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opine

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to give a formal opinion

The Scientist opined that further research needs to be done in order to test the hypothesis of Human Created Climate Change.

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mirabile dictu

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a wonder to relate

Mirabile dictu, the polar ice caps on Mars are also melting due to the Martian’s and their damned SUVs. Fuck you Greta von Cretinberg!

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epochal
EE pok al

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extremely significant or groundbreaking

Perhaps the most epochal discovery in Medicine was that of Penicillin in 1927 by Alexander Fleming.

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tergiversation

tur JIV er say shun

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a reversal of opinion

Blinken’s tergiversation on Israeli support is costing us an important ally.

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Jacobinical

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characterized by violent revolution

If it occurs, the 2024 fraudulent re-election of Biden will have Jacobinical effects in the Disunited States of America.

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imputation

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to blame unjustly

The imputation that Republicans caused illegal immigration is hilarious.

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brachyphallic

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Having a small penis

Men who drive loud, unnecessarily large trucks are usually brachyphallic.

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perfidy

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a deliberate breach of a trusted relationship

Keegan’s perfidy to Kate could only end in divorce.

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voluptuarian

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one who is overly concerned with luxury and sensuality.

Amy’s brother David was a highly likable voluptuarian.

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callow

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lacking in adult sophistication
Hamas protesters are callow.

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cacozealot

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an evil protester

The Palestinian protesters are indoctrinated cacozealots.

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gainsay

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to deny or ignore

One cannot gainsay Ali’s greatness.

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vestigial

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remaining and imperfect, or atrophied

Even our vestigial freedoms are now at risk.

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usurious

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criminally high rates of interest

Current bank loan rates are usurious.

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solipsism

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the philosophical concept that only one’s mind is sure to exist
“you and only you exist”

California is largely populated by solipsistic zombies.

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patently

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obviously

The Government patently manipulates the data concerning inflation.

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mulct

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to leech from or derive the essence from

One can mulct a message of unity at the RNC.

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callomaniac

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a person under the illusion that they are beautiful
Why are so many old women such callomaniacs?

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priapic

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phallic

I first thought his meeting her was a priapic imperative.

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eschew

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to do without

Young people today often eschew having families.

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salvific

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characterized by saving

Trump is running on his potentially salvific merit.

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cantabank

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a second rate singer

Taylor Swift is not only a cantabank, but also a Satanist.

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fillipic

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a speech intended to incite anger and emotion

Demosthenes hurled fillipics at his fellow Greeks concerning the aggressions of Phillip of Macedon.

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subsume

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the act of a superset absorbing a subset

Quantum mechanics subsumes classical mechanics.

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nomenklatura

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the elite of the Soviet or similar despotic or autocratic society

The Ukrainian nomenklatura is pocketing hundreds of billions of our tax dollars while girlishly, screeching for the continuance of a long, lost war against Russia. Fuck them.

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creodont

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a primitive small brained animal

My riposte to the taxi grabbing Karen was to sweetly remark, “What a churlish little creodont you are?” She smiled at the “compliment”…lol.

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mollifying

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making more agreeable, being conciliatory

Biden is busy mollifying Students by forgiving their school loans.

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obsequy

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excessive eagerness to please

The obsequy rendered by the Teachers Pet was noticed by the class bully.

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solatium

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a payment to someone for inconveniencing them

Travis and Shana should receive a 40000 dollar solatium from their niggling HOA.

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solatium

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a payment to someone for inconveniencing them

Travis and Shana should receive a 40000 dollar solatium from the niggling HOA.

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dunderwhelp

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a detestable numbskull

Biden is the quintessential dunderwhelp. When I saw his rage at the SOU the other night I immediately thought I was veiwing vacuum energy from Biden’s Barren Brain.

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primogeniture

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the right that the first born legitimate son is the heir

Dad kind of screwed the notion of primogeniture.

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schtum

shtoom

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to keep silent

On this problem I will remain schtum.

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fractious

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unruly

Many fractious youths end up in prison.

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stultification

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the act of making someone or something appear absurd and foolish

Every Biden speech is another supreme act of stultification…”pause for applause.”

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parlous

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fraught with danger or peril

The next decade is parlous for the US.

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frenchified

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to catch a venereal disease

The college grads went to Europe to “find themselves “ and become frenchified.

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a group of turtles and a group of of manta rays

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a bale of turtles, a fever of manta rays

In Wakatobi we saw a bale of turtles and a fever of manta rays

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