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mutatis mutandi

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minor details have been changed but the main point remains

Concerning James Joyce’s Ulysses, mutatis mutandi, the hero’s name is Leopold Bloom.

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Xanadu

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a place of idyllic beauty where Kubla Kahn built his pleasure dome in Coleridge’s poem

I live in Xanadu Key.

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hardscrabble

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adj ch by barely eking out an existence

The hardscrabble life depicted in The Grapes of Wrath is painful to read.

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supererogatory

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superfluous in a perjorative sense

Biden’s comments about any matter are by definition supererogatory.

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melliloquent

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honey tongued
Satan is melliloquent.

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endue

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to endow with honors

The brave Veteran was endued with the Medal of Honor.

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attenuate

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to stretch out or prolong

The obviously spurious Russian Collusion probe was attenuated by Schumer throughout Trump’s entire presidency.

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bellibone

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a woman of exceptional beauty

Racquel Welch was the quintessential bellibone.

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daedal

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ingeniously inventive

The Fetal Celltrode was deadal.

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harrow

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to distress one’s mind

The harrow of my unemployment took a permanent mental toll upon me.

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mendaciloquent

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skilled at lying

Biden is mendaciloquent.

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Xanthippe

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Socrates’ shrewish wife

Nancy Pelosi nee Xanthippe.

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tendentious

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biased

No-one believes the tendentious Main Stream Media any longer.

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Attican

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classically elegant and simple as of Athens

The Proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem is positively Attican.

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imbue

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to soak or permeate

The toga was imbued with Caesar’s blood.

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belluine

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beast-like , brutal

Belluine Blacks are the rule rather than the exception.

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damascene

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to decorate with wavy lines

The damascene walls of the aquarium made the visitors sea-sick.

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hecatomb

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a huge 100 oxen sacrifice to the Greek gods

The hecatomb one must withstand to become a Gold Medalist is daunting.

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mendicant

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a beggar

Mendicants now flood the beautiful, expensive streets of San Francisco.

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wuthering

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moving forcefully

Heathcliff and Cathy met on the Moors swept by the wuthering winds.

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trenchant

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penetrating

The Teachers Board withered at the parents trenchant criticisms.

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auspices

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patronage

Dvorak composed the New World Symphony under the auspices of Jeannette Thurber, the urinal cake heiress.

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contronym

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a word that is its own antonym

Bolt means to secure as well as run free and is a contronym.

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belomancy

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divination with darts or arrows by Assyrians and Babylonians

St. Sebastian was a study in belomancy by all appearances.

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dap

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to dip gently onto the surface of the water

The dove’s feather dapped onto the pool.

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bema

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a ceremonial raised platform

The priest gave the homily from the bema.

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auto-da-fe

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burning at the stake

Another Joan of Arc auto-da-fe

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avatars

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high priests or demi-gods

Green New Deal avatars proclaim the worlds end in a decade…lol.

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quiddity

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the essence of something

The quidditiy of Socialism is stupidity.

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truculent

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bellicose , ready to fight

China’s truculent displays in Taiwan should be heeded and denounced by the world collectively.

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wontless

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unaccustomed

The Queen is wontless with respect to poverty.

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meretricious

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looking like a whore

The meretricious black girls twerked on top of the destroyed Chicago police car.

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hector

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to bully and badger

Jimmy Creasel hectored Niles.

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berm

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a narrow strip of grass or path beside a road

The City Mowers attacked the berm in a cloud of dust along Highway 1.

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dapocaginous

dop oh cah giness

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mean spirited, heartless

The belluine dapocaginous black youth beat to death old Chinese woman.

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avuncular

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ch by behavior of a benevolent uncle

Biden’s sniffing little girls hair is not avuncular, but fucking creepy.

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pendragon

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the chief leader , King Arthur’s father

Kim Jo Yung is the pendragon of North Korea.

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turpitude

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moral depravity

The depth of Bill Clinton’s turpitude was conveniently covered over by Epstein’s so-called suicide.

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wizened

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shriveled and dried up

The 80 year old beach bum was wizened as a prune.

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meritocracy

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rule by the best

We are no longer a meritocracy but a stultocracy.

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hegemony

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predominance

USA hegemony no longer exists.

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beshrew

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to wish harm on

I beshrew Biden, Pelosi, Schumer, AOC, and HRC.

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bield

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to shelter a person

I will always bield my children with my life.

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becket

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a device to hold something in place

The becket on the boom broke and swept the sailor overboard.

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kemp

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a champion warrior or athlete in Scotland Rod Strachan is a kemp.

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animadversions

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adverse criticisms

if you cannot handle animadversions, then don’t go into politics.

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wistful

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having an unfulfilled yearning

I am wistful about seeing the Indian Ocean sea-life.

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metempsychosis

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the passing of the soul from one body to another

Metempsychosis is bullshit.

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heliotrope

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reddish purple

The helliotropic rash spread to his chest.

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debellate

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to conquer through battle

Hannibal debellated the Roman legions at Cannae.

