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Topic Options #81564 - 09/23/02 03:30 PM more word wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858 Desipience - silliness. "Sapiens" = wise . Tsuwm had the word, but didn't give derivation. Top #81565 - 09/23/02 03:48 PM Re: more word wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858 Divagate - to stray, wander. I do it all the time. From dis + vagare Top #81566 - 09/23/02 03:58 PM Re: more word wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858 Divaricate = to stretch apart, put asunder. Kehre die Beinchen nicht in die Höhe, naughty Jove might be watching. But when I looked up "prevaricate" I was surpised that the Latin meant "walk crookedly"/ Top #81567 - 09/23/02 04:14 PM Re: Di/Pre Varicate Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13803 MW runs em both back to varicare, to straddle. Top #81568 - 09/23/02 04:23 PM Re: Di/Pre Varicate wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858 Dear Faldage: I used to use slit-trench varicare-fully. Top #81569 - 09/23/02 05:43 PM Re:eristic wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858 From the goddess of Discord, Eris. Pertaining to controversy, quarrelsome. Top #81570 - 09/23/02 06:12 PM Re:flagitious wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858 1 Cr, 5: 9 - 13 Christians are to avoid the familiar conversation of fellow-Christians that are notoriously wicked, and under just censure for their flagitious practices. Top #81571 - 09/23/02 08:00 PM Re:flagitious WhitmanO'Neill Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/13/01 Posts: 4189 Loc: Rio Grande, Cape May County, N... Dr. Bill, don't get caught flagrante delicto with your flagitous practices! Top #81572 - 10/03/02 09:47 PM Re:synectics wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858 From "engines of our ingenuity" Modern engineering designers are up to an odd piece of work. It's called synectics. The word is Greek. It means binding different elements, and it fits invention. We invent when we see relations that other people have missed. The word synectics was coined by William Gordon in 1961. Gordon points out that putting three people in a room doesn't mean trippling their effect. Three people with IQ's of 150 aren't apt to perform like one person with an IQ of 450. You have to do more than put people in the same space to make them do what they're capable of doing. Top Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. (have been consolidated into a single forum above) ------   Words from medicine   Beheading words   Meta-words   Words from classical mythology   Animal Safari   Words with unusual etymologies   Eponyms or words derived from people's names.   Loanwords from German   English as a global language Moderator:  Jackie  Print Topic Switch to Threaded Mode View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts Forum Stats 8947 Members 16 Forums 13866 Topics 222207 Posts Max Online: 3341 @ 12/09/11 02:15 PM Newest Members michor, Daksh1, geoffhargreaves, Guadalupe, may2point0 8947 Registered Users Who's Online 1 registered (1 invisible), 42 Guests and 3 Spiders online. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters (30 Days) wofahulicodoc 65 LukeJavan8 53 may2point0 19 Tromboniator 3 geoffhargreaves 1 jheem 1 Top Posters wwh 13858 Faldage 13803 Jackie 11613 tsuwm 10538 LukeJavan8 8436 Buffalo Shrdlu 7210 wofahulicodoc 6794 AnnaStrophic 6511 Wordwind 6296 of troy 5400

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