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RE: Word Fight - 4/23/2006 5:44:28 PM

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Just looked that one up..damn and I thought I had an extensive vocabulary.

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RE: Word Fight - 4/23/2006 7:10:41 PM

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quote:

peculation"

embezzle

"Mesembryanthemum"

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RE: Word Fight - 4/23/2006 7:18:49 PM

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Hey, embezzleMENT. Let's be rigorous...

"Mesembryanthemum" means "middle embryo flower." My vote is that it has to be some kind of flower. Unless it's a gynecological term or something.

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RE: Word Fight - 4/23/2006 7:26:14 PM

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LMAO ok ok; the embezzlement of funds

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"Mesembryanthemum" means "middle embryo flower." My vote is that it has to be some kind of flower. Unless it's a gynecological term or something.

Closer with the first one. It's a plant with colorful flowers.

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RE: Word Fight - 4/23/2006 7:32:20 PM

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And here I was thinking "mesembryanthemum" might be a flowery name for the cervix or something.

"amercement"

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RE: Word Fight - 4/23/2006 7:32:58 PM

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Ate is the personnification of a mistake, an error.

as for peculation...i didnt check it out yet

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RE: Word Fight - 4/23/2006 7:34:21 PM

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damn...sorry, too late yet again (cry)

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RE: Word Fight - 4/23/2006 7:36:06 PM

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That doesn't sound quite right. Ate is a Greek goddess, the goddess of infatuation and foolishness. She would tempt men and then lead them into ruin; one time she even tempted her father, Zeus. There's a nice description of her in Iliad 19.

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Ate is the personnification of a mistake, an error.

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RE: Word Fight - 4/23/2006 7:40:15 PM

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amercement"

a penalty or a fine

"Phylogeny"

As Lordandmaster said, I always understood that Ate was a Greek Goddess. Maybe I should check and see if there are more definitions lol.

Edited to add link:
http://www.theoi.com/Daimon/Ate.html

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RE: Word Fight - 4/23/2006 7:44:53 PM

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Got the dictio of Pierre Grimal, Greek and romain mythology right in front of me LordandMaster. I looked up the definition of Ate in there :
Personnification of the Error. Light divinity, her foot only goes on the heads of the mortals without them knowing it. During the promise of Zeus where he sweared to give suprematie to the *first descendant of Persee who would see the light of day* and when he submitted Heracles to Eurysthée, Até faulted him. Zeus took vengeance on her by dropping her from the top of the Olympe. Ate felt in Phrygie, on a hill who took the name of *the Error's hill*.

There were many versions of one myth in the greek and romain time LAM. We could both be right

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RE: Word Fight - 4/23/2006 7:48:17 PM

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Evolutionary history

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RE: Word Fight - 4/23/2006 7:48:38 PM

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Well, yes, but it's more complicated than that. An "amercement" is a penalty, usually a fine, that a court imposes at its discretion, but what's interesting is that it's typically a LIGHTER fine than what the defendant would be obliged to pay for a specific offense. In other words, if you commit some kind of traffic violation, and plead your case, the judge could impose, as an amercement, a lighter fine than what the law stipulates. But sometimes it's used just to mean any arbitrary penalty.

"Phylogeny" is another one of the few scientific terms I know. It means the evolutionary development of a species.

Edited to add: Oops, looks like I'm too late. And yes, we agree on Ate now.

Next one..."ptarmic"...and I'm off to watch the Sopranos for a while.

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amercement"

a penalty or a fine

"Phylogeny"

As Lordandmaster said, I always understood that Ate was a Greek Goddess. Maybe I should check and see if there are more definitions lol.

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RE: Word Fight - 4/23/2006 7:53:25 PM

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Ptarmic is any substance that would cause a person to sneeze.

"Uakari"

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RE: Word Fight - 4/23/2006 9:26:06 PM

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OK...you KNEW "ptarmic"? I'm amazed.

You got me with "uakari."

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RE: Word Fight - 4/24/2006 5:06:13 AM

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OK...you KNEW "ptarmic"? I'm amazed.

You got me with "uakari."

Yes, I knew what ptarmic meant lol. I saw a show, oh, about 2 years ago on the reaction of specific muscles to sneezes and they talked in length about it lol.
I will wait and see if either murmur or bandit know what uakari are. Hint: they swing :)

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RE: Word Fight - 4/24/2006 6:39:56 AM

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And here I was thinking "mesembryanthemum" might be a flowery name for the cervix or something.

LOL if you want, I am sure I can find one for you

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RE: Word Fight - 4/24/2006 9:37:38 AM

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Got me on that one Tikkiee...I looked it up. Good hint tho.

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RE: Word Fight - 4/24/2006 12:07:03 PM

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"uakari" only monkey with a short tail. Really.

New word:

"anagnost"

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RE: Word Fight - 4/24/2006 12:39:05 PM

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"anagnost

Is a Cleric in a church

"Roble"

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RE: Word Fight - 4/24/2006 3:01:11 PM

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An "anagnost" is specifically a cleric who reads things aloud in the Orthodox Church (like a lector or prelector in the Roman Catholic Church). The etymology is revealing: the anagnostes is the person who does anagignoskein, or "making things known" by reading them aloud.

Don't know what "roble" is.

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