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Aug 4, 2016
This week’s themeVerbs This week’s words calumniate floccipend exonerate foozle propitiate 
“On the road to success, there are no shortcuts.” (though there are overpasses)
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with Anu Gargfoozle
PRONUNCIATION:
(FOO-zuhl)
MEANING:
verb tr., intr.: To botch or bungle, especially to make a poor shot in golf. noun: A botched attempt at something. ETYMOLOGY:
Perhaps from German dialect fuseln (to work badly). Earliest documented use: 1857.
USAGE:
“Did Butterworth foozle the case or what?” Michael Underwood; Murder Made Absolute; Ian Henry Publications; 1975. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
America has changed over the years. But these values my grandparents taught
me -- they haven't gone anywhere. They're as strong as ever; still
cherished by people of every party, every race, every faith. They live on
in each of us. What makes us American, what makes us patriots, is what's in
here. That's what matters. And that's why we can take the food and music
and holidays and styles of other countries, and blend it into something
uniquely our own. That's why we can attract strivers and entrepreneurs from
around the globe to build new factories and create new industries here.
That's why our military can look the way it does -- every shade of
humanity, forged into common service. That's why anyone who threatens our
values, whether fascists or communists or jihadists or homegrown
demagogues, will always fail in the end. -Barack Obama, US President (b. 4
Aug 1961) Source
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