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Quote of the Day: "Cursing is the bowel movement of the soul." Josef Goebbels
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Sinciput

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Sinciput: Forehead;  Since he put his sinciput on my shoulder, I have grease on my coat.
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Quote of the day: "One kind word can warm three winter months." Japanese Proverb
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Lipogram

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Lipogram: Word, phrase, paragraph, article, book which does not contain the letter "E".
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Quote of the day: "Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative." Maurice Chevalier
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Rumen

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Rumen = personal car, paunch
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Quote of the day: "Hell is full of musical amateurs." George Bernard Shaw
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Tumid

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Tumid: Overinflated.
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Quote of the day: "A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people." Thomas Mann
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Apse

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Apse: Church section, usually polygonal and containing the altar.
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Quote of the day: "If the shoe fits, get another one just like it." Bob the Butler
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Cymric

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Cymric: Welsh language, long-haired Manx-type cat.
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Quote of the day: "When it is dark enough, you can see the stars." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Pilose

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Pilous, pilose: Hairish
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Quote of the day: "What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it" Charles Dudley Warner
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Gabble

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Gabble: Jabber
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Quote of the day: "Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night." Philip K. Dick
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Pung

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Pung: One-horse sleigh.
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Quote of the day: "Nietsche is Pietsche." Ogen Nash
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Costermonger

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Costermonger: Street seller of produce in London and other British towns.

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Quote of the day: "One cat just leads to another." Ernest Hemingway
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Quagga

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Quagga: Extinct half-striped zebra.

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Quote of the day: "Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal." Albert Camus
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Jeroboam

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Jeroboam: Champagne bottle equal to four standard bottles, biblical king.
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Quote of the day: "Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes.  That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile way and you have their shoes." Author Unknown
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Spate

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Spate: Overflow
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Quote of the day: "Arizona looks like a battle on Mars." Author Unknown
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Parp

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Parp: Sound like a car horn.
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Quote of the day: "Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms." George Eliot
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Diplodocus

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Diplodocus: Big, plant-eating Dinosaur of the late Jurassic period.
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Quote of the day: "Criticism is prejudice made plausible." H. L. Mencken
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Killick

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Killick: Anchor, hitch, head man.
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Quote of the day: "How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct." Benjamin Disraeli
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Assai

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Assai: Very (musical term, Italian)
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Quote of the day: "When you don't know what you are doing, you don't know when to quit." George Foster
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Wankel

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Wankel: Pistonless rotary engine.
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Quote of the day: "What dreadful hot weather we have!  It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance." Jane Austen
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Epithet

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Epithet: A word of description that clarifies or comments on the characteristic qualities of a person or object. The wine-dark sea, from Homer's Odyssey, describes the nature and appearance of the sea. Richard the Lion Hearted, Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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Quote of the day: "Even the best needles are not sharp at both ends." Chinese Proverb
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Zydeco

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Zydeco: American folk music of creole origin.
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Quote of the day: "Laughter is the closest distance between two people.” Victor Borge
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Toots

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Toots: Term of endearment, iconic harmonica player.
Boots: Fires.
Coots: Geezers
Foots: More than one pedal extremity.
Hoots: Gatherings of folk singers.
Loots: Steals openly.
Moots: Unnecessary arguments.
Roots: Underground support.
Soots: Black coatings.
Woots: Bargain sites.
Zoots: Saxophone players Sims.
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Quote of the day: "Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do." Jean-Paul Sartre
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Rictus

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Rictus: Open-mouthed.
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Quote of the day: "No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent." Abraham Lincoln
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Bigotry

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Bigotry: Irrational ethnic, religious, sexual and racial enmity often leading to personal, military and economic violence.
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Quote of the day: "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers." Socrates
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Patriot

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Patriot: Everybody.
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Quote of the day: "To disagree with three-fourths of the...public is one of the first requisites of sanity." Oscar Wilde
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Moke

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Moke: Undesirable person, aka mook.
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Quote of the day: Waiter: "You should be nice to me." Patron: "Why should I?" Waiter: "Because I'm in charge of the butter."
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Cantabridgian

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Cantabridgian: Of Cambridge, gauche.
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Quote of the day: "Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student." George Iles
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Perseverate

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Perseverate: To continue to do something after there is no reason to do it. Beating a dead horse comes to mind.
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Quote of the day: "The art of love ... is largely the art of persistence." Albert Ellis
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Burrow

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Burrow: Squirrel hideout.
Furrow: Row.
Murrow: Newsman.
Turow: Writer.
Barrow: Clyde.
Darrow: Lawyer.
Farrow: Actor.
Harrow: School.
Jarreau: Al.
LaRue; Lash.
Marrow: Red cell maker.
Narrow: Mountain pass.
Perot: Helicopter pilot.
Tarot: Mumbo Jumbo.
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Quote of the day: "Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about."  Saskya Pandita
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Minim

