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ZOOLATRY
PRONUNCIATION: (zo-OL-uh-tree)
MEANING: noun:
1. The worship of animals.
2. Extreme devotion to animals, for example, to one’s pets.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek zoo- (animal) + -latry (worship). Earliest documented use: 1784.
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AZO-OLATRY - worship of nitrogen
BOOLATRY - worship of simple logical concepts ( and, or, not, both )
ZOO, LARRY? - Curly and Moe are thinking of visiting the captive animals on display
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CRYPTOGENIC
PRONUNCIATION: (krip-tuh-JEN-ik)
MEANING: adjective: Of unknown origin or cause.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek crypto- (secret, hidden) + -genic (producing, produced by). Earliest documented use: 1873.
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CRYPTOGENIE - Robin Williams blue cartoon character role in Aladdin at its most obscure
CRY "PETOGENIC" - claim loudly that something is the origin of domesticated animals
CRAPTOGENIC - describing the source of all b******t
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SUBLINEATE - to underline.
S'BLIMEY MATE (contraction of "May Jesus blame me") - oath used in parts of 19th-century London.
DUBLINATE (adj) - pertaining to the style of James Joyce and his imitators.
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PROPRIOCEPTION
PRONUNCIATION: (pro-pree-uh/oh-SEP-shuhn)
MEANING: noun: The awareness of location of parts of one’s body.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin proprius (one’s own) + reception, from recipere (to receive), from capere (to take). Earliest documented use: 1906.
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PROPRIOCEPT-ICON - how you recognize the applet that displays the location of your body parts
PRO PRIORCEPTION - in favor of picking up an earlier broadcast
PRO PRINCEPTION - a professional campaign director to facilitate the ascension of the eldest son to the throne
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MACROSMOTICPRONUNCIATION: (mak-rahz-MAT-ik) MEANING: adjective: Having a well-developed sense of smell. ETYMOLOGY: From Greek macro- (large) + osmatic, from French osmatique, from Greek osme (smell). Earliest documented use: 1890. ___________________________________ MACRO-S'MORIC - like very large cookies made of Graham crackers and chocolate bits and marshmallows MACRO-SMOOTIC - longer than the Harvard Bridge in Boston (which is 364.4-and-one-ear Smoots in length) MACH-OSMOTIC - diffusing through a semi-permeable membrane at supersonic speed
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PHOTOPHOBIA
PRONUNCIATION: (fo-tuh-FO-bee-uh)
MEANING: noun: An abnormal sensitivity to light.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek photo- (light) + -phobia (fear). Earliest documented use: 1772.
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PROTOPHOBIA - a fear that is as yet only half-formed
PHOBOPHOBIA - what Franklin D Roosevelt was warning about with his admonition "The only thing we have to fear is Fear itself"
PHONOPHOBIA - fear of the needle shrieking while skittering across an old 78-rpm record
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AMUSIA
PRONUNCIATION: (ay-MYOO-zee-uh)
MEANING: noun: The inability to recognize, reproduce, or appreciate music.
ETYMOLOGY: From Greek a- (not) + mousike (music), from Mousa (Muse). Earliest documented use: 1890.
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AMUSIAL - not having a shortstop, in St Louis
CAMUSIA - strangeness (just ask a scholar of French literature)
"AM USA !" - said Uncle Sam when he was just a nephew
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GUSTATORY
PRONUNCIATION: (GUHS-tuh-TOR-ee)
MEANING: adjective: Relating to the sense of taste.
ETYMOLOGY: From Latin gustare (to taste). Earliest documented use: 1684.
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JUSTATORY - dismissive pre-Revoutionary-War term for anyone sympathetic with the British
GESTATORY - pertaining to pregnancy
ANGUSTATORY - beef-flavored
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