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Too much stress results in distress. Or should that be 'dystress'? Agreed...
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NULLIBIETY
PRONUNCIATION: (nuh-luh-BY-uh-tee)
MEANING: noun: The state of being or existing nowhere.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin nullibi (nowhere), from nullus (null) + ibi (here, there). Earliest documented use: 1668. The opposite is ubiety. _______________________________
GULLIBIETY - the purchase of seagoing birds
NULLIBRIETY - teetotalling (compare NUNLIBIETY: Sister's overdoing the sacramental wine...)
NULLIBILETY - just can't do anything well
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Lullibiety- the condition or quality of being calm
Nullidiety- diet free
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Lullibiety- the condition or quality of being calm Good one!
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EXCARNATION
PRONUNCIATION: (eks-kahr-NAY-shuhn)
MEANING: noun: 1. The removing of flesh, especially from a corpse before burial. 2. The supposed separation of the soul from the body at death.
ETYMOLOGY: From excarnate, from Latin excarnare (to remove flesh), from caro (flesh). Earliest documented use: 1847. _____________________________
EXTARNATION - swearing has been officially banned
EXCORNATION - I feel so much better now after visiting my podiatrist
EXCARIATION - when the dentist takes care of my cavities (Query: what's left when you remove a hole?)
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Exzarnation- officially wrecked
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DYSPHEMISM
PRONUNCIATION: (DIS-fuh-miz-em)
MEANING: noun: The substitution of a harsher, deprecating, or offensive term in place of a relatively neutral term.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek dys- (bad) + -phemism (as in euphemism). Earliest documented use: 1884. The opposite is euphemism.
NOTES: Examples include “death tax” for “estate tax” and “snail mail” for “paper mail”. ____________________________
DY-SPHERISM - belief in two suns
DAYS-PHEMISM - Women's Lib while the sun shines
DYS-HEMISM - show disrespect for the claim that stocks follow the length of women's skirts, with a six-month lag
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ZYSPHEMISM- to speak with a teutonic accent (comparable to any found in a Mel Brooks movie)
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NOCEBO
PRONUNCIATION: (no-SEE-bo)
MEANING: noun: A substance producing harmful effects in someone because it is believed to be harmful, but which in reality is harmless.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin nocebo (I will harm), from nocere (to harm). Modeled after its antonym placebo (I will please). Earliest documented use: 1961. ___________________________
NICE, BO - well done, Ms Derek
NO CEO - the head of the company just got canned
NO SEBO - a first-class gringo trying to say "I don't understand" in Spanish
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DOTARD
PRONUNCIATION: (DOH-tuhrd)
MEANING: noun: One whose mental faculties have deteriorated, especially due to old age.
ETYMOLOGY: From Middle English doten (to be foolish). Earliest documented use: 1393. ____________________________
DON'TARD - inevitably says "No!"
DEOTARD - worn at a Passion Ballet
DOPARD - a biochemist-hedonist
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