vernon (1684-1757), who ordered diluted rum to be served to his sailors. The admiral earned the nickname from his habit of wearing a grogram cloak. Grogram is a coarse fabric of silk, wool, mohair, or a blend of them. The word grogram is from French gros grain (large grain or texture). Earliest documented use: 1770.
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GROW the seventh line of chairs in an auditorium, right behind Row F but in front of Row H
AROG The Green Bay Packers nickname for their first-string quarterback
GROP past tense of GRIP
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"...adieu with good grace to my morals, my morals
SENTENTIOUS"
PRONUNCIATION: (sen-TEN-shuhs)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Full of pithy expressions.
2. Full of pompous moralizing.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin sententia (opinion), from sentire (to feel or to have an opinion). Some other words derived from the same root are: sense, sentence, sentiment, sentinel, assent, consent, dissent, and resent. Earliest documented use: 1440.
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SENSENTIOUS - needing a strong breath lozenge of the 50s, (mint or licorice flavored)
SENTENCIOUS - having a subject and a verb and various other objects and clauses and phrases, and capable of being diagrammed
ENTENTIOUS - diplomatically understanding and cooperative, to mutual advantage
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JAMBALAYA
PRONUNCIATION: (juhm-buh-LY-uh)
MEANING: noun:
1. A dish made of rice, herbs, spices, vegetables, and meat.
2. A heterogeneous mixture.
ETYMOLOGY: From Louisiana French, from Provenįal jambalaia. Earliest documented use: 1872.
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LAMBALAYA - mutton lasagna
SAMBALAYA - a spicy Brazilian dance
JAMALAYA - Frau Merkel, do you know what country has Kuala Lampur as its capital?
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Farrasinous- a dinosaur from the late hypotenuse period, known for terrorizing it's victims with post nasal drip torture
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FARRAGINOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (fuh-RAJ-uh-nuhs)
MEANING: adjective: Heterogeneous; having a mix of random things.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin farrago (mixed fodder), from far/farr (corn or spelt). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bhares- (barley), which also gave us barn, barley, farina, and farrago. Earliest documented use: 1616.
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FARRAGINUS - a sentry's slurred-together challenge; un-compressed, it expands "are ya fer or agin us?"
BARRAGINOUS - continuously bombarding, like a fusillade
EARRAGINOUS - stroking the pinna to arouse libidinous feelings
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KOOL-AID
PRONUNCIATION: (KOOL-ayd)
MEANING: noun: Something accepted without question. Usually used in the phrase to drink the kool-aid: to accept something unquestioningly or to demonstrate unquestioning loyalty.
ETYMOLOGY: From Kool-Aid, a powdered flavored drink introduced in 1927. It was earlier known as Kool-Ade, from respelling of cool + -ade (a fruit drink, as in lemonade). Earliest documented use: 1927.
NOTES: Jim Jones was the leader of a cult named Peoples Temple in Jonestown, Guyana. In 1978, he had more than 900 of his followers killed in a murder-suicide by drinking Kool-Aid laced with cyanide. This event gave birth to the figure of speech to drink the kool-aid.
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TOOL-AID - the start of the Stanley company of New Britain, CT
BOOLA ID - the sex drive of a Yale student
KOOKLA ID - how you prove you're not Fran or Ollie
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RAGOUT
PRONUNCIATION: (ra-GOO)
MEANING: noun
1. A highly seasoned stew of meat, vegetables, etc.
2. A mixture of disparate elements.
ETYMOLOGY: From French ragoût, from ragouter (to revive the taste), from re- (again) + a-/ad (to) + gout (taste), from Latin gustus (taste). Ultimately from the Indo-European root geus- (to taste or choose), which also gave us choice, choose, gusto, disgust, degust, and pregustator. Earliest documented use: 1652.
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RANGOUT - 1) a spicy stew from the Burmese capital (well, the capital from 1852 to 2005, anyway)
2) what gunshots occasionally did
ORAGOUT - inflammatory arthritis of the temporo-mandibular joint
FRAGOUT - what the disgruntled private did to his hated Drill Sergeant
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Immolate- the technical term for, "My, what big teeth you have."
Immolate- slang term for, "I'm more late than usual."
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IMMOLATE
PRONUNCIATION: (IM-uh-layt)
MEANING: verb tr.: To kill or sacrifice, especially by burning.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin immolare (to sprinkle, to sprinkle with meal before sacrificing), from in- (into) + mola (meal). Earliest documented use: 1548.
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IMPOLATE - ...never did get around to sending those Thank You notes
IMMORATE - No, nothing's wrong
IMMOLATTE - to put in wheat germ before you brew the coffee
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Here it is Sunday. I'll be AFK this week; TTYL
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and ready for another week
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TOP-HAT
PRONUNCIATION: (TOP-hat)
MEANING: noun:
1. A mans tall, cylindrical hat.
2. An important or high-ranking person.
ETYMOLOGY: From the association of a top hat with people of the upper class. Earliest documented use: 1881.
