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DADOLESCE = teenage parenthood


Lol, The Edge of Seventeen meets Peggy Sue Got Married

😳 I have two teenagers remaining

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LODESTAR

PRONUNCIATION: (LOAD-stahr)

MEANING: noun: Someone or something that serves as a guiding principle, model, inspiration, ambition, etc.

ETYMOLOGY: From Old English lad (way) + star. A lodestar is called so because it’s used in navigation, it shows the way. Earliest documented use: 1374.
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LODESTAIR - how you get from one mine level to another

LODESITAR- Indian music played on this instrument has a certain magnetic quality to it, don't you agree?

LODGESTAR - the Worshipful Master

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Lorde-Star- fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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ulipinous- sweet southern sass

upiginous- having a cheeky quality

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ULIGINOUS

PRONUNCIATION:
(yoo-LIJ-uh-nuhs)

MEANING:
adjective: Swampy; slimy; slippery.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin uligo (moisture). Earliest documented use: 1576.
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URLIGINOUS - generating Web addresses

UBIGINOUS - making a place somewhere

ULIGINOPUS - music for performance on bagpipes (Uillean pipes)

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SUPERBITY

PRONUNCIATION: (soo-PUHR-buh-tee)

MEANING: noun: Pride; arrogance.

ETYMOLOGY: From Middle French superbité, from superbe (superb). Earliest documented use: 1450.
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SUPERBITE - prognathism

SUBERBITY - bedroom-community-ness

LUPERBITY - wolfishness

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superkity- currency of skittles when playing Exploding Kittens

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ANALPHABETIC

PRONUNCIATION: (an-al-fuh-BET-ik)

MEANING: adjective: 1. Illiterate. 2. Not alphabetical.
noun: An illiterate person.

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek analphabetos (not knowing the alphabet), from an- (not) + alphabetos (alphabet), from alpha + beta. Earliest documented use: 1876.
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ANAL-HABETIC - communicating via flatulence

ANIL-PHABETIC - purple prose (occasionally other colors)

AN-ALPH-ACETIC - a Sacred River of vinegar

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Anolphabetic- Suffering from a decrease in an estrogenic constituent of LAD causing mensopause discomfort

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APPETENCE

PRONUNCIATION: (A-puh-tuhns)

MEANING: noun: A strong desire or inclination.

ETYMOLOGY: From French appétence (desire), from Latin appetentia, from appetere (to seek after), ad- (to) + petere (to seek). Ultimately from the Indo-European root pet- (to rush or fly), which also gave us appetite, feather, petition, compete, perpetual, propitious, impetuous, petulant, pteridology, pinnate, and lepidopterology. Earliest documented use: 1610.
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APPETENSE - whenever I'm worried, eating loses its appeal

APPENTENCE - this time it's OK, but if it happens again I'll feel bad about it

APPETENUCE - its square is some of the squares of the other toes ides

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