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EFFLUVIUM

PRONUNCIATION: (i-FLOO-vee-uhm)

MEANING: noun: An unpleasant discharge, for example, fumes, vapors, or gases from waste or decaying matter.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin effluere (to flow out), from ex- (out) + fluere (to flow). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bhleu- (to swell or overflow), from which flow words such as affluent, influence, influenza, fluctuate, fluent, fluid, fluoride, flush, flux, reflux, and superfluous. profluent, mellifluous, fluvial, affluenza, and affluential. Earliest documented use: 1646.
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EFFLIVIUM - a very loud Latin poem

BFFLUVIUM - a love potion for the 21st Century

EFFLUVIRUM - a hoax remedy purported to exorcise the germs

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INEFFABLE

PRONUNCIATION: (in-EF-uh-buhl)

MEANING: adjective: 1. Incapable of being expressed: indescribable.
2. Not to be expressed: taboo.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin in- (not) + effari (to speak out), from ex- (out) + Latin fari (to speak). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bha- (to speak), which also gave us fable, fairy, fate, fame, blame, confess, and infant (literally, one unable to speak), apophasis, and confabulate. Earliest documented use: 1450.
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INEZFABLE - a short parable with a moral, written by the Aztec scribe Inez

INEFFABLUE - very sad but can't explain why...

ONE-FFABLE - eligible for Selective Service classification 1-FF

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VISAGE

PRONUNCIATION: (VIZ-ij)

MEANING: noun: Face, appearance, or expression.

ETYMOLOGY: From Old French vis (face), from Latin visus (sight, appearance), from videre (to see). Ultimately from the Indo-European root weid- (to see), which also gave us guide, wise, vision, advice, idea, story, history, previse, videlicet, vidimus, vizard, and invidious. Earliest documented use: 1303.
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VI-PAGE - about how long your 1,500-word double-spaced paper about the History of Ancient Rome should be

EISAGE - when the glaciers covered all of Europe down to Germany

AVISAGE - an herb used to flavor Roast Bird

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INEXORABLE

PRONUNCIATION: (in-EK-suhr-uh-buhl)

MEANING: adjective: Incapable of being persuaded, moved, or stopped.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin in- (not) + exorare (to prevail upon), from ex- (out) + orare (to pray, beg). Earliest documented use: 1553.
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INEXORA-BLED - hemophiliac

INEXXORABLE - the Dakota Access pipeline

INEXORABLEU - the ultimate triumph of cheese

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VERKLEMPT

PRONUNCIATION: (fuhr-KLEMT, vuhr-)

MEANING: adjective: Overcome with emotion; choked up.

ETYMOLOGY: From Yiddish farklempt (overcome with emotion), from German verklemmt (inhibited). Earliest documented use: 1991.

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OVERKLEMPT - melodramatic

VERKLE-MPG - what kind of gas milage does that new German car get?

VERKLEPT - obtained by shoplifting

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YENTZ

PRONUNCIATION: (yents)

MEANING: verb tr.: To cheat.

ETYMOLOGY: From Yiddish yentzen (to copulate). Earliest documented use: 1930.
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SYENTZ - what the partially-educated think physics and chemistry are

YEN-TP - what the Yen indians dwell in

YEN-TM - the Japanese have trademarked their currency

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Wentz- alternate of goed for shtupid people

...a little dynamic pluralism

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POTCH

PRONUNCIATION: (poch)

MEANING:
verb. tr.: To slap or spank.
noun: A slap or spanking.

ETYMOLOGY: From Yiddish patshn (to slap), of imitative origin. Earliest documented use: 1892.
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I-POTCH - worn by an Apple software pirate with a Boston accent

pH-TCH - Dummy, you got the acidity wrong

P.O.TECH - an ultra-miniaturized electronic device that is swallowed

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FUTZ

PRONUNCIATION: (fuhts)

MEANING: verb intr.
1. To waste time or to idle.
2. To meddle or fiddle with something.

ETYMOLOGY: Perhaps from Yiddish arumfartsn (to fart around), from arum- (around) + fartsn (to fart). Earliest documented use: 1932.
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FFUTZ - Those are very noisy potato chips!

HUT Z - where the Enigma codebreakers went to take a short nap when they were so tired they fell asleep at their tables

FUTV - call letters of the television station staffed by Communications majors at Fordham University

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Mutz- dog farts [false]
Cutz- cut with a spoon (because it hurtz worse)

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