Classical Words
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cacestogenous (Worthless Word for the Day) ellipsis (Dictionary.com) spume (… sort of; Merriam-Webster)
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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)
rogue classicism 