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Filibuster
1. A pest control agency founded by one of the characters from LoTR.
2. Part of a car engine.
Vertigo
A dizzying shade of green.
Exterminate
Divorce with extreme prejudice.
Circumspection
Audit at a bris.
One of the many things I learned from reading Terry Pratchett:
Peer
Someone who suffers from incontinence.
Terabyte
1. A pest control agency founded by one of the characters from LoTR.
2. Part of a car engine.
Vertigo
A dizzying shade of green.
Exterminate
Divorce with extreme prejudice.
Circumspection
Audit at a bris.
One of the many things I learned from reading Terry Pratchett:
Peer
Someone who suffers from incontinence.
Terabyte
Oh, a change is coming, feel these doors now closing
Is there no world for tomorrow, if we wait for today?
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Worsification
A word usually ascribed to bad poetry but can also be used to define a spate of bad luck.
An Amish rudimentary communications machine.
Cation
A word usually ascribed to bad poetry but can also be used to define a spate of bad luck.
Flaxfrom the Alley Catalmanac (1956)
Due to a worsification of sales this year the following publishing catteries have gone out of business [...]
An Amish rudimentary communications machine.
Cation
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Bilirubin
1. A country singer.
2. A type of brittle quartz, usually reddish in color.
Extraneous
Pertaining to a defunct railroad.
Defunct
Removal of a strong odor.
Eclaircise
Calisthenics after consuming too many pastries.
Onomatopoeia
1. A country singer.
2. A type of brittle quartz, usually reddish in color.
Extraneous
Pertaining to a defunct railroad.
Defunct
Removal of a strong odor.
Eclaircise
Calisthenics after consuming too many pastries.
Onomatopoeia
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Is there no world for tomorrow, if we wait for today?
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Teliferous
Pleasant-sounding. The teliferous melody of songbirds.
Ratified
Gnawed by rodents.
Egalitarian
Some kind of fad diet.
That site that Wayfriend linked continues to fascinate me. There are words in there that cannot be improved on.
Tiromancy = divination using cheese
But what kind of cheese? I would guess a veined cheese would work best - perhaps somewhat akin to reading a palm. Under that theory, wouldn't one be telling the cheese's fortune? Is... is there a market for that?
Tormentum
Pleasant-sounding. The teliferous melody of songbirds.
Ratified
Gnawed by rodents.
Egalitarian
Some kind of fad diet.
That site that Wayfriend linked continues to fascinate me. There are words in there that cannot be improved on.
Tiromancy = divination using cheese
But what kind of cheese? I would guess a veined cheese would work best - perhaps somewhat akin to reading a palm. Under that theory, wouldn't one be telling the cheese's fortune? Is... is there a market for that?
Tormentum
Oh, a change is coming, feel these doors now closing
Is there no world for tomorrow, if we wait for today?
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