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TOPHAL - pertaining to the exquisitely painful joint that is Gout
TOP-CHAT - when Kennedy phoned Khrushchev
TIO-PHAT - my half-Latino-half-Vietnamese uncle
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COATTAILPRONUNCIATION: (KOHT-tayl) MEANING: noun: 1. The long back part of a tailcoat that hangs down. 2. The success of another person or organization. Usually used in the idiom to ride on someones coattails meaning to achieve success by association with someone successful. ETYMOLOGY: Often a popular leader of a political party helps attract votes for candidates of the same party for other positions as well. For example, a popular presidential candidate results in more victories for congressional races of the same party. In other words, these other candidates ride on the coattails of the president. This is known as the coattail effect. From Old French cote (coat) + Old English toegl (tail). Earliest documented use: 1600. ____________________________ COSTTAIL - what you pay for a Malpractice Insurance policy for claims relating to events that that might have happened in the past...after you retire and the policy is no longer in force (the "tail") COALTAIL - The lighter particles which pass over a sieve in the milling, crushing, or purifying of coal (see "tailings") COATTAILI, Zoltan (16 December 1882 6 March 1967): Hungarian composer born of Italian parents; ethnomusicologist, pedagogue, linguist, and philosopher, inventer of a method of teaching music, especially for children. See here.
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HAIRSHIRT
PRONUNCIATION: (HAIR-shuhrt)
MEANING: noun:
1. A shirt made of haircloth, worn next to the skin as a penance.
2. A self-imposed punishment or penance.
3. A secret affliction.
ETYMOLOGY: In some faiths, as a sign of penance some people wear garments made of coarse animal hair close to their skin. From Old English haer + scyrte. Earliest documented use: 1737. Also see cilice.
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CHAIRSHIRT - an article of clothing worn by the head of a committee
HAIRSHIFT - put on a different wig
HAIRSHIRE - where Bugs Bunny lived when he was a Hobbit
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STUFFED SHIRT
PRONUNCIATION: (stuhft shuhrt)
MEANING: noun: A pompous, self-satisfied, and old-fashioned person.
ETYMOLOGY: From the formally-dressed look of such a person. Earliest documented use: 1840s.
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STUFFED SKIRT - half a maternity outfit
STIFFED SHIRT - too much starch?
STUFFED HIRT - trumpet player ate way too much
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SLYBOOTS
PRONUNCIATION: (SLY-boots)
MEANING: noun: Someone who is clever or crafty in a playful or engaging way.
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From sly (cunning), from Old Norse sloegr (cunning) + boots (fellow), as in lazyboots. Earliest documented use: 1699.
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SLYBOOTH - the cubicle on the Midway where the slyboots plies his trade (and charges you for it, no less)
SLYBOATS - Pirates of the Caribbean
SLYBOTS - clever little computer subroutines that sniff around the net without letting you know they're there...
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FLAGRANT
PRONUNCIATION: (FLAY-gruhnt)
MEANING: adjective: Conspicuously offensive.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin flagrare (to burn). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bhel- (to shine or burn), which is also the source of blaze, blank, blond, bleach, blanket, flame, refulgent, fulminate, effulgent, and flagrante delicto. Earliest documented use: 1450.
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FLAG-RANT - impassioned statement about injustice unremedied country-wide (cf. Colin Kaepernick)
FLYGRANT - scholarship to Pilot school
FLAGRAFT - command vessel in a fleet of very primitive warships
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MENDACIOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (men-DAY-shuhs)
MEANING: adjective: Telling lies, especially as a habit.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin mendac-, stem of mendax (lying), from mendum (fault or defect) that also gave us amend, emend, and mendicant. Earliest documented use: 1616.
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AMENDACIOUS - changing frequently what one has written or promulgated
MENTACIOUS - full of thoughts about the chin
MENACIOUS - threatening
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VENAL
PRONUNCIATION: (VEEN-l)
MEANING: adjective: 1. Capable of being bought: open to bribery. 2. Of or related to bribery.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin venalis (that which is for sale), from venum (sale). Ultimately from the Indo-European root wes- (to buy) that is also the source of vend, bazaar, vilify, and monopsony. Earliest documented use: 1827.
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VOENAL - pertaining to the corruption of ancient Greek culture
VENTAL letting everything hang out the window, usually angrily
AVENAL - 1. without blood vessels returning to the heart
2. perpendicular to streets
3. like oatmeal
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VENALA vanilla whose taste disappeared
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FECKLESS
PRONUNCIATION: (FEK-les)
MEANING: adjective: Weak; ineffective; incompetent; irresponsible.
