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[pandiculation] noun; stretching or yawning before going to bed or after waking up

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[Blessings on him who first invented sleep.]

Miguel de Cervantes

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[wimple] noun; the traditional headdress of nuns

QUOTE|of the day

[With or without religion you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.]

Steven Weinberg

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[sunder] transitive verb; to break apart or in two

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[Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!]

H.D. Thoreau

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[palliate] transitive verb; to cover by excuses or apologies; to moderate the intensity of

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[Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.]

W. Somerset Maugham

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[confabulate] intransitive verb; to talk informally; to hold a discussion; to fill in gaps in memory by fabrication

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[I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.]

Emo Phillips

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[aggrandize] transitive verb; to make great or greater; to increase or enlarge

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[Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.]

Dalton Camp

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[begird] transitive verb; to surround, encompass

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[Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.]

Douglas Adams

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[dissimulate] verb; to hide under a false pretense

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[A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.]

Victor Hugo

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[susurration] noun; a whisper or murmer

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[In the absolute hush, I could hear plainly its thin murmurs of life.]

Charlotte Brönte (Jane Eyre)

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[warison] noun; a musical note used to signal the start of an attack

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[No opera plot can be sensible, for in sensible situations people do not sing.]

W.H. Auden

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[jentacular] adjective; pertaining to breakfast

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[Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.]

Oscar Wilde

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[waggoner] noun; a collection or book of nautical maps

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[All in the golden afternoon

Full leisurely we glide;

For both our oars, with little skill,

By little arms are plied,

While little hands make vain pretense

Our wanderings to guide.]

Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)

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[eroteme] noun; a mark denoting a question or interrogation, i.e. a question mark

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[What is the use of a use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?]

H.D. Thoreau

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[divagate] intransitive verb; to wander or stray from a course or subject

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[I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.]

Douglas Adams

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[defenestrate] transitive verb; to throw a person or thing out of a window; to swiftly dismiss or expel (as from a political party or office)

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[Never fight an inanimate object.]

P.J. O'Rourke

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[aubade] noun; a love song that is sung at dawn

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[Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.]

Kahlil Gibran

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[autovoxiphillia] noun; love of one's own voice

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[There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves.]

Albert Guinon

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[edacious] adjective; voracious and devouring

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[I want to remember every minute, always, always to the end of my days.]

"Brief Encounter" (1945)

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[daedalian] adjective; ingenious and cunningly designed

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[Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.]

Howard Aiken

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[asthenic] adjective; being lean or frail

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[Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.]

H.D. Thoreau

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[chirotony] noun; an election by show of hands

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[Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made president should on no account be allowed to do the job.]

Douglas Adams

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[arithmophobia] noun; a fear of numbers

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[My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.]

P.J. Plauger

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[eleemosynary] adjective; of, relating to, or supported by charity

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[Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold; the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.]

Democritus

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[baize] noun; the green cloth used on billiards tables or other gaming tables

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[The problem with the universe is that everyone is a few drinks behind.]

Humphrey Bogart

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[abderian] adjective; given to incessant or idiotic laughter

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[Never play peekaboo with a child on a long plane trip. There's no end to the game. Finally, I grabbed him by the bib and said, "Look, it's always gonna be me!"]

Rita Rudner

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[schwack] adjective; a large amount

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[A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.]

Robert Benchley

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[euonym] noun; a name well suited to the person, place, or thing named

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[Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.]

George Carlin

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[logorrhea] noun; excessive and often incoherent talkativeness or wordiness

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[Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.]

Alfred Hitchcock

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[demarche] noun; a course of action or maneuver

QUOTE|of the day

[Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.]

Oscar Wilde

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[guerdon] noun; something that one has earned or gained; a reward, recompense, requital

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[Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.]

Ayn Rand

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[gallimaufry] noun; hodgepodge

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[Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?" Then a voice says, "This is going to take more than one night."]

Charles Shulz