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SCARE-BRAINED-preparing one's Hallowe'en costume


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SCARE-BRAINED - preparing one's Hallowe'en costume

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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 another’s 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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LIEIN - strategy session for extremely partisan politicians

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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