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Largish "Live Forever!" | ||||
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lagniappe | ||||
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Wrapped? | ||||
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embrodieristic (having traits of an embroiderer) embroideryous (boisterous, while an embroiderer) embroideria (place for buying embroidery) Embroideryville (that there city/town) Embroideryski (Polish family name with long heritage in- you guessed it!) Embryodery (developing embroidery) | ||||
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Chap, a lagniappe ("LAN-yap") is a sort of "kick-back", i.e. a gift from a vendor to a customer. Broid, love your last entry! Here's a new one: embrocate | ||||
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Because I’m involved with so many kickbacks, “lagniappe” wasn’t so hard and a naked kickback is problematic so “wrapped” is usually preferred. “Embrocate” on the other hand was dicier and I had to look it up and I’ll be sure to embrocate the next time I go to the beach. | ||||
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I first encountered the word defenestration in a Bradbury story, but don't recall which one... | ||||
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How on earth did you remember that word? | ||||
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He seemed to really like it, I looked it up and liked it, and I've encountered it since... | ||||
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A tactinic reaction will never come knocking on my door. | ||||
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saturnine She stood silently looking out into the great sallow distances of sea bottom, as if recalling something, her yellow eyes soft and moist... rocketsummer@insightbb.com | ||||
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crucible She stood silently looking out into the great sallow distances of sea bottom, as if recalling something, her yellow eyes soft and moist... rocketsummer@insightbb.com | ||||
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homophone | ||||
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Right! Now correctly write "their," "there," and "they're." No doubt, you know the differences. Each word has its own meaning. It's really worth more than a few cents to have a good sense of the language. Now, this brings me to my new word of the day, "Gnu!" | ||||
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Good observation, Butch. Too many folks nowadays confuse "your" and "you're", for example. (Take note good friend Rocket!) Here are some good homophones: right, rite, write, and wright (though you don't see the latter much anymore). One that keeps tripping up singers, for some reason is "lead" and "led", though the former is only the metal... | ||||
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