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addlepated

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mentally muddled

Biden’s brain is so addlepated it should be served with toast.

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salutary

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promoting health

Red wine is salutary.

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to uitwaiin

dutchverb

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to take a break, escape and clear ones mind

Amy uitwaiined at Captiva.

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collation

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a light meal

A collation before a race is advisable.

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churlish

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rude and surly

Is it me, or are drivers of Ram trucks with large knobby wheels churlish?

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profligate

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recklessly extravagant

I tend to be profligate.

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mercurial

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sudden unpredictable changes in mood

Trump isn’t frampold, he is just mercurial.

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elapids

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snakes with erect fangs

Cobras and coral snakes are elapids.

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decoct

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to extract the essence of a thing by boiling it

The herbs were being decocted by the witches when in walked McBeth.

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munificent

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lavishly generous

I tend to be munificent.

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quash

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to void or nullify

She quashed my dream of a snorkel vacation

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pettifoggery

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Little mindedness

ABC’s “The View” is a stultifying study in pettifoggery.

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soubrette

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a flirtatious young women

She was a petite red headed soubrette.

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ineluctable

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not capable of being avoided

I am afraid a World War is ineluctable.

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exiguous

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meager

The sanction results are exiguous.

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eldritch

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eerie

The children ran past the eldritch old mansion.

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bricoleur

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a do it your selfer

Joe is a bricoleur.

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apoplectic

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overcome with anger

Putin became apoplectic and launched the nukes.

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revanchism

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the desire to vengefully regain lost territory

Russian revanchism is again rampant.

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franion

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a habitual merrymaker

Rita is the quintessential franion.

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phantasmagoria

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a sequence of imaginary images as if in a dream

I awoke from my phantasmagoria of failures.

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frampold

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peevish, touchy

Trump is a bit frampold at times.

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culvert

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a water conduit passing beneath a road

The culvert was dammed with debris and flooded the road.

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deonerate

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to unburden
I will deonerate myself at Confession on Saturday.

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trepverter

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a too-late brilliant comeback

The trepverter popped into my mind later that night.

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confabulate

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to talk, or engage in conversation

Let’s sit down, cross our legs, and confabulate.

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iconoclast

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a person who attacks cherished beliefs

Lenin, the leader of the 1917 Russian Revolution, was an iconoclast.

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reticent

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not readily revealing one’s feelings or thoughts
When it comes to denying our simian heritage, I am not reticent at all.

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boorish

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rough and bad mannered
The bars of Boston are full of boorish individuals.

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philistine

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a person who is hostile or indifferent to the arts and learningthe philistine black educational groups call standard math and english racist

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marplot

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one who hinders the success of a plot or plan

Always the marplot, he canceled our funding.

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emeritus or emerita

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a retired male or female professor
The emeritus married the emerita at the College Church.

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clement

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mild mannered

The weather has been quite clement.

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perorate

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to speak in a lengthy pompous manner
Bumptious Bama and Sebastian Gorka perorate all the time; what asses!

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tartle

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to hesitate upon meeting someone because you have forgotten their name
I tartle all the time.

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bruxing

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nervous teeth grinding
Dad’s nocturnal bruxing caused me to sleep downstairs.

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cupola

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a round dome on top of a roof
The cupola at St Peters Basilica is immense.

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struisvogelpolitiek

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acting as if you did not notice that something bad happened esp in politics…ostrich politics

MSM’s struisvogelpolitik of Hunter’s incriminating laptop ensured Biden’s victory.

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colloquy

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a discussion
Lets have a colloquy at the colloquium.

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colloquium

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an academic seminar
Lets have a colloquy at the colloquium.

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elegy

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a lament for the deadthe elegy for the parkland shooting was lugubrious

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lugubrious

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sounding sad or mournful
Freunden no more of these lugubrious tones.

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veridical

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truthful

A veridical Mainstream Media is lost forever.

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dragooned

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to force somebody into doing something

Many of the Russian troops were dragooned to fight the war in Ukraine.

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sylph

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a mythical sprite woman lovely, and thin
Elena was a sylph.

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bashment

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a large party
At 40 I had a birthday bashment.

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moil

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work hard
Many people moil for wealth, and then find that they still are not happy.

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emollient

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a skin softener or soother

She applied an emollient to the sunburn.

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cognoscenti

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those in the know

The cognoscenti of black holes believe in Hawking radiation

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shamble

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to walk awkwardly with shuffling feet
My walk is a shambling keysish walk in loafers and no socks.

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objets trouve

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refound objects of the past that are interesting

The attic was stuffed with objets trouve.

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dado

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the lower part of a wall distinct from the upper part also a
wood joinery groove cut across the grain
The dado in the palace was highly ornamental.

