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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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mccaff's Words
schadenfreude, defenestration, monogamous, epipsychidion, chintz, befall, brouhaha, shenanigans, hooligans, lambasted, servitude, portcullis and 113 more...
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Not Quite The Real Thang
masquerade, sham, counterfeit, shyster, phoney, bogus, pseudo, artificial, fabricated, mock, concocted, false and 158 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1381 more...
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Catonroberts's list
Black Cat Bastard
Parsimonious
Buffet Ballblack cat bastard, potemkin village, scofflaw, pedagogy, vatic, showmanship, abnegate, thylacine, parsimonious
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Misdirector's Cut
Hey...
—> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> —> LOOK OVER THERE! —> —> —>
...sneaky, legerdemain, flimflam, unwittingly, clandestine, hornswoggle, sleveen, subversion, espionage, incognito, subreption, gank and 147 more...
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Super-fishy
Whut. Huh. Make it quick, I's gotsta go TV or whatever. Huh? That's too brainy.
Boobs.holophrasis, perfunctory, desultory, sciolist, smattering, epigone, velleity, dilettante, simulacrum, shallow, one-dimensional, noddy and 68 more...
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Phraseology
vagina dentata, pyrrhic victory, primordial soup, tilting at windmills, indian giver, potemkin village, put the kibosh on, molotov cocktail, penny dreadful, stockholm syndrome, devil's advocate, dog days and 6 more...
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Dictionary.com Words of the Days of 2004
1999 · 2000 · 2001 · 2002 · 2003 · 2004 · 2005 · 2006 · 2007 · 2008
As it turns out, WotD really enjoys repeating itself. Though mildly infuriating it was, I've added the fi...buss, roue, abecedarian, crabwise, glabrous, tarradiddle, irrupt, agrestic, cap-a-pie, fetor, olla podrida, primogeniture and 31 more...
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While Europe Slept/America Alone/Amer...
Words gathered during my recent "current affairs" reading bender.
It's not an addiction, I can quit any time I want.proforma, distaff, senescent, simplisme, arrondissement, brasserie, cynosure, entente, inure, elision, contrariety, calumny and 53 more...
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whichbe A false front or facade. May 20, 2008