ETYMOLOGY: From Scots feck, from effeck, a variant of effect, from Latin efficere (to accomplish), from ef-, a variant of ex- (thoroughly) + facere (to make). Earliest documented use: 1586.
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FECKLERS - foul-mouthed members of the audience giving the speaker a hard time
PECKLESS - a chicken with no beak
FECKLES - little red-brown splotches on the skin of a two-year-old
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VERITABLE
PRONUNCIATION: (VER-i-tuh-buhl)
MEANING: adjective: True; real (typically used as an intensifier for a metaphor).
ETYMOLOGY:From Old French verai (true), from Latin verus (true). Earliest documented use: 1474.
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VEGITABLE - where you stack your Peas and Cukes
VERSITABLE - where you write poetry
VERITABLET - truth serum in pill form
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BOULEVARDIER
PRONUNCIATION: (bool-uh-vahr-DYAY, -DEER)
MEANING: noun: A socially active man who likes to visit fashionable places.
ETYMOLOGY: From French, originally a man who frequents boulevards, from boulevard (a wide street), from Old French bollevart (rampart converted to a promenade), from Middle Dutch or German bollwerk (bulwark). Earliest documented use: 1879.
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POULEVARDIER - the chicken who crossed the French road
BOULEVARDENER - tends the flowers and trees on the Champs Élysées
BOOLAVARDIER - an Ivy Leaguer who can't make up his mind whether he goes to Yale or Harvard
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PACHYDERM
PRONUNCIATION: (PAK-i-duhrm)
MEANING: noun
1. Someone or something having thick skin, for example, elephant, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros.
2. An insensitive person.
3. A person who is not affected by criticism or ridicule.
ETYMOLOGY: From French pachyderme, from Greek pakhudermos (thick-skinned), from pakhus (thick) + derma (skin). Ultimately from the Indo-European root der- (to split, peel, or flay), which also gave us tear, tart, turd, and Hindi dalit (oppressed, crushed). Earliest documented use: 1828.
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PACHYPERM - treatment to make your hair simultaneously thick and curly
PEACHYDERM - skin like Scarlett O'Hara's (antebellum, anyway)
PATCHYDERM - the Heartbreak of Psoriasis
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REVENANT
PRONUNCIATION: (REV-uh-nuhnt)
MEANING: noun: A person who returns after a long absence or supposedly after death.
ETYMOLOGY: From French revenant (ghost), from revenir (to return), from Latin re- (again) + venire (to come). Earliest documented use: 1823.
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REVENAST - dream of being a political cartoonist
RETENANT - finding a new renter after a successful eviction
REVENDANT - the name of a fancy Paris shop for pre-owned merchandise
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RHAPSODE
PRONUNCIATION: (RAP-sohd)
MEANING: noun: A professional reciter of poems.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin rhapsodia, from Greek rhapsoidia (recitation of epic poetry), from rhaptein (to stitch together) + aidein (to sing), from oide (song). Ultimately from the Indo-European root wed- (to speak), which also gave us parody, comedy, tragedy, melody, and ode. Earliest documented use: 1712.
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RAPSODE - 1. a professional chanter of modern rapid-fire rhythmic poems;
2. an extraordinarily tentative participant in a poetry slam
RHAPSODA - the preferred drink at the slam
REAPSODE - a Harvest poet
RHAPISODE - one chapter in a serialized saga (think Homer's Odyssey)
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BON VIVEUR
PRONUNCIATION: (BON* vee-VUHR) [* this syllable is nasal]
MEANING: noun: A person who enjoys good food, drinks, luxuries, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: A pseudo-French formation, from bon (good) + viveur (a living person), from vivre (to live). A synonym is bon vivant. Earliest documented use: 1865.
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SON VIVEUR - My kid does nothing but party all day... (see also SIN VIVEUR; BOY VIVEUR)
BON VIVEUR
BON VIVEUR
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BOND VIVEUR - characterizing Ian Fleming's Secret Agent
BAN VIVEUR - 1. campaign slogan of the Puritans
2. after a night on the town, you need a good deodorant
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KITSCHPRONUNCIATION: (kich) MEANING: noun: Art objects that are gaudy or overly sentimental, designed for popular appeal. adjective: Tawdry, tacky, sentimental. ETYMOLOGY: From German Kitsch. Earliest documented use: 1926. NOTES: What comes to mind when you think of kitsch? Here are some examples: a coffee mug in the shape of a pineapple, ceramic Santa Claus, plastic flamingos on a lawn, snow globes, popular religious iconography. __________________________ SKITSCH -- Lyle Russell Henderson - American composer, arranger, conductor. Married to Faye Emerson 1950-58 KIMSCH - an abbreviated traditional Korean fermented dish made of many different vegetable ingredients, textures, and seasonings depending on what part of the country it comes from (see here) KATSCH - 1. a children's game played with a ball; 2. a fisherman's haul; 3. a hidden store of supplies or other goods; 4. money (as opposed to credit or other obligations) 5. n. or v. snag or interruption
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KILTSCH skirts worn by Scotsmen
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Verbaten- trolling not allowed Ooh, that's subtle! 
