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LAVE
PRONUNCIATION: (layv)
MEANING: noun: Residue or remainder. verb tr.: 1. To wash or bathe. 2. To flow. 3. To pour.
ETYMOLOGY: For noun: From Old English laf (remainder). Earliest documented use: 971. For verb: From Old English lafian (to pour or wash), from Latin lavare (to wash). Earliest documented use: 450. ___________________________________________
FLAVE - taste
LLAVE - wash your South American beast of burden
GLAVE - medieval weapon, basically a 50-cm blade at the end of a 2-meter pole
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ARMIPOTENT
PRONUNCIATION: (ahr-MIP-uh-tuhnt)
MEANING: adjective: Strong in war, battle, contest, etc.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin arma (arms) + potent (powerful). Earliest documented use: 1405. ______________________
AM I POTENT - do I have erectile dysfunction
ARMIPATENT - if you make weapons you owe me a royalty
ACMI POTENT - Wile E Coyote has a powerful supplier
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LEGATION
PRONUNCIATION: (li-GAY-shuhn)
MEANING: noun: 1. A diplomatic mission ranking below an embassy. 2. The premises of such a mission. 3. The diplomat and staff of such a mission.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin legare (to depute). Earliest documented use: 1425. ___________________________
LEGOTION - conversion to brightly-colored interlocking bricks
LEGATHON - a trial that goes on for days without interruption
LE CATION - an ion with a positive charge, first discovered and studied at the Sorbonne in Paris
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LIPOGRAPHY
PRONUNCIATION: (li-POG-ruh-fee, ly-)
MEANING: noun: The omission of a letter or syllable in writing.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek lipo- (lacking) + -graphy (writing). Earliest documented use: 1888.
NOTES: In spite of what it sounds like, lipography is not writing with lips. Instead, it’s the omission, inadvertent or on purpose, of a letter or syllable in writing. _____________________
SLIPOGRAPHY - creating catalogs of women's undergarments
LIMOGRAPHY - making images of citrus fruit
LIMPOGRAPHY - documenting asymmetrical gaits
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RIBALD
PRONUNCIATION: (RI-buhld, RAI-bald)
MEANINGG: adjective: Relating to coarse humor of sexual nature. noun: A person who uses such language or humor.
ETYMOLOGY: From Anglo-French, from Old French riber (to be wanton), from riban (to be in heat or to copulate). Earliest documented use: 1250. ___________________________
EIBALD - (colloq.) looked at
RIBAND - decorated with awards
RIBALED - tied into large, heavy bundles once again
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NOSOGRAPHY
PRONUNCIATION: (no-SOG-ruh-fee)
MEANING: noun: The systematic description of diseases.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek noso- (disease) + -graphy (writing). Earliest documented use: 1654. ____________________________
NOOS-OGRAPHY - making images of hangings
NO-SONG-RAPHY - making images of choral music is forobidden
NASOGRAPHY - making images of large probosci
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AENEOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (ay-EE-nee-uhs, EE-nee-uhs)
MEANING. adjective: Bronze- or brass-colored.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin aes (bronze, brass, copper). Earliest documented use: 1808. ___________________________
ARNEOUS - like the composer of Rule Britannia
GENEOUS - very smart, very capable spirit who should nevertheless avoid lamps
AMENEOUS - giving rise to widespread murmurs of agreement
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ARGENT
PRONUNCIATION: (AHR-juhnt)
MEANING: adjective: Of the color silver or white.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin argentum (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, and French argent (money). The word also appears in the chemical symbol for silver (Ag) and in the name of the country Argentina where Rio de la Plata (literally, river of silver) flows. Earliest documented use: 1500. ______________________
WARGENT - Five-star General
PARGENT - a consistent but uninspiring golfer
AROGENT - haughty. And he can't spell worth a damn, either.
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STRAMINEOUS
PRONUNCIATION: (struh-MIN-ee-uhs)
MEANING: adjective: 1. Straw-colored. 2. Of or relating to straw. 3. Like straw: Valueless.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin stramen (straw). Earliest documented use: 1624. __________________________
SCRAMINEOUS - engendering an abrupt dismissal
STRAYINEOUS - attractive to small feral animals
STRAPINEOUS - insistent that everyone use a seat belt
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RUBICUND
PRONUNCIATION: (ROO-bi-kuhnd)
MEANING: adjective: Red or reddish.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin rubere (to be red). Ultimately from the Indo-European root reudh- (red), which also gave us red, rouge, ruby, ruddy, rubella, robust, rambunctious, corroborate, roborant, raddle, robustious, rufescent, and russet. Earliest documented use: 1425. _______________________________
RUBI FUND - a collection of money for the purpose of buying red jewels
RUBIC AND - a partnership of puzzlemakers, one famous and the other anonymous
RUE BICUND - Bicund Street, in Paris
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