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epistolary (Wordsmith) libation (Dictionary.com)
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mathematicaster (Wordsmith) acedia (Merriam-Webster … should use it in a report card comment) idiotism (Worthless Word for the Day)
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subintelligitur (Wordsmith … great word) pedestrian (Dictionary.com) crepuscular (Merriam-Webster) cliosophic (Worthless Word for the Day)
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clou (Wordsmith) micronymy (Worthless Word for the Day)
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au fait (Wordsmith) temerity (Dictionary.com) oligopsony (Merriam-Webster) polyonymosity (Worthless Word for the Day)
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sanguine (Dictionary.com) disquiparant (Worthless Word for the Day)
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contumacious (Wordsmith) pleonasm (Merriam-Webster) mobile (OED) mutuatitial (Worthless Word for the Day)
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cacestogenous (Worthless Word for the Day) ellipsis (Dictionary.com) spume (… sort of; Merriam-Webster)
Latin in the Globe
Wow … what bills itself as “Canada’s National Newspaper” (we Westerners were always skeptical of such) incipits a piece thusly: Word play occurs in unexpected places. Diane Lane, while promoting her recent movie Nights in Rodanthe, branched into a brief discussion of “cide.” “To decide is a great word,” she said, “because it’s like fratricide, [...]
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expurgate (Dictionary.com) idiolalia (Worthless Word for the Day)
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lexical (Merriam-Webster) tome (Dictionary.com)
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pied (Wordsmith) osteopath (Dictionary.com) anecdote (Merriam-Webster)
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columbarium (Wordsmith) metathesis (Merriam-Webster) meronym (OED) jactancy (Worthless Word for the Day)
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interdict (Wordsmith) hypotyposis (Worthless Word for the Day) prescriptive (OED) cognate (Merriam-Webster) virtuoso (Dictionary.com)
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lares and penates (Wordsmith) acclaim (Dictionary.com) indubitable (Merriam-Webster) congregational (OED)
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dramatis personae (Wordsmith) primogeniture (Merriam-Webster) project (OED)
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in medias res (Wordsmith) obtuse (Merriam-Webster)
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ex libris (Wordsmith) vacuous (Dictionary.com) implacable (Merriam-Webster)
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encomiastic (Worthless Word for the Day) palatable (Merriam Webster) qualitative (Dictionary.com) endemic (endemic)
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gradation (OED) cohere (Wordsmith) obscure (Dictionary.com) oxymoron (Podictionary)