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VERBOTEN
PRONUNCIATION: (vuhr-BOHT-n)
MEANING: adjective: Not allowed; forbidden.
ETYMOLOGY: From German verboten (forbidden), past participle of verbieten (to forbid). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bheudh- (to be or to make aware), which also gave us beadle, ombudsman, forbid, and the word Buddha. Earliest documented use: 1912.
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VERBOSTEN - how Red Sox and Patriots and Celtics and Bruins fans fans root
VERB TEN - member of a list of action words
OVERBOTEN - they were on sale, and I got way too many of 'em
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UBERMENSCH
PRONUNCIATION: (OO-buhr-mensch)
MEANING: noun: An ideal man; also used ironically.
ETYMOLOGY: From German Übermensch (superman), from über (over) + Mensch (man). In Nietzschean philosophy, an Übermensch is an ideal superior being. Earliest documented use: 1902. Also see mensch and luftmensch.
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BUBERMENSCH - a person not quite sure how to relate to consciousness-bearing entities as opposed to animate objects ("I-Thou" vs. "I-it")
UMBERMENSCH - a brown-skinned humanoid
UBERMUNSCH - what you eat while you transport passengers in your personal-car-for-hire
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GAULEITER
PRONUNCIATION: (GOU-ly-tuhr)
MEANING: noun: An overbearing petty official.
ETYMOLOGY: From German Gauleiter (a district leader in Nazi Germany), from Gau (district) + Leiter (leader). Earliest documented use: 1936.
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GASLEITER - turned on the streetlights in late-19th-century Berlin
EAU-LEITER - 1,000 cc of water from the Seine
GAUL EIDER - a French duck
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CLERISY
PRONUNCIATION: (KLER-i-see)
MEANING: noun: The well-educated class; the literati; the intelligentsia.
ETYMOLOGY: From German Klerisei (clergy), from Latin clericus (cleric), from Greek klerikos (belonging to the clergy), from Greek kleros (inheritance). Earliest documented use: 1834. The clerisy, the clergy, and clerks are all cousins, etymologically speaking.
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CELERISY - the fast-moving
SCLERISY - looking at the whites of your eyes
CLERITY - plain speaking, in Brooklyn
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HENCHMAN
PRONUNCIATION: (HENCH-muhn)
MEANING: noun: A supporter or subordinate, especially one who engages in illegal activities for a powerful boss or criminal.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English hengest (a male horse) + man. Earlier a henchman was an attendant who walked or rode beside a prince. Earliest documented use: 1360.
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BENCHMAN - Jacoby Brisett, before this week and after next week. A player whose role is mostly to warm the bench.
HUNCHMAN - 1. Quasimodo; 2. the psychic who discredited himself by cancelling an appearance due to unforeseen circumstances
HENCEMAN - a student of Socrates, as presented by Plato
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noodle-faker - spiralized summer squash
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POODLEFAKER
PRONUNCIATION: (POOD-l fay-kuhr)
MEANING: noun: A man who seeks out the company of upper-status women, especially for advancing himself.
ETYMOLOGY: The term poodle-faker was British slang for a newly commissioned officer who cultivates female company, especially for social or professional advancement. From poodle (a breed developed to retrieve game from the water), from German Pudel (poodle), from Low German pudeln (to splash about), from pudel (puddle). Earliest documented use: 1902.
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POODLEWAKER - canine alarm clock
POODLEFAKIR - the Dog Swami
DOODLEFAKER - the artist behind counterfeit Google splashscreen cartoons (Didja see today's? Google is 18 years old today! Have they registered to vote, do you think?)
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DOODLEFAKERME, in high schools boring classes.
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HARE-BRAINED
PRONUNCIATION: (HAYR-braynd)
adjective: Foolish; reckless; ridiculous.
From the allusion that a harebrained person has the brain as small as a hares. From Old English hara (hare) + braegen (brain). Earliest documented use: 1548.
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HARE-TRAINED - well-schooled in the Krishna movement, a branch of Hinduism, formally known as Gaudiya Vaishnavism
HATE-BRAINED - skin-headed
SHARE-BRAINED - forwarding email and internet messages without any consideration of their appropriateness or even truth
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DUCK SOUP
PRONUNCIATION: (DUHK soop)
MEANING: noun: Something that is very easy to do.
ETYMOLOGY: Is duck soup very easy to make? How the term duck soup came to be known for an easily accomplished task is unclear. Earliest documented use: 1912
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DUSK SOUP - a light meal at sunset...
