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pseudepigraphy
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the false ascription of a piece of writing to an author.
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pseudology
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For example, listening to the life history account of Andras Albert, a Transylvanian lumberman,
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couthie
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Occasionally he'd stab one of the buttons, never managing to stop the machines' couthie chatter of grunts and whistles.
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exordium
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The beginning of anything.
The introductory part of an oration, treatise, etc. |
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fastigiate
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As Rachel's neighbour was to be an Irish Water Spaniel's swamp cypress, likely to spread with time, they had opted for something deciduous and columnar, a fastigiate English oak.
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mulligrubs
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That's a comfortable place to be. The barber chuckled. You're a philosopher, sir, a philosopher.I am, but I'm a blue one. I have the blue mulligrubs."
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pontificate
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1. To speak in a pompous or dogmatic manner.
2. To perform the office or duties of a pontiff. 3. To serve as a bishop, especially in a Pontifical Mass. |
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biblioklept
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A person who steals books.
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potvaliancy
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rave only as a result of being drunk.
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agape
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1. Unselfish love of one person for another without sexual implications.
2. The love of Christians for other persons, corresponding to the love of God for humankind. |
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zeugma
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The use of a word to modify or govern two or more words when it is appropriate to only one of them or is appropriate to each but in a different way, as in to wage war and peace or On his fishing trip, he caught three trout and a cold.
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litotes
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Understatement, especially that in which an affirmative is expressed by the negative of its contrary, as in “not bad at all.”
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plotz
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to collapse or faint, as from surprise, excitement, or exhaustion.
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antipathetic
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opposed, averse, or contrary.
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hypnopompic
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pertaining to the semiconscious state prior to complete wakefulness.
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advert
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to remark or comment; refer.
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inchoate
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partly but not fully in existence or operation.
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