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morganatic

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an unequal marriage of a wealthy man and a poor woman who gains no material or social compensation

Cinderella is anti-morganatic.

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booboise

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the stupid boob class of people, acc Mencken the working middle class

The democrats always pander to the booboise for votes.

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impute

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to attribute malevolent views or motives to someone

Don’t you dare impute the unvaccinated as the cause of all your problems.

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hummock

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a fertile hilly area above a marsh

Always build home on the hummock, and not in the marsh.

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bordrage

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a raid, a hostile border incursion

The Russian bordrage of the Crimean peninsula needs to be repulsed.

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margaric

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pearly

Margret is margaric.

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wanderlust

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an insatiable desire to travel

After 15 years of every other night on call I was stricken with wanderlust.

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Shiite

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Shiite’s believe Mohammed’s son in law Ali was the rightful successor.

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thaumaturgist

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a miracle worker

Are you kidding? I am not a thaumaturgist.

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immure

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to enclose in walls

Edward V was immured in the Tower of London by Henry VIII.

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gratuitous

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unwanted and unrequested

Your gratuitous advice not to marry Amy is unheeded.

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boreas

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a cold north wind

It was a boreas that chilled and killed my beautiful Annabel Lee.

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mollynogging

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frequent use of prostitutes

His mollynogging is certainly grounds for divorce.

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waif

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a stray person

The occasional liberal waif will stumble onto the Tucker Carlson hour for an entertaining auto-da-fe.

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Bowdlerized

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to shrink a piece of writing by editing out the titillating bits

Clearly the Ghilsaine Maxwell testimony was Bowdlerized prior to public release.

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Panglossian

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sillily overly optimistic

With respect to conquering covid, Biden is stupidly Panglossian.

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marcescent

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withered and decayed

Jesus took the Leper’s marcescent hand to his lips.

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disport

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to frolic or gambol

The children disport in the Park every sunny afternoon.

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despoiling

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to seriously spoil and ruin

It is a certainty that we are despoiling our planet.

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nonplussed

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confused and unsure how to react

Keegan’s atrocious behavior has left Kate nonplussed.

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Daphnean

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bashful

The Daphnean naiad Daphne tried to escape from Apollo’s advances and was transformed into a laurel tree by her father Peneus the river god.

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monomath

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a person who knows a lot about only one subject

Heisenberg was a brilliant monomath who did not know how to light a fire.

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Brobdingnagian

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giant

Even. three apple pancakes could not sate Kevin’s Brobdingnagian appetite.

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ineffable

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unspeakable due to awe

My joy was ineffable.