DUNK SOUP - ...suitable for moistening your dry doughnut
DUCK SOUR - Donald, why the fowl disposition today?
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SCARE-BRAINED-preparing one's Hallowe'en costume
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SCARE-BRAINED - preparing one's Hallowe'en costume Yeah, that works!
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SKYLARK
PRONUNCIATION: (SKY-lark)
MEANING: verb intr.: To frolic or to engage in horseplay.
ETYMOLOGY: Skylark is a small bird known for singing while soaring in the sky. Earlier, the term skylark was used by seamen to refer to playfully moving around the rigging of a ship. From sky + lark, from Old Norse sky (cloud). Earliest documented use: 1686.
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SKYDARK - total eclipse of the sun
SKYLURK - unpublicized drone
SKILARK - spur-of-the-moment trip to Vail
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SKYHARK - 'it's a bird, it's a plane, it's ......."
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NARCISSISM
PRONUNCIATION: (NAHR-si-siz-uhm)
MEANING: noun: Excessive self-interest or self-love.
ETYMOLOGY: In Greek mythology, Narcissus was a hunter and a young man of exceptional beauty. He spurned the nymph Echo. One day he saw his reflection in water and fell in love with himself. Not realizing it was himself and unable to leave, he eventually died. Earliest documented use: 1822.
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ANARCISSISM - There is no government, and I'm its best leader
SNARCISSISM - ...and I'm S-O-O-O-O sarcastic
FARCISSISM - ...and I'm going to take over the Colombian drug industry too while I'm at it. Why not? Nobody else can do it.
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FARCISSISM - ...and I'm going to take over the Colombian drug industry too while I'm at it. Why not? Nobody else can do it.
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QUARCISSISM the essence of being a quark, way out there.
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LIEN
PRONUNCIATION: (leen, LEE-uhn)
MEANING: noun: A claim on anothers property until a debt owed by that person is paid back.
ETYMOLOGY: From French lien (bond, tie), from Latin ligamen (bond, tie), from ligare (to bind). Ultimately from the Indo-European root leig- (to bind), which also gave us league, ligament, ligature, ally, alloy, rally, liaison, religion, rely, oblige, and furl. Earliest documented use: 1530.
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RIEN - Think nothing of it!
ALIEN - me, now that I've paid the mechanic's bill and gotten my car back
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TIEN shortened form of Tianaman Square, Beijing
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Nien- No. It's pronounced Nien
Mien- You are so mien! (sniff, sniff)
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VITRIOL
PRONUNCIATION: (VI-tree-uhl)
MEANING: noun: Cruel, mean-spirited, bitter criticism.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin vitrum (glass). Sulfuric acid, a highly corrosive substance, was formerly known as oil of vitriol or simply vitriol. It was named vitriol owing to the glassy appearance of its salts. Earliest documented use: 1386.
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VITRIO - 1. Brazilian health additive; 2. an 18-member musical group
EVITRIOL - Juan Peron cursing his wife
ZITRIOL - the active ingredient in your acne remedy
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PRECARIOUSPRONUNCIATION: (pri-KAYR-ee-uhs) MEANING: adjective: Risky; uncertain; insecure; unstable; unsafe. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin precarius (obtained by entreaty, hence uncertain), from prex (prayer). So something precarious is hanging by a prayer, which is, not by much. Ultimately from the Indo-European root prek- (to ask), which also gave us pray, precarious, deprecate, postulate, precatory, and expostulate. Earliest documented use: 1638. ___________________________________ PREVARIOUS - 1. lying; 2. comes before many other things PRECARIBOUS - before there were reindeer PREMARIOUS - for relief of post-menopausal symptoms; made of conjugated equine estrogens, extracted from the urine of PREgnant MARes (see Package Insert)
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DEMAGOGUE (or DEMAGOG)
PRONUNCIATION: (DEM-uh-gog)
MEANING: noun: A person who appeals to the prejudices and emotions of the people to gain power.
verb tr., intr.: To manipulate an issue, to speak, or to act in the manner of a demagogue.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek demagogos (leader of the people), from demos (people) + agogos (leader). Earliest documented use: 1649.
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HEMAGOGUE - ruler with an iron hand
FEMAGOGUE - Chair of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, who is full of prophecies of doom
DECAGOGUE - the Council of Ten
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CONFUTE
PRONUNCIATION: (kuhn-FYOOT)
MEANING: verb tr.: To prove to be wrong.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin confutare (to restrain or silence), from con- (an intensifier) + futare (to beat). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bhau- (to strike), which also gave us refute, beat, button, halibut, and buttress. Earliest documented use: 1529
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CONFLUTE - jailhouse band instrument
ECONFUTE - Reagonomics didn't work
CONFETE - 1. musical instruction meaning "play festively"
2. the little paper dots they drop the Bastille Day parade
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Ponfute- to travel by foot
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PROPINE
PRONUNCIATION: (pro-PEEN, PYN)
MEANING: verb tr.: To gift, tip, or pledge.
noun: A gift or tip.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin propinare (to drink to someones health, to present), from Greek propinein (to drink first, to give), from pro- (for, before) + pinein (to drink). Earliest documented use: 1448.
