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Mythologize
"In America they really do mythologize people when they die." Said by the late
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Rake
A Jeopardy clue: 'Garden tool' and also ' Immoral Pleasure Seeker'
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Ilk
On CNN. "ISIS and other terrorist organizations of that ilk..."
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Deseret
A second-hand thrift store in my town is called Deseret Industries.
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Panto
In Evelyn Waugh's Vile Bodies: "You're angels, not a panto, see?"
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Continence
Continence is the foe of heresy. For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway
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Dum Spiro, Spero
The motto of st Andrews golf course.
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Brummagem
"a brummagem farthing", in Patrick O'Brian's Master & Commander series
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Degustation
On the 'Lette Macarons website "For best degustation, our macarons should
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Rhetoric
According to a biography, Abraham Lincoln an avid student of rhetoric.
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Doxology
Doxology is name of Samuel’s horse in Steinbeck’s "East Of Eden.”
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Counterpane
My grandmother called the covering on her bed a counterpane.
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Muggy
A forecast for a muggy day made me wonder about the origin of the word
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Melisma
A Pandora radio description of Bobby "Blue" Bland's style of singing
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Ambage
The fake poet Ern Malley: Simplicity in our time is arrived at by an ambages
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