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mutatis mutandi

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minor details have been changed but the main point remains

Concerning James Joyce’s Ulysses, mutatis mutandi, the hero’s name is Leopold Bloom.

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Xanadu

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a place of idyllic beauty where Kubla Kahn built his pleasure dome in Coleridge’s poem

I live in Xanadu Key.

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hardscrabble

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adj ch by barely eking out an existence

The hardscrabble life depicted in The Grapes of Wrath is painful to read.

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supererogatory

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superfluous in a perjorative sense

Biden’s comments about any matter are by definition supererogatory.

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melliloquent

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honey tongued
Satan is melliloquent.

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endue

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to endow with honors

The brave Veteran was endued with the Medal of Honor.

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attenuate

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to stretch out or prolong

The obviously spurious Russian Collusion probe was attenuated by Schumer throughout Trump’s entire presidency.

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bellibone

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a woman of exceptional beauty

Racquel Welch was the quintessential bellibone.

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daedal

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ingeniously inventive

The Fetal Celltrode was deadal.

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harrow

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to distress one’s mind

The harrow of my unemployment took a permanent mental toll upon me.

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mendaciloquent

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skilled at lying

Biden is mendaciloquent.

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Xanthippe

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Socrates’ shrewish wife

Nancy Pelosi nee Xanthippe.

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tendentious

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biased

No-one believes the tendentious Main Stream Media any longer.

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Attican

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classically elegant and simple as of Athens

The Proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem is positively Attican.

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imbue

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to soak or permeate

The toga was imbued with Caesar’s blood.

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belluine

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beast-like , brutal

Belluine Blacks are the rule rather than the exception.

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damascene

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to decorate with wavy lines

The damascene walls of the aquarium made the visitors sea-sick.

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hecatomb

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a huge 100 oxen sacrifice to the Greek gods

The hecatomb one must withstand to become a Gold Medalist is daunting.

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mendicant

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a beggar

Mendicants now flood the beautiful, expensive streets of San Francisco.

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wuthering

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moving forcefully

Heathcliff and Cathy met on the Moors swept by the wuthering winds.

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trenchant

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penetrating

The Teachers Board withered at the parents trenchant criticisms.

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auspices

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patronage

Dvorak composed the New World Symphony under the auspices of Jeannette Thurber, the urinal cake heiress.

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contronym

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a word that is its own antonym

Bolt means to secure as well as run free and is a contronym.

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belomancy

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divination with darts or arrows by Assyrians and Babylonians

St. Sebastian was a study in belomancy by all appearances.