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PYROPINE - the conifer wood burns well, but it'll coat your chimney with a flammable residue.
PROSINE - against cosines and tangents
PRE-OPINE - My mind is made up; don't confuse me with facts !
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FLOCCULATE
PRONUNCIATION: (FLOK-yuh-layt)
MEANING: verb tr., intr.: To form or cause to form into clumps.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin flocculus, diminutive of Latin floccus (tuft of wool). Earliest documented use: 1826.
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FLOCCULATTE - the cream in my coffee has curdled
FLICCULATE - you French cops took your sweet time getting here
FLOCCULATEX - rubber gloves with lumps in them
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ABSOLVE
PRONUNCIATION:m (ab-ZOLV, -solv)
MEANING: verb tr.: To free from guilt, blame, responsibility, obligation, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin absolvere (to set free), from solvere (to loosen). Ultimately from the Indo-European root leu- (to loosen, divide), which also gave us forlorn, lag, loss, solve, analysis, resolute, and catalyst. Earliest documented use: 1475.
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CABSOLVE - Uber and Lyft and such like
AHSOLVE - Charlie Chan to the rescue
A.B.SOLE - not just a school but a university of fish
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OBJURGATE
PRONUNCIATION: (OB-juhr-gayt)
MEANING: verb tr.: To scold severely.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin objurgare (to scold), from ob- (against) + jurgare/jurigare (to quarrel, to scold). Ultimately from the Indo-European root yewes- (law), which is also the source of jury, judge, just, injury, perjury, conjure, adjure and de jure. Earliest documented use: 1616.
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OBDURGATE - stubbornly denying that there is a scandal ("Nothing happened")
ABJURGATE - ...and disavowing it entirely, too (..."and I didn't do it, either")
O.B.JURYGATE - special entrance for the panel at a malpractice trial
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RUMINATE
PRONUNCIATION: (ROO-mi-nayt)
MEANING: verb tr., intr.: 1. To think deeply upon. 2. To chew the cud.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin ruminare (to chew the cud), from rumen (throat). Earliest documented use: 1533.
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RUMIRATE - 1. the hotel's nightly charge; 2. fee for spreading falsehoods; 3. angry sailors' liquor
RAMINATE - branched
TRUMINATE - Harry S had dinner
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BUSHWA or BUSHWAH
PRONUNCIATION: (BUSH-wa)
MEANING: noun: Nonsense; bull.
ETYMOLOGY: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a mispronunciation of bourgeois. Earliest documented use: 1920.
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BUSHWA - something so outlandish it makes you turn red merely to utter it
BUSTWA - the wheeled vehicle you take from the airport gate to the plane
BUSHWAX - the reason holly leaves are so shiny
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OBAMBULATEPRONUNCIATION: (o-BAM-byuh-layt) MEANING: verb intr.: To walk about. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin ob- (to) + ambulare (to walk). Earliest documented use: 1614. ____________________________________ OX.AMBULATE - to plow a field boustrophedonicallyOBRA.MBULATE - I have a cushy job in Cancun; I just walk around all day OB.AMBU.LATEX - rubber used to make a breathing bag for obstetrical emergencies
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TRUMPERY
PRONUNCIATION: (TRUHM-puh-ree)
MEANING: noun:
1. Something showy but worthless.
2. Nonsense or rubbish.
3. Deceit; fraud; trickery.
ETYMOLOGY: From French tromper (to deceive). Earliest documented use: 1481.
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TRUMPFRY - Donald Jr, Ivanka, Tiffany, and Eric
TRAUMPERY - what a Clinton defeat would be for many
STRUMPERY - playing the guitar with the right hand (Honi soit qui mal y pense)
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HILARITY
PRONUNCIATION: (hi-LAYR-i-tee)
MEANING: noun: Cheerfulness; merriment.
ETYMOLOGY: From French hilarité (hilarity), from Latin hilaris (cheerful), from Greek hilaros (cheerful). Earliest documented use: 1568.
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HILLARITY - plate tectonics
HICLARITY - the false sense that you understand the world, that comes after you've had too much to drink
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ORNERY
PRONUNCIATION: (OR-nuh-ree)
MEANING: adjective: Having an unpleasant disposition: irritable, stubborn, combative, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: An alteration of the word ordinary, from Latin ordo (order, rank). In the beginning the word ornery was just a dialect pronunciation of the word ordinary and meant the same. Over time it acquired negative senses, from commonplace to lazy to mean to cantankerous. Earliest documented use: 1692.