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belletristic

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speech or writing more interested in literary quality than substance

Belletristic writing was popular in the letters amongst politicians in the 1850s.

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esurient

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voraciously greedy

Bezos while rich is an esurient prick.

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co-opt

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to appropriate something that is not yours for ones own use

The Bolsheviks co-opted city mansions for the desperate peasants.

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winsome

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charming

The winsome Princess was the belle of the ball.

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metutials

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small irritating chores that must be done first

The metutial Morning shave sucks.

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birse

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injury of someone by crowding pressure

The New York subways birse passengers all the time.

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hercynian

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of a mountain range covered with forests of pines
The hercynian range of near Snowmass was always so beautiful.

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decoct

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to prepare by boiling

The CBD solution was decocted from the cannabis.

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parti pris

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preconceived bias

The Green Book dealt with parti pris.

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dissemble

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to conceal ones true feelings

At SLOB I dissembled my hatred.

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alterity

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the state of being different

My alterity made me a loner.

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bellicose

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war like

North Korea is always bellicose.

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hermeneutical

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ch by interpretation

The hermeneutical analysis of Revelations is hotly debated.

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microlipet

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someone who gets upset over trivial things

After all she has gone through, Lele is an angst ridden microlipet.

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weltschmerz

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world weariness

Covid has caused a universal weltschmerz.

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birsle

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to warm thoroughly

After all day in the snow he birsled by the fire

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haptic

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pertaining to the sense of touch

The haptics of the new keyboard suck.

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blabagogy

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a criminal environment

We need to refund police to deal with blabagogy.

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hamartophobia

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a fear of sinning

I have hamartophobia.

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weir

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a low dam across a river to catch fish

Weirs are illegal now.

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misomaniac

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one who hates everything

Ilhan Omar is an ugly souled misomaniac.

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haetera

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a greek concubine

The clergy of Tudor England all kept haetera and paid for bisphorics.

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doctrinaire

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maintaining a stubborn attitude towards ones views

The doctrinaire attitude of the Democrats will cost them.

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bereft

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completely deprived of

Serial Killers are bereft of morality.

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dedans

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tennis court spectators

The dedans heads pivoted back and firth during the lengthy Borg volley.

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beneficence

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goodness or kindness

None question Amy’s beneficence.

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Boeotian

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dull and stupid

Boeotian Biden continues to raise the bar of stupidity.

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amyctic

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itchy and irritating

I threw away the amyctic wool underwear.

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misoneist

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one who hates new things

Luddites are misoneists. at heart.

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gnathonic

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flattering and deceitful

Iago is gnathonic with Othello.

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weal

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ones vitality

Nadh tablets improve my weal.

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epithets

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derogatory names

Brandon is now an epithet.

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hieratic

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used by priests

The Sacraments are hieratic.

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teratoid

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monstrous or misshapen

The teratoid Quasimodo scrambled up to the Belfry.

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fustian

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pompous or pretentious

Frasier is fustian.

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hierophant

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high priest

The Satanic hierophant sacrificed the child.

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bongre

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with good will

The Build Back Better Bill was created bongre, but ended up after all the amendments being an utter disaster.

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misprision

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the unintentional failure to perform ones duties

His inadvertent missteps led them to charge him with misprision.

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Benthamite

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utility=morality
As a hardened Benthamite he believed in euthanasia.

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erudition

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great knowledge of many things

My erudition intimidates some people.

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matutolypea

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getting up on the wrong side of the bed

AOC is suffering from chronic matutolypea.

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whelp

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a despised person or offspring

Any male whelp challenging the Tudors quickly found his head rolling on the ground.

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latitant

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lying in wait

The Lusitania ignored the report of latitant U-Boats in her area.

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hidebound

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bound by convention or habit, unwilling to change

What a hidebound couple we must appear to be?

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tattoo

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the beat of a drum

The thin rain beat a tattoo.

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diffidence

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the ch. by being unassertive

Because of her diffidence, she did not ask for a raise.

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gaucherie

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a clumsy act

I was ashamed of my gaucherie.

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patent

paytent

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obvious

It would have been patent to anyone else.

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sardonic

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derisive humor

“Ah its the pity special today.” I said sardonically.

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blowzy

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unkempt

The blowzy desk was littered with scientific articles on magnetic monopoles and Reese’s wrappers.

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fulsome

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excessive, overdone

The fulsome praise of I’m-A-Camel Harris is nauseating.

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morganized

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to kill or kidnap someone to maintain a secret

The Clintons morganized many.

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borak
noun

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ridicule

The borak of Berack is completely appropriate.

104
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bombast

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pretentious or inflated speech

What a bunch of bombast!

105
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fatidic

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prophetic

Lot’s fatidic statement on Sodom and Gomorrah went unheeded.

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wan

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suggesting unhappiness or ill health

Kate’s wan smile tells me the Keegan issue is unresolved

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poiesis

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creative power

1993 was the peak of my poiesis.

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holography

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a hand written will

Howard Hughes holography was impugned.

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