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dap
to dip gently onto the surface of the water The dove’s feather dapped onto the pool.
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bema
a ceremonial raised platform The priest gave the homily from the bema.
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auto-da-fe
burning at the stake Another Joan of Arc auto-da-fe
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avatars
high priests or demi-gods Green New Deal avatars proclaim the worlds end in a decade…lol.
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quiddity
the essence of something The quidditiy of Socialism is stupidity.
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truculent
bellicose , ready to fight China’s truculent displays in Taiwan should be heeded and denounced by the world collectively.
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wontless
unaccustomed The Queen is wontless with respect to poverty.
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meretricious
looking like a whore The meretricious black girls twerked on top of the destroyed Chicago police car.
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hector
to bully and badger Jimmy Creasel hectored Niles.
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berm
a narrow strip of grass or path beside a road The City Mowers attacked the berm in a cloud of dust along Highway 1.
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dapocaginous dop oh cah giness
mean spirited, heartless The belluine dapocaginous black youth beat to death old Chinese woman.
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avuncular
ch by behavior of a benevolent uncle Biden’s sniffing little girls hair is not avuncular, but fucking creepy.
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pendragon
the chief leader , King Arthur’s father Kim Jo Yung is the pendragon of North Korea.
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turpitude
moral depravity The depth of Bill Clinton’s turpitude was conveniently covered over by Epstein’s so-called suicide.
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wizened
shriveled and dried up The 80 year old beach bum was wizened as a prune.
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meritocracy
rule by the best We are no longer a meritocracy but a stultocracy.
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hegemony
predominance USA hegemony no longer exists.
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beshrew
to wish harm on I beshrew Biden, Pelosi, Schumer, AOC, and HRC.
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bield
to shelter a person I will always bield my children with my life.
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becket
a device to hold something in place The becket on the boom broke and swept the sailor overboard.
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kemp
a champion warrior or athlete in Scotland Rod Strachan is a kemp.
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animadversions
adverse criticisms if you cannot handle animadversions, then don’t go into politics.
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wistful
having an unfulfilled yearning I am wistful about seeing the Indian Ocean sea-life.
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metempsychosis
the passing of the soul from one body to another Metempsychosis is bullshit.
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heliotrope
reddish purple The helliotropic rash spread to his chest.
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debellate
to conquer through battle Hannibal debellated the Roman legions at Cannae.
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belletristic
speech or writing more interested in literary quality than substance Belletristic writing was popular in the letters amongst politicians in the 1850s.
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esurient
voraciously greedy Bezos while rich is an esurient prick.
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co-opt
to appropriate something that is not yours for ones own use The Bolsheviks co-opted city mansions for the desperate peasants.
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winsome
charming The winsome Princess was the belle of the ball.
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metutials
small irritating chores that must be done first The metutial Morning shave sucks.
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birse
injury of someone by crowding pressure The New York subways birse passengers all the time.
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hercynian
of a mountain range covered with forests of pines The hercynian range of near Snowmass was always so beautiful.
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decoct
to prepare by boiling The CBD solution was decocted from the cannabis.
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parti pris
preconceived bias The Green Book dealt with parti pris.
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dissemble
to conceal ones true feelings At SLOB I dissembled my hatred.
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alterity
the state of being different My alterity made me a loner.
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bellicose
war like North Korea is always bellicose.
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hermeneutical
ch by interpretation The hermeneutical analysis of Revelations is hotly debated.
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microlipet
someone who gets upset over trivial things After all she has gone through, Lele is an angst ridden microlipet.
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weltschmerz
world weariness Covid has caused a universal weltschmerz.
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birsle
to warm thoroughly After all day in the snow he birsled by the fire
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haptic
pertaining to the sense of touch The haptics of the new keyboard suck.
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blabagogy
a criminal environment We need to refund police to deal with blabagogy.
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hamartophobia
a fear of sinning I have hamartophobia.
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weir
a low dam across a river to catch fish Weirs are illegal now.
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misomaniac
one who hates everything Ilhan Omar is an ugly souled misomaniac.
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haetera
a greek concubine The clergy of Tudor England all kept haetera and paid for bisphorics.
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doctrinaire
maintaining a stubborn attitude towards ones views The doctrinaire attitude of the Democrats will cost them.
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bereft
completely deprived of Serial Killers are bereft of morality.
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dedans
tennis court spectators The dedans heads pivoted back and firth during the lengthy Borg volley.
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beneficence
goodness or kindness None question Amy’s beneficence.
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Boeotian
dull and stupid Boeotian Biden continues to raise the bar of stupidity.
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amyctic
itchy and irritating I threw away the amyctic wool underwear.
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misoneist
one who hates new things Luddites are misoneists. at heart.
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gnathonic
flattering and deceitful Iago is gnathonic with Othello.
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weal
ones vitality Nadh tablets improve my weal.
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epithets
derogatory names Brandon is now an epithet.
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hieratic
used by priests The Sacraments are hieratic.
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teratoid
monstrous or misshapen The teratoid Quasimodo scrambled up to the Belfry.
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fustian
pompous or pretentious Frasier is fustian.
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hierophant
high priest The Satanic hierophant sacrificed the child.
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bongre
with good will The Build Back Better Bill was created bongre, but ended up after all the amendments being an utter disaster.
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misprision
the unintentional failure to perform ones duties His inadvertent missteps led them to charge him with misprision.
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Benthamite
utility=morality As a hardened Benthamite he believed in euthanasia.
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erudition
great knowledge of many things My erudition intimidates some people.
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matutolypea
getting up on the wrong side of the bed AOC is suffering from chronic matutolypea.
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whelp
a despised person or offspring Any male whelp challenging the Tudors quickly found his head rolling on the ground.
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latitant
lying in wait The Lusitania ignored the report of latitant U-Boats in her area.
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hidebound
bound by convention or habit, unwilling to change What a hidebound couple we must appear to be?
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tattoo
the beat of a drum The thin rain beat a tattoo.
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diffidence
the ch. by being unassertive Because of her diffidence, she did not ask for a raise.
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gaucherie
a clumsy act I was ashamed of my gaucherie.
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patent paytent
obvious It would have been patent to anyone else.
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sardonic
derisive humor “Ah its the pity special today.” I said sardonically.
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blowzy
unkempt The blowzy desk was littered with scientific articles on magnetic monopoles and Reese’s wrappers.
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fulsome
excessive, overdone The fulsome praise of I’m-A-Camel Harris is nauseating.
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morganized
to kill or kidnap someone to maintain a secret The Clintons morganized many.
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borak noun
ridicule The borak of Berack is completely appropriate.
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bombast
pretentious or inflated speech What a bunch of bombast!
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fatidic
prophetic Lot’s fatidic statement on Sodom and Gomorrah went unheeded.
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wan
suggesting unhappiness or ill health Kate’s wan smile tells me the Keegan issue is unresolved
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poiesis
creative power 1993 was the peak of my poiesis.
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holography
a hand written will Howard Hughes holography was impugned.

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