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ORTERY - moralistic; someone who judges actions by whether or not they orter
ORNERRY - slopppily commonplace
ORBERY - see ORRERY
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PASSEL
PRONUNCIATION: (PAS-uhl)
MEANING: noun: A large group or a large number.
ETYMOLOGY: Alteration of parcel, from Anglo-French parcele, from Latin particella, diminutive of particula (small part), diminutive of pars (part). Earliest documented use: 1325.
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PARSEL - the language of Nangini the snake
SPASSEL - just my little joke, Fräulein
PASSELI - what Tom B. wants to do, and in as many categories as possible
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PARSEL - the language of Nangini the snake
wise, are you
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(It was meant to be a tongue-in-cheek remark)
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SASSY
PRONUNCIATION: (SAS-ee)
MEANING: adjective: Impudent; bold; outspoken; lively; feisty; stylish.
ETYMOLOGY: Alteration of saucy, from sauce, from Latin salsa, from sallere (to salt), from sal (salt). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sal- (salt), which is also the source of silt, sausage, salad, salami, salary, and salmagundi. Earliest documented use: 1833
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SPASSY - another German joke
SASLY - like a Scandinavian airplane
SASPY - a member of the Peruvian Secret Service
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TARNAL
PRONUNCIATION: (TAHR-nuhl)
MEANING: adjective, adverb: Damned.
ETYMOLOGY: Alteration of eternal (as in eternal damnation), from Latin aeternus, from aevum (age). Ultimately from the Indo-European root aiw-/ayu- (vital force, life, eternity), which also gave us ever, never, aye, nay, eon, eternal, medieval, primeval, utopia, Sanskrit Ayurveda, aught, coeval, and coetaneous. Earliest documented use: 1790.
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TSARNAL - the Droit de Seigneur in St. Petersburg; hanky-panky in old Russia
BARNAL - what keeps the mouse population down on upstate Vermont farms
TARNAIL - what a sailor bites when he's nervous
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RAIMENT
PRONUNCIATION: (RAY-muhnt)
MEANING: noun: Clothing.
ETYMOLOGY: Alteration of arrayment, from array, from Old French arrayer (to array). Ultimately from the Indo-European root reidh- (to ride), which also gave us ride, raid, road, and ready. Earliest documented use: 1425.
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VRAIMENT - truly Parisian
PAIMENT - 'ow you buy things
RAIPENT - the Irishman demands you renounce your bad deeds
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HIPPOLOGY
PRONUNCIATION: (hi-POL-uh-jee)
MEANING: noun: The study of horses.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek hippo- (horse) + -logy (study). Ultimately from the Indo-European root ekwo- (horse), which also gave us equestrian, equitant, hippocampus, hippogriff, and the name Philip (lover of horses). Earliest documented use: 1854.
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HIPOLOGY - the study of the leg/pelvis joint
CHIPPOLOGY - INTEL's patent portfolio
HAPPOLOGY - how a Brit says "I'm sorry"
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(And don't forget "hippopotamus" is a "river horse." The Potomac River is redundant.)
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HOPPOLOGY the study of the movement of rabbits and hares and
Kangaroos.
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HYPOGEAL
PRONUNCIATION: (hy-puh-JEE-uhl, HIP-uh-)
MEANING: adjective: Underground: living, growing, or existing below the surface of the earth.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek hypo- (under) + -geal (relating to earth), from ge (earth). Earliest documented use: 1686.
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HYPNOGEAL - sleeping powder that tastes like dirt
HYPOGEL - artificial injectable cartilage for spine discs, or knees, or whatever you'll pay for; see SynVisc
HYPOGOAL - this deltoid muscle right th-e-r-e!
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XEROPHILIC
PRONUNCIATION: (zee-ruh-FIL-ik)
MEANING: adjective: Adapted to a very dry or desert environment.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek xero- (dry) + -philic (liking). Earliest documented use: 1961.
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AEROPHILIC - liking flying
XENOPHILIC - liking strange things
ZEROPHILIC - liking nothing
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HEROPHILIC a fan of Avengers, Legends of Tomorrow, Superman,
Batman and their ilk.