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Minim: Not much, half note.
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Quote of the day: "The perfection of art is to conceal art." Quintilian
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Avocado

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Avocado: Testicle shaped lawyer. [Word Origin: 1763, from Sp. avocado, altered (by folk etymology influence of earlier Sp. avocado "lawyer," from same L. source as advocate) from earlier aguacate, from Nahuatl ahuakatl "testicle."]
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Quote of the day: "There is a country in Europe where multiple-choice tests are illegal." Sigfried Hulzer
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Arbitrage

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Arbitrage: What Enron did to us, a bit like the operation in the movie, The Sting. A dress shirt brand.
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Quote of the day: "Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none."  Benjamin Franklin
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Periwinkle

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Periwinkle: Red flower, blue flower, sea snail.
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Quote of the day: "It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Alforja

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Alforja: Saddlebags.
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Quote of the day: "The highest result of education is tolerance." Helen Keller
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Tumulus

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Tumulus: Mound.
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Quote of the day: "The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles" Mohandas K. Gandhi:
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Apology

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Apology: Expression, often verbal, indicating that one regrets having hurt another, and that one considers oneself a skunk unworthy of the company of humans or dogs. Best when accompanied by a declaration that it will not happen again.
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Quote of the day: "If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse." Woody Allen
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Cloud Gate

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Cloud Gate: Reflective sculpture in Millenium Park, Chicago.
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Quote of the day: "When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion." Abraham Lincoln
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Tawdry

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Tawdry: Lace, shortening of St. Audry, cheap.
Audry: Seymour's girlfriend and carnivorous plant.
Awdry: Click for nothing to see.
Bawdry: Lewdness.
Caudry: French commune.
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Quote of the day: "Ignorance never settled a question." Benjamin Disraeli
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Hoofer

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Hoofer: Dancer.
Heifer: Female bovine.
Loofa: Scrubber.
Coffer: Chest.
Cougher: Chest problems.
Boffo: Hoo-ha!
Doofus: Dipstick.
Roofer: One who installs and repairs roofs.
Twofer: Two for the price of one.
Woofer: Bass speaker, some dogs.
Gopher: One who goes for coffee.
Goofer: More goof.
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Quote of the day: "Black holes are where God divided by zero." Steven Wright
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Gussy

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Gussy: With up; trick out.
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Quote of the day: "Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." William Butler Yeats
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Boffins

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Boffins: Research scientist, family in Dickens' last novel: Our Mutual Friend

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Quote of the day: "This book fills a much-needed gap." Moses Hadas
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Toad

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Toad: Broad, tailless amphibian. Frog. Rock band.
Towed: Pulled behind.
Abode: Dwelling.
Bode: Foretell.
Code: Indirect communication.
Goad: Spur.
Joad: Okie family per Steinbeck.
Load: Quantity.
Lode: Mass of material.
Node: Point.
Road: Path.
Rode: Went by conveyance.
Sewed: Stitched.
Told: Snitched.
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Quote of the day: "I don't need equal time, I am equal time!"  Rush Limbaugh
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Pashmina: Persian wool.
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Quote of the day: "Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer." Saint Thomas Moore
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Aperçu: Clever insight
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Quote of the day: "A film is--or should be--more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings." Stanley Kubrick
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Earwicker

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Earwicker: Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker, (HCE, Here Comes Everybody, Has Childers Everwhere), principle character in Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, considered by some to be the greatest novel ever written, by others; junk, by most; interesting and unusual.
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Quote of the day: "Often he who does too much does too little." Italian Proverb 
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Syllabub: Spiked milk drink or dessert.
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Quote of the day: "He was a bold man that first ate an oyster." Jonathan Swift 
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Mumble

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Mumble: Speak indistinctly.
Bumble: Move awkwardly.
Fumble: Drop the ball.
Humble: Modest.
Hummus: Messed up chick peas.
Jumble: Word puzzle.
Rumble: Noise, fight.
Scumble: Mess up paint.
Tumble: Fall.
Gumble: Round bubble gum, Sometime partner of Couric.
Gamble: Risk, partner of Proctor.
Gimble: Department Store, Antagonist to Macy.
Grumble: Bitch about partner or antagonist.
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Quote of the day: "It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument." William G. McAdoo
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Guernica

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Guernica: Small town in Spain carpet-bombed by Nazis in WWII for no strategic purpose other than terrorism and practice. Immortalized by Picasso.
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Quote of the day: "When you lose someone you love, you die too, and you wait around for your body to catch up." John Scalzi,
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Tenderloin: Cut of meat, red-light district.
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Quote of the day: "Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you." Spanish Proverb
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Spondulicks

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Spondulicks: Money, from a greek word meaning vertebra, possibly from the appearance of a stack of coins.
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Quote of the day: "Soon we saw that money going to women brought much more benefit to the family than money going to the men. So we changed our policy and gave a high priority to women. As a result, now 96% of our four million borrowers in Grameen Bank are women." Muhammad Yunus
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