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BRAZEN
PRONUNCIATION: (BRAY-zuhn)
MEANING: adjective: 1. Shamelessly bold. 2. Made of or relating to brass. verb tr.: To face an embarrassing or difficult situation in a shamelessly bold manner.
ETYMOLOGY: From Old English braes (brass). Earliest documented use: 1000. ___________________________________
BLAZEN - how the outlaws galloped into town with their gunza
BRATEN - the wurst possible Viennese sausage
BRAKE N - - how to slow down the fourteenth car of the train
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AURICOMOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (au-RI-kuh-muhs)
MEANING:. adjective: Relating to golden hair.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin auricomus, from aurum (gold) + coma (hair). Earliest documented use: 1864. _______________________________________
AURICOROUS - golden-throated voices singing together
AGRICOMOUS - your typical Roman farmer's rodent
AFRICOMOUS - Sherlock Holmes' Giant Rat of Sahara
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PHILARGYRY
PRONUNCIATION: (fil-ARJ-uh-ree)
MEANING: noun: The love of money; greed.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek phil- (love) + argyros (silver). Ultimately from the Indo-European root arg- (to shine; white) that is also the source of argue (from Latin arguere, to make clear), argillaceous (clayey), and French argent (money). The word also appears in the chemical symbol for silver (Ag) and in the name of the country Argentina (where flows Rio de la Plata, Spanish for “river of silver”). Earliest documented use: 1529. __________________________________
PHIL-ARMY RY. - train taking fans from Philadelphia to West Point
PHILARGYRO - pile the makings into our submarine sandwich at that stand next to the Liberty Bell
CHILARGYRY - ...keep the sandwiches in the refrigerator till we get there
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TINPOT
PRONUNCIATION: (TIN-pot)
MEANING: adjective: Unimportant; of little worth.
ETYMOLOGY: Alluding to a tin pot, in quality or sound, broadly from a reference to tin as a base metal compared to precious metals. Earliest documented use: 1838. ___________________________________
INPOT - your status after calling a bet
LIN-POT - composer Manuel Miranda's beer-belly
TIN PLOT - one kind of mining survey
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LEAD BALLOON
PRONUNCIATION: (led buh-LOON)
MEANING: noun: A complete failure.
ETYMOLOGY: From lead (a heavy metal), from Old English lead + balloon, from Italian dialectal ballone (large ball), augmentative of balla (ball). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bhel- (to blow or swell), which also gave us ball, boll, bole, bulk, bowl, boulevard, boulder, ballot, folly, and fool. Earliest documented use: 1924. _____________________________________________
PLEAD BALLOON - dialog from Judge Parker comic strip
LEAD GAL LOON - the matriarch of the loon flock
LEAN BALLOON - a zeppelin
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IRREFUTABLE
PRONUNCIATION: (ir-ih-FYOO-tuh-buhl, ih-REF-yuh-tuh-buhl)
MEANING: adjective: Impossible to deny or disprove; indisputable.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin in- (not) + refutare (to rebut). Ultimately from the Indo-European root bhau- (to strike), which also gave us refute, beat, button, halibut, buttress, confute, prebuttal, and surrebuttal. Earliest documented use: 1620. ____________________________________
MR REFUTABLE - never made a statement that couldn't be disproved
IRREFUL, ABLE - angry but competent
IRREPUTABLE - nobody anywhere knows anything about him !
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AMNESIA
PRONUNCIATION: (am-NEE-zhuh)
MEANING: noun: Loss of memory or a gap in one’s memory.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin amnesia, from Greek amnesia (forgetfulness), from a- (not) + mimneskesthai (to remember). Ultimately from the Indo-European root men- (to think), which also gave us mind, mental, mention, automatic, mania, money, praying mantis, monument, music, amnesty, mantra, remonstrate, monish, and mantic. Earliest documented use: 1786. _______________________
NAMNESIA - inability to learn the lessons of history
DAMNESIA - complaint of a football player after multiple ACL injuries
AMNOSIA - "I poke around other people's business more than you do"
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PSYCHOGENIC
PRONUNCIATION: (sy-kuh-JEN-ik)
MEANING: adjective: Originating in the mind (having a psychological rather than a physiological cause).
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek psycho- (mind) + -genic (producing). Earliest documented use: 1897. ____________________________
PSYCHO GENIE - Aladdin's companion, such as voiced by Robin Williams
PAY C.H.O.- GENIC - This new DNA will let you breed corn with a higher carbohydrate content, but it'll cost you
P.S. YECHOGENIC! - Oh, and another thing: that's disgusting !
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POLYDIPSIAPRONUNCIATION: (paw-lee-DIP-see-uh) MEANING: noun: Excessive or abnormal thirst. ETYMOLOGY: From Greek poly- (much, many) + dipsa (thirst). Earliest documented use: 1661. _________________________________ POLYPIPSIA - misreading your card as a ten when it's really an eight POLYDIP ASIA - an Indonesian RijstafelPOLY DISSIA - that parrot just cussed you out !
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PROPENSITY
PRONUNCIATION: (pruh-PEN-suh-tee)
MEANING: noun: An inclination to behave in a particular way
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin pro- (toward) + pendere (to weigh). Ultimately from the Indo-European root (s)pen- (to draw, to spin), which also gave us pendulum, spider, pound, pansy, pendant, ponder, appendix, penthouse, depend, spontaneous, vilipend, pendulous, filipendulous, equipoise, perpend, pensive, and floccipend. Earliest documented use: 1550. ________________________________
PR OPEN SITE - where publicists and agents are welcome
PROP ENMITY - I can fly any jet plane made, but I just don't get along with the other kind...
PRODENSITY - I like the massive ones
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