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STEGANOGRAPHYPRONUNCIATION: (ste-guh-NOG-ruh-fee) MEANING: noun: The practice of concealing a message within another nonsecret message. ETYMOLOGY: From Greek stego- (cover) + -graphy (writing). Ultimately from the Indo-European root (s)teg- (to cover), which also gave us thatch, toga, stegosaurus, detect, and protect. Earliest documented use: 1569. NOTES: Examples of steganography: Shrinking the secret text until its the size of a dot and then putting it in an unsuspected place, such as the dot on top of a letter i in some innocuous letter. Shaving the head of a man, writing the secret message on his pate with unwashable ink, and then letting the hair grow back before dispatching him to the destination (example from history). To take an example from modern digital techniques, one could put the text of a message in the blank spaces in an image file. _____________________________________ TEGANOGRAPHY - dermatographia ("skin-writing"; from tegmentum, fr. tegmen, fr. tegere) SEGANOGRAPHY - images of a game console STEGANOGRAPH - a picture of Saint Egan
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NIDICOLOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (ny-DIK-uh-luhs)
MEANING: adjective:
1. Remaining with the parents for a long time after birth.
2. Living in the home of another species.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin nidi- (nest) + -colous (inhabiting). Ultimately from the Indo-European root sed- (to sit), which is also the source of nest, sit, chair, saddle, assess, sediment, soot, cathedral, and tetrahedron. Earliest documented use: 1902.
NOTES: Etymologically speaking, the word nidicolous refers to birds that stay in the nest due to their dependence on the parents for food and protection. But theres no reason you couldnt apply it to other species. The opposite is nidifugous (literally, fleeing the nest), leaving soon after birth.
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NIDICOLOURS - the drab earthtones of a bird's-nest in London
RIDICOLOUS - the silly situation of still living with our parents when we're 40
MIDICOLOUS - like the cloacum magnum of the South of France
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CELERITY
PRONUNCIATION: (suh-LER-i-tee)
MEANING: noun: Swiftness; speed.
ETYMOLOGY: From French célérité (promptness), from Latin celer (swift). Earliest documented use: 1483.
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ACELERITY - going nowhere fast
CLERITY - easily understood, in Brooklyn
CELERITE - 1. a mineral that comes in green stringy stalks
2. going faster and faster AND FASTER in Australia
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SYMPHYSIS
PRONUNCIATION: (SIM-fi-sis)
MEANING: noun: A growing together.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin, from Greek symphysis (growing together), from syn- (with) + phyein (to grow). Earliest documented use: 1578.
NOTES: The word is often used in anatomy to describe the fusion of two bones, cartilages, etc. It is also used for the line or junction thus formed.
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SYLPHYSIS - a sisterhood of airy wraith-like creatures (see also NYMPHYSIS)
SYMPHNYSIS - my female sib plays for the Philharmonic
SYMPHYSICS - the Unified Theory of Everything
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OPPROBRIOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (uh-PRO-bree-uhs)
MEANING: adjective: 1. Expressing strong criticism. 2. Deserving disgrace.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin opprobrium (reproach), from ob- (against) + probrum (infamy, reproach). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bher- (to carry), which also gave us bear, birth, barrow, burden, fertile, transfer, offer, suffer, euphoria, and metaphor. Earliest documented use: 1410.
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OPPROARIOUS, OPPRORIOUS - laughing out loud
UPPROBRIOUS - what you call disgraceful activity at that university in Sweden (or the city which hosts it)
OPPROBRIOUT - the umpire blew a very important call at home plate
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POLITICPRONUNCIATION: (POL-i-tik) MEANING: adjective: Tactful; shrewd. ETYMOLOGY: From Old French politique (political), from Latin politicus (political), from Greek politikos, from polites (citizen), from polis (city). Earliest documented use: 1427. _______________________________ POLITOC - an elected official who's out of step with the times POLITRIC - Sitting-room magic for Brooklyn POLITEC - a very light, very warm fabric
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COMPORT
PRONUNCIATION: (kuhm-PORT)
MEANING: verb tr.: To conduct (oneself).
verb intr.: To agree with.
ETYMOLOGY: From French comportement (behavior), from comporter (to bear), from Latin comportare (to transport), from com- (with) + portare (to carry). Ultimately from the Indo-European root per- (to lead, pass over), which also gave us support, petroleum, sport, passport, colporteur, rapporteur, deportment, Swedish fartlek, Norwegian fjord, and Sanskrit parvat (mountain). Earliest documented use: 1565.
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COWPORT - where the cattle get off the boat...
COIMPORT - ...brought into the country by more than one person
COMPART - free admission to the Guggenheim
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COMPURT "as soon as I'se turnd it on the whole dagnab thing just..."
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KAKISTOCRACY
PRONUNCIATION: (kak-i-STOK-ruh-see, kah-ki-)
MEANING: noun: Government by the least qualified or worst persons.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek kakistos (worst), superlative of kakos (bad) + -cracy (rule). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kakka-/kaka- (to defecate), which also gave us poppycock, cacophony, cacology, and cacography. Earliest documented use: 1829.
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KAKISTOCRAZY - the ultimate Bad Trip
PAKISTOCRACY - Government by Islamabad
KOKISTOCRACY - Government by Lord High Executioner
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