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wabi-sabi
buhddist japanese noun

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finding beauty in imperfections, or the acceptance of the cycle of life and death

Broken Roman sculptures are Wabi-sabi.

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colporteur

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a door to door seller of books
I fondly remember the World Book Encyclopedia colporteurs of the 1960s.

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entelechy

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the realization of potential

My entelechy at Servite was noticed by all the teachers.

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elephantine

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large and clumsy
Kevin is a loveable elephantine kind of guy.

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buteonine

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pertaining to buzzards
The buteonine land fills are disgusting.

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adventitious

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accidental

His fame is purely adventitious.

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boite

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a small club or cabaret
“We are all out of boites!”, cried Niles.

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proselytize

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to overbearingly try and convert someone to their religion
Islamists proselytize with knives.

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rheumy

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red and watery, as if ill ,
Tired or drunk, he had rheumy eyes.

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tiam

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the twinkle in your eye when you meet someone special
The tiam in her eye , meant a lot to me.

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kintsukuroi

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noun the repair of broken pottery with gold making it more beautiful

For having been broken, the beautiful broken vase was repaired with kintsukuroi.

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emulous

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desirous of , or rivaling
Ellen’s younger sister was emulous of my attention.

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comestible

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edible

Little on the island, especially taro root, was comestible.

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redact

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to edit out sensitive aspects of a document

The fisa warrant was heavily redacted.

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finial

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the pointed ornament atop a roof

Many finials are antique lightening rods.

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apothegm

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a concise pithy saying
Churchill coined many witty apothegms.

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elide

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to leave out a sound or syllable in a word or sentence
“Hello y’all!” , she elided.

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caballine

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suitable for a horse
She was unable to swallow the caballine pill.

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commensurate

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corresponding in amount
The punishment should be commensurate with the crime.

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anon

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shortly
I will be there anon.

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nunchi
nun chee
noun korean

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the act of listening to someones speech to gauge their mood
Wrt to Kim Jung Il, Trump is adept at the art of nunchi.

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nazlanmaked

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saying no but meaning yes

When I first asked her out on a date she nazlanmaked, and so I politely persisted.

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emunctory

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adj of wiping the nose
Flu season is upon us and all are involved in emunctory acts.

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comport

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to behave oneself and act appropriately

Please comport yourself when you meet the Queen.

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blurb

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a brief description on a book jacket

After reading the blurb I bought the book.

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frieze

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a broad band of painted or sculpted decoration along a wall

We stood in awe of the Minoan friezes

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quadrate

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to conform
That does not quadrate with the facts.

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elocution

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to deliver a speech in a clear and persuasive manner
Peeloosee, in her dotage, is incapable of elocution.

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cacoethes

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an overwhelming bad desire, a bad habit.
Society is overwhelmed by a cacoethes to weblogi.

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commination

A

a threat of vengeance, esp divine
Living in Sodom and Gomorrah commination is ever present.

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akihi
noun hawaiian

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the prompt forgetting of given street directions
As he maundered on , about how to get to the Louvre, my eyes glazed over and akihi set in.

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croodle

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to nestle together
I love to croodle with Amy by the fire.

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encomiastic

A

laudatory
CNN’s encomiastic praise of Obama was predictable.

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conciliate

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to placate
We cannot conciliate Putin.

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boondoggle

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a wasteful activity
The Build Back Better Bill is a boondoggle.

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dormer

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an upright window under a sloping roof
The dormer blew out in the hurricane.

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rifacimento

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an adaptation of a book to a movie, or play
I anticipate the rifacimento of Kristin Hannah’s book, “The Nightingale”.

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eloigned

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to be moved to a distant location
After testifying against Hillary, he was eloigned to a secret location in remotest Siberia.

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caitiff

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a despicable coward
The caitiff deputy cowered behind the squad car as the children were shot.

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concinnity

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literary eloquence
i am always impressed by tolstoy’s concinnity

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dishabille

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a state of undress
I arrived at the interview hungover and in dishabille, but still was accepted.

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autodidact

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one who is self taught

I am an autodidact.

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deracinate

A

uproot

We must deracinate Isis.

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goya

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virtual, or make believe that seems real

The Metaverse is peurile and will never achieve goya.

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inglenook

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a corner by the fire
We love the cozy inglenook.

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ennervate

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to remove strength or vigor
After Delilah’s crew cut Samson felt enervated.

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condign

A

appropriate for the crime

I doubt JustMe SmellIt will receive a condign punishment.

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runcible

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a spork or spoon and a fork

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gable

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a roof with two sloping sides
The snow slid off the gable

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postiche

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a toupee or feigned or counterfeit

My postiche performance at SLOB fooled them.

