Scald

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Scald: Burn with liquid or gas.
Called: Many, but few chosen.
Bald: Absent trees.
Bawled: Cried like a baby.
Balled: Failed to get a hit.
Malled: Developed a group of stores.
Mauled: Made like a pit bull.
Galled: Made unhappy, as with vinegar.
Lolled: Laughed out loud, lazily.

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Grapple

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Grapple: Hook on a rope, struggle with.
Apple: Fruit, computer company founded by two Steves.
Dapple: Pied.
Rapple: Fruit eaten by hip-hop artists.

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Winter Rain

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Winter Rain

Winter rain here falls weak, a drizzle,
Mizzling just enough to make the walkway damp.
Just enough to tickle the muscle,
Rustle the skin to ripple, stimulate a cramp.
The drip stirs the layered dust to muddy camp.
Flattening clouds spread out, limp away and fizzle.

Jack Wilson
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Peduncle

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Peduncle: Everything in the mesencephalon except the tectum.
Pedaunt: Teacher with a New England accent.

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Matter

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Matter: Substance.
Batter: Ball hitter, pancake stuff.
Clatter: Racket.
Fatter: More substantial.
Hatter: Mad character, maker of headgear.
Latter: Post.
Natter: Carry on verbally.
Ratter: Type of dog.
Tatter: Tear.
Patter: Content of jabber.

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Mizzle

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Winter Rain

Winter rain here falls weak, a drizzle,
Mizzling just enough to make the walkway damp.
Just enough to tickle the muscle,
Rustle the skin to ripple, stimulate a cramp.
The drip stirs the layered dust to muddy camp.
Flattening clouds spread out, limp away and fizzle.
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Smarmy

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Smarmy: Yucky, in the manner of Elvis or Whoopee.

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Twaddle

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Twaddle: Foofaraw, nonsense, galimatio.
Swaddle: Enclothe a baby.
Model: Ideal.
Coddle: Cook eggs.
Dawdle: Lag.
Noodle: Bean.

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Pommel

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Pommel: Whack silly, horn on saddle, handle on gym equipment.
Rommel: German General.

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Catbird Seat

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Catbird Seat: Superior position.

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Lam

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Lam: That which one takes it on when leaving abruptly, absquatulate.

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Signify

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Signify: Indicate, play the dozens.

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Trice

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Trice: Haul up and secure, short period of time.
Twice: Two times.
Dice: Two dies.
Lice: Bugs.
Mice: Rodents, computer devices.
Nice: Okay.

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Corpus

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Corpus: Body of work or data used in a study.


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Gigapan

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Gigapan: Photos with about a billion pixels.

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Heaven

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Heaven: Fictional abode of its creator.
Leaven: Add yeast.
Seven: Lucky number, sometimes.
Kevin: Kostner, Kline and Spacey.

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Clambake

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Clambake: An operation exposing Scientology.

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Binky

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Binky: Rabbit twist.

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Pantoflex

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Pantoflex: Furniture, camera.

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Moil

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Moil: Cutting edge practitioner, also his tool.
Boil: Heat up.
Coil: Ringlet of hair in Hackensack.
Foil: Sword, spoil a plot.
Goil: Brooklyn female person.
Roil: Stir up.
Soil: Dirt.
Spoil: Turn bad.
Toil: Work.

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Supple

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Supple: Bendable.
Couple: Two, unite.
Double: Fold, two.
Gobble: Eat too fast.
Hobble: Tie legs together.
Rubble: Trash.
Bubble: Spherical enclosure.
Fumble: Oops.

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Face

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Chintz

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Chintz: Shiny fabric.
Blintz: Eastern European pancake.
Mince: Chop up, walk funny.
Evince: Display.
Rinse: Wash out soap or other.
Linz: Town in Germany.
Ince, Thomas: Filmmaker.
Since: Considering, from that time.
Wince: Display pain with facial twists.

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Equal

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Equal: In theory, exactly the same. In practice, nearly the same.
Prequel: A story which starts before a previously presented story with the same characters and general line.
Sequel: A story following a previously told story in time, often with the same or similar characters and plot.
Fecal: Of excrement.
Legal: Permitted by law.
Beagle: Squat dog with big ears.
Eagle: Power bird.
Regal: Royal in bearing and tone.

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Schmutz

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Schmutz: Dirt that moves.

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MOMA

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MOMA: The Museum of Modern Art in NYC.
Neuroma: Swollen nerve.
Coma: More or less unconscious state.
Pamplona: Site of the running of the idiots.
Corona:Circle of light around a sphere.
Satsuma: Type of plum.

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Fibonacci

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Fibonacci: Italian mathemetician, developer of the golden spiral, though his numbering system was long known in India.

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Rambo

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Rambo: Fictional character named after Rimbaud.
Rimbaud: French poet.
Sambo: Fictional character for story set in India.
Bimbo: Character in Betty Boop.
Bimbo: Woman of questionable ethics and some nit-wittery.
Jumbo: Big elephant.
Dumbo: Fictional elephant with big ears.
Jimbo: Character in The Simpsons.
Akimbo: Arm position with hands on hips.
Limbo: Nowhere in particular populated by unbaptized babies.
Simba: Lion.

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Urn

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Glower

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Glower: Globar.
Sour: Not sweet, not salt, not bitter.
Power: Force.
Flour: Ground meal.
Flower: Pre-fruit.
Bower: Nest.
Hour: 60 Minutes.
Tower: Tall structure.
Gower: Champion with Marge.

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Snerkle

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Snerkle: Cinnamon roll made from leftover pie dough.
Merkle: Una.
Circle: Unending line.
Terkel: Studs.
Gherkin: Sweet pickle.
Merkin: Pubic wig.
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