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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. Don’t confuse ingenious with ingenuous even though both words are from the same root.
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PINGENIOUS - bowling champion

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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