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elucubrate

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to toil over a written piece

He elucubrated over his late term paper.

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caliginous

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dark and gloomy
It was a caliginous portrait of famous doctors at Johns Hopkins, and it gave me the creeps.

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congeries

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a disorderly collection

Pirates were a congeries of miscreants.

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miscreant

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a person who behaves badly or breaks the law

Pirates were a congeries of miscreants.

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honne and tattemae

A

what a person really believes in and will share with friends

My honne is known at Home, and my tattemae known in Town.

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tatemae

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what a person pretends to believe to avoid confrontation

In this cancel culture it is well advised to stick to one’s tatemae.

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tacenda

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matters better left unsaid
Never go to sleep with tacenda on your and your wife’s mind

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drachenfutter

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gifts given by a husband to a wife when he has been bad

JFK gave drachenfutter pearls to Jackie O. all the time.

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entomophagous

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insect eating
John the Baptist was entomophagous.

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consanguineous

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related by blood to the same ancestor
Frasier and Niles were consanguineous to thieves and whores.

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adulate

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to show excessive admiration
The liberals no longer adulate addlepated Biden.

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gnomon

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an indicative rod on a sundial casting a shadow and showing the time

Trump is the gnomon of a new time in our democracy.

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additament

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an added thing
The layover in Paris was a pleasant additament.

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lucubrate

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to study intensely esp at night
Katy lucubrated at Duke.

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elute

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to dissolve
Drug eluting stents are passe.

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callithumping

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loud noisy boisterous

The little shitty car went racing by us with its callithumping bass.

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conspectus

A

a synopsis or summary
The conspectus states there was no Russian collusion.

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chiliastic

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dealing with things a thousand years from now

Asimov was a chiliastic author.

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balter

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to dance artlessly but enjoyably

I balter at ballet.

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szimpatikus
noun
hungarian

A

Your initial impression of a person that they are good
My szimpatikus upon meeting Amy was correct.

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ephemeral

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fleeting, short lived
Life is ephemeral.

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accrete

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to add to something and make it bigger

Snow accreted to the snowball as we rolled it along the ground.

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jamb

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the side surface of a door or window

The jambs are so warped thy need to be replaced.

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parogoge

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to add additional letters or sounds, antonym =elide
Amongst vs among is a parogoge example.

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adscititious

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an unexpected additional benefit
We bought the house in the winter and adscititious tulips sprung up in spring.

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em

A

a typesetting space the width of an m

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candent

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glowing as if from intense heat

Please keep my love of you, Jesus, candent.

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contumacy

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disobedience

The contumacy of a two year old is predictable.

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tarantism

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the uncontrollable urge to dance
The music started and all the guests were seized by tarantism.

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forelsket

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the euphoria of first being in love
I will always remember my first forelsket with Ellen.

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epicene

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feeble, male femininization or characterized by both sexes
Our self-loathing, epicene culture is deservedly laughed at by the World.

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portmanteaux

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a fusion of two words

Chortle, to chukle and snort, is a portmanteaux

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joists

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parallel support beams in the roof or floor

The joists were rotten.

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precisian

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a person who is rigidly precise
Evan Owens was a precisian.

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emblements

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crops grown on an acreage
The cost of emblements have soared this year.

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canorous

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melodious and musical
All of Mozart’s works are canorous.

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contumelious

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insolent ie arrogant and rude and reproachful or blameful
Putin is contumelious towards his Generals.

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objurgation

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harsh reproof or accusation

Her objurgation about my bad habit led me to stop.

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illaudable

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not admirable
History will record Biden’s presidency as illaudable.

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velleity

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the state of desiring something but making no effort to act upon it
My becoming a gm is a velleity.

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mirabiliary

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a wonder or miracle worker
Compared to Biden, Trump is a mirabiliary.

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aeolist

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a blustering windbag
Hilary is a first degree aeolist, and should shoot and sputter about the room like an overinflated balloon.

145
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tretar

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the third cup of coffee
I have not yet had my tretar.

146
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epistolic

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contained or revealed in letters
The novel is epistolic.

147
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cremains

A

the ashes of the cremated
Father Dennison’s cremains were spread across the water.

148
Q

keep

A

a stronghold
The keep was surrounded by a moat.

149
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ideologue

A

an impractical idealist

Green Deal ideologues suffer from proctocephaly.

150
Q

empennage

A

The rear rudder and stabilizer of a plane
The A10 landed without its empennage.

151
Q

carriwitchet

A

a funny absurd quip

I lost an electron said the hydrogen atom. I am positive.

152
Q

corrigenda

A

typos and mistakes in a book
The publishers finally released the corrigenda to the calculus textbook.

