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RE: Word Fight - 4/18/2006 10:11:28 AM   
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RE: Word Fight - 4/18/2006 10:14:07 AM   
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RE: Word Fight - 4/18/2006 10:18:02 AM   
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Next word...I say next word..."adust"..."adust"...

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RE: Word Fight - 4/18/2006 10:26:46 AM   
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  "..."adust"...

Sunburned, I think

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RE: Word Fight - 4/18/2006 5:47:50 PM   
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RE: Word Fight - 4/18/2006 8:56:00 PM   
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Status: offline 		"Adust" means scorched, burned to a crisp.  Not sunburned.

I had no idea what "xebec" means, so I looked it up.  Laugh.  That's a great Scrabble word.

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RE: Word Fight - 4/19/2006 5:05:48 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Lordandmaster

"Adust" means scorched, burned to a crisp.  Not sunburned.

I had no idea what "xebec" means, so I looked it up.  Laugh.  That's a great Scrabble word.

Isn't it? I was watching some show on television when they mentioned Xebec lol. I had to go look it up, I had never heard it before. It's a fun word though
 
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RE: Word Fight - 4/19/2006 9:31:04 AM   
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RE: Word Fight - 4/19/2006 10:17:57 AM   
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Next one..."deracinated"

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RE: Word Fight - 4/19/2006 10:31:12 AM   
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..."deracinated"

Removing from it's natural environment; sort of like what we did with the slaves when they were brought from Africa to here.
 
"Zakuski"

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RE: Word Fight - 4/19/2006 1:06:37 PM   
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Status: offline 		No idea.  That looks like a proper name.

Edited to add: I looked it up.  Not a proper name.  Wow, where are you getting these words???  I wonder how many people know what "zakuski" means.

"Deracinated" means literally "uprooted."

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RE: Word Fight - 4/19/2006 4:33:43 PM   
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Edited to add: I looked it up.  Not a proper name.  Wow, where are you getting these words???  I wonder how many people know what "zakuski" means.

LOL believe it or not, I actually come across these words either on television, or from reading. I am both blessed and cursed with a memory that does not let go of something once I latch on.

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RE: Word Fight - 4/19/2006 8:09:51 PM   
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RE: Word Fight - 4/20/2006 4:53:36 AM   
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"vermiculation

The movement of the intestines as they contract
 
"Orihon"

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RE: Word Fight - 4/20/2006 9:20:40 AM   
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Status: offline 		That's right.  I think the more commonly used sense is "worm-eaten," as in "a vermiculated corpse."

"Orihon" means folded book (like a Hallmark card)--but it's a Japanese word.  Oh, I see that it's in OED, so I guess it counts.

Next one..."chrestomathy"

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RE: Word Fight - 4/20/2006 9:24:15 AM   
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RE: Word Fight - 4/20/2006 9:36:46 AM   
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Status: offline 		They're nearly synonyms, but usually a chrestomathy refers to a collection of excerpts, and an anthology to a collection of whole works.  (The etymologies are interesting too: a "chrestomathy" contains things that are useful for learning; an "anthology" is a gathering of things, like a bouquet of flowers.)

Your turn, bandit.

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RE: Word Fight - 4/20/2006 9:48:22 AM   
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RE: Word Fight - 4/20/2006 10:21:04 AM   
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Not so fast there smut-peddlars.....

I am dying to know what a zakuski is..........

I have looked all over and came up short..... mene mene (you know what i mean)

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RE: Word Fight - 4/20/2006 11:25:10 AM   
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Zakuski's are hors d'oeuvres; specifically Russian hors d'oeuvres

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