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waggish
mischievous and witty It was a waggish look at hot pants. What were we thinking?
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importune
urgent solicitation The mother importuned the judge to spare her son’s life.
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bosky
having an abundance of brush and shrubs The bosky shoreline of the Colorado River precluded fly fishing.
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jactitation
loud public bragging Ali’s jactitation was always entertaining.
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bugbear
a source of irritation Biden’s bugbear is the unvaccinated.
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vox populi
the popular voice/ opinion Defund the Police is the Democratic vox populi.
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myrmidon
one who obeys an follows without question The Brown Shirts were Hitler’s myrmidons.
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icarian
hazardous I hope you find your way on that icarian path.
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impunity
exemption from punishment The Democrat’s pass their asinine and harmful laws with impunity.
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invidious
likely to cause ill will Kate’s invidious choice to not go to Church will hurt Mom.
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oneiric
dreamlike Her oneiric beauty tortured him.
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bouleversement
a reversal Biden’s Staff is picking up the dog poop from another Biden bouleversement .
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barathrum
an abyss or hell Unfit Spartan boys were thrown into the Barathrum.
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claver
Idle talk or gossip The claver is a cease fire is at hand.
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bemused
befuddled With respect to day to day things Einstein was a bemused.
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casus belli
an act that must cause one to go to war The casus belli for England in August 1914 was the invasion of Belgium by Germany.
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contemned
to treat with contempt Much to Putins’ surprise, the Ukranians contemned the Russian Army.
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bull
an authoritative declaration The Supreme Court handed down the bull declaring abortion illegal.
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voluptuous
extreme sensory pleasure The voluptuous banquet sated everyone.
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Scylla
a rock on the coast of Calabria the toe of Italy, mythological monster near whirlpool Charybdis Don’t fuck with Scylla.
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mandarin
an overly ornate and refined writing style The novel us too mandarin for my taste.
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insulse
tasteless, latin unsalted Cauliflower is insulse.
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bourdon
the lowest bass tone bell or organ stop The bourdon sounded the death knell.
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natant
swimming or floating in water The natant newborn splashed happily in the sink.
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inchoate
not completely formed Some say Quantum Theory is inchoate.
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bovarism
a preoccupation with an unrealistic romanticized version of oneself “A Camel Harrass” needs to set aside her bovarism. She is not liked, she is not competent, and she will only be elected as Willie Brown’s haetura.
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noetic
apprehended only through intellect Complex Mathematical Space is purely noetic.
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telarian
characterized by web spinning Jen Psaki is telarian…with her spinning and circling back… maybe she has eight jointed legs and a red hourglass on her butt.
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pharisaical
hypocritically righteous The pharisaical unmasked Newsome screamed “Wear a mask Trumper.”
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nitid
bright and lustrous The nitid Angel ornament made the Christmas Tree.
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vituperative
bitter and abusive Greta von Thurnberg’s vituperative speech to the United Nations, although specious , made the little shit famous.
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bumptious
arrogant and self assertive Sebastian Gorka is a bumptious idiot.
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decollate
decapitate Did Daddy decollate Debbie’s Daisies?
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incubus and succubus
male and female demons who sexually assault sleepers A couple with everything has her and his towels, and an incubus for her and a succubus for him.
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phallocrypsis
penile shrinkage George suffered from acute phallocrypsis.
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bellicism
a war like tendency Putins’ bellicism will cause World War III.
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Phillistine
uncultured Give me those opera tickets you Phillistine.
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buncombe
empty talk The Global Conference on Global Warming was a high tide of buncombe.
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longanimity
the ability to suffer patiently The longanimity endured by the Jews is without precedent.
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ineluctable
incapable of being avoided Their divorce is ineluctable after his mollynogging.
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vitriol
hatred The vitriol towards the unvaccinated is unacceptable.
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ortive
Eastern or rising His ortive career in Theoretical Physics is exciting.
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defalcation
misappropriation of funds by an elected official Hunter Biden and his Father are guilty of defalcation.
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peccable
liable to sin All men are peccable and need God’s grace to avert this temptation.
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dern
a dark hidden secret He took his dern to his deathbed before confessing to the bank heist.
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brachistochrone
the optimal geodesic or path to minimize time Inteflex at-the University of Michigan a brachistochrone to an MD degree.
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ingannation
deception or fraud The Chinese ingannation wrt Covid origins, should cause the Nations of the world to sanction it.
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mundivagant
characterized by wandering all over the world Tawny is mundivagant.
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burin
a sharp pointed steel engraving tool Only the burin of losing votes will engrave change in a politician.
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demiurge
the creator of a world Demiurges abound in pc survivor games.
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nullibicity
the state of being nowhere I survived the nullibicity of Nebraska.
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numinous
spiritually awesome The angels led me to a numinous mountain.
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punditry
the expression of authority or expertise in a field Fauci’s punditry is taken as gospel by the Mainstream Media.
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philocalist
One who appreciates beauty in all things Nature photography always stirred the philocalist in me.
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Visigoths
the destroyers of Rome It is time to unleash the Visigoths.
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sanctimony
characterized by a holier than thou attitude What bothers me the most about Pelosi is her unabashed sanctimony.
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unabashed
lacking embarrassment Fauci is unabashed despite being always…and I repeat… always wrong.
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dysphoria
the state of being unhappy or unwell Mom’s daily dysphoria, when she has so much, is exhausting.
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deliciate
to to something to make oneself happy After a shitty week she decided to deliciate a large cheese pizza.
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bursary
menial work done by a college student to defer tuition costs “Forget bursary” says Biden the Braindead, “all student loans are now forever and ever forgiven” in this Fucking Fairyland. What a stultocrat.
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levant
to flee ones debtors or a strong eastern Mediterranean wind I levanted to Canada.
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pretermit
to overlook Despite the unfavorable divorce, he did not pretermit his paternal responsibilities.
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venerable
revered or respected Oxford is the most venerable college in the world.
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ingenuous
inexperienced unworldly The ingenuous and second Mrs. DeWinter was overwhelmed by Manderlay and Rebecca.
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branes
multidimensional extensions of manifolds Brane theory is just starting to be introduced into Cosmology.
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dysania
difficulty getting out of bed in the morning Teenage dysania is pandemic.
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ephemeromorph
a form of life so low it defies classification Pelosi and Schumer are ephemeromorphs.
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cacchinator
one laughs loudly for no reason A Camel’s Ass Harris is a cacchinator.

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