153
Q

languid

A

disinclined to physical exertion
I feel languid on beta blockers.

154
Q

deipnosophist

A

one skilled at intellectual dinner talk
I am a deipnosophist.

155
Q

kabelsalat

A

a tangle of cables
I have unwound the electronic charger kabelsalat.

156
Q

eponymous

A

giving one’s name to a place
They climbed eponymous Pike’s Peak, but found no pike to fish.

157
Q

cinematheque

A

a small movie theatre given to artistic or off beat worksthe tropic is a cinematheque

158
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keystone

A

the locking stone at the top of an arch
The keystone gave way and the arch collapsed.

159
Q

vicinal

A

in the vicinity

The phone app Nearby tells me what vicinal amenities are about.

160
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empressment

A

an excessive display of cordiality
Pip was beset by the empressment of toadies seeking favors.

161
Q

cavil

A

to raise trivial objections
The spoiled starlet continues to cavil about her suite at the Four Seasons.

162
Q

corrigible

A

capable of being corrected
I am corrigible.

163
Q

erlebnisse

A

deeply felt experiences
I fondly recall the erlebnisse of getting engaged to Amy.

164
Q

nazurdu

A

the pride and self assured feeling of being unconditionally loved
I have nazurdu due to God.

165
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carmine

A

crimson red
Daphne wore a stunning high-slit carmine gown to to the ball.

166
Q

eristic

A

disputatious

I enjoy The Five because it is eristic.

167
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a horizontal structural piece supporting the load above a door or window

A

the dry rotted lintel above the main entance collapsed the second floor

168
Q

limitrophe

A

nations, states or territories that are bordering another nation
Unfortunately, it is the NATO limitrophes that have caused the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

169
Q

empyreal

A

elevated or sublime
The stars at night in Kannah Creek were an empyreal spectacle.

170
Q

celeritous

A

quick or rapid in manner
He experienced a celeritous decline in health.

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corybantic

A

frenzied

The Russian markets opened to a precipitous and corybantic decline.

172
Q

labrose

A

having large lips

Many Africans are labrose.

173
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ne plus ultra

A

the ultimate example of perfection
Grace Kelly was the ne plus ultra of a classy bitch.

174
Q

carceral

A

imprisoning

The epitome of carceral punishment to Gen Xers is losing ones Twitter account.

175
Q

descipience

A

foolishness

I must decease my descipience in buying additional math books.

176
Q

abrogate

A

to do away with
The usa will abrogate the Iran Nuclear Treaty.

177
Q

lambent

A

lightly flickering
The lambent candles threw eerie shadows.

178
Q

paralogism

A

faulty reasoning
All illegal immigrants are criminals is a conservative paralogism.

179
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apodictic

A

clearly established
The Big Bang is apodictic.

180
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sobremesa

A

after dinner talk

After dinner the sobremesa was held over brandy and cigars. I declined and went home to my wife.

181
Q

saudade

A

a strong nostalgia for something or someone lost
Mom continues her saudade over Henry and Daisy.

182
Q

birling

A

spinning a log by treading upon it
Snowboarding and birling are now an Olympic events.

183
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esculent

A

edible tasty

I am a carnivore. I cannot abide even an esculent vegan diet.

184
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machiolation

A

a floor opening in a castle walls walkway to drop projectiles or hot oil
The flaming oil was dropped down the machiolation onto his enemies.

185
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appanage

A

a necessary accompaniment
Calculus is an appanage to advanced physics.

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endemic

A

a widespread condition

Covid is endemic.

187
Q

cete

A

a group of badgers

I would rather be slowly eaten by a cete of badgers then go to another SCVS meeting.

188
Q

cozen

A

to cheat or defraud

Do not cozen the IRS.

189
Q

nostrum

A

an ineffective quick fix

Starving oneself is a nostrum for weight loss.

190
Q

provincial

A

limited in scope, simple minded
Duh shut down oil production and gas prices go up…How provincial can you get?

191
Q

cuckquean

A

a female cuckold, or the act creating such
Melania has been cuckqueaned by Donald.

192
Q

furibund

A

enraged
When he accused me of being racist, I became furibund and beat the shit out of him.

193
Q

nimiety

A

excess
I have a nimiety of books.

194
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nugatory

A

trifling , of no value

Bitcoin will soon be nugatory.

195
Q

tractable

A

easy to control
Will is not a tractable child.

196
Q

disabuse

A

to persuade someone they are wrong
I will disabuse you of that notion.

197
Q

sutee

A

the hindu practice of a widow throwing herself on her husbands pyre

The practice of Sutee has not caught on fire , pun intended , in Hollywood.

198
Q

quop

A

to pulsate, throb, beat
Seeing her, his heart quopped.

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