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ARCTOPHILE

PRONUNCIATION: (ARK-tuh-fyl)

MEANING: noun: Someone who is very fond of teddy bears or collects them.

ETYMOLOGY: From Greek arctos (bear) + -phile (lover). Earliest documented use: 1970.
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ARC-TOP-TILE - cover your bathroom floor with the image of rainbows

ARCHOPHILE - lover of the Place d'Étoile in Paris

ARCTOCHILE - the coldest region in South America

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MAKE-WORK

PRONUNCIATION: (MAYK-wuhrk)

MEANING: noun: Work of little value, devised mainly to keep someone busy.

ETYMOLOGY: From make, from Old English macian (to make) + work, from Old English worc (work). Earliest documented use: 1911.
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FAKE-WORK - like Wally in Dilbert

MANE-WORK - currying a horse

MAKE-WOK - manufacture Chinese cooking utensil

MAGE-WORK - spellcasting

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ADHOCRACY

PRONUNCIATION: (ad-HAWK-ruh-see)

MEANING: noun:
1. A flexible, adaptable organization that lacks a formal structure.
2. An organization characterized by lack of planning, responding to problems as they emerge rather than anticipating and avoiding them.

ETYMOLOGY: Coined by Warren Bennis and Philip Slater in their book The Temporary Society. From Latin ad hoc (for this, i.e. for a particular purpose only) + -cracy (rule). Earliest documented use: 1966.
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MADHOCRACY - government by jumping on a horse and riding off in all directions

ADHOCRACE - quick runoff after an elected official retires unexpectedly

A.B.HOCRACY - government by Bachelors of Arts

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meme

PRONUNCIATION:
(meem)

MEANING:
noun:
1. An element of culture, idea, behavior, etc., that’s transmitted from person to person.
2. An image, video clip, etc. often with amusing caption, that’s transmitted virally on the Internet.

ETYMOLOGY:
From Greek mimeisthai (to imitate, copy); coined by the biologist Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene in 1976.
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MOME - the kind of rath often found grabing out

MEMSE - a Parisian describing a borogove

MEMES- The sound of children waving their hands and begging to be called upon

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TEETOTAL

PRONUNCIATION: (tee-TOH-tuhl)

MEANING: adjective:
1. Practicing abstinence from alcohol.
2. Total; absolute.

ETYMOLOGY: Coined by Richard Turner of Preston, England, in a speech calling for total abstinence, apparently as an emphatic form of the word total. Earliest documented use: 1833.
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TWEETOTAL - utterly and unbearably cute, dainty, and quaint

TEYTOTAL - eight (the number of detective stories published by Elizabeth Mackintosh under her pseudonym)

FEE TO TAL - amount for Soviet chess champion Mikhial to play

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BOOBOISIE

PRONUNCIATION: (boo-bwa-ZEE)

MEANING: noun: Ignorant or uncultured people regarded as a class.

ETYMOLOGY: Coined by H.L. Mencken, as a blend of boob (a stupid person) + bourgeoisie (the middle class), from French bourgeois, from Latin burgus (fortress, fortified town). Earliest documented use: 1922.
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BOOBO I SEE - Send In the Clowns

BO OBOISTE - Ms Derek really rocks on the double-reeds

BOOBO ISLE - colony for exiled victims of the Plague

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Boo!poisie- Suprise poetry, read with a musical-aire

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BOO, BOISE - Happy Halloween, all you folks in Idaho!

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EKISTICS

PRONUNCIATION: (i-KIS-tiks)

MEANING: noun: The study of human settlements, drawing on such disciplines as city planning, architecture, sociology, etc.

ETYMOLOGY: Coined by Constantinos A. Doxiadis (1913-1975), Greek architect and urban planner, from Greek oikistikos (of settlement), from oikizein (to settle), from oikos (house). Earliest documented use: 1968.
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EEKISTICS - the study of mice

EXISTICS - the study of being

E-LISTICS - high-falutin' name for programming in LISP (name derived from LISt Processing)

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Epistics- the quantifiable likelihood that there will be an adrenal medullary secretory response to stimulation of the medulla oblongata

Epistics- what mama knows

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