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Thursday, July 19, 2007
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Fellow Logophiles,
Good morning! Here are the answers to the word scramble:
1) suzerain, 2) chimerical, 3) outre, 4) recidivism, and
5) caliginous.
Sincerely,
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WORD: donnybrook DON-ee-brook (noun)
: A brawl; a free-for-all
SYNONYMS: * quarrel
* dispute
* fight
WORD WISE: A donnybrook is so called after Donnybrook,
Ireland, a suburb of Dublin that once held an annual fair
known for its brawls.
QUOTE: "Wine and talk flow freely, so much so that the meal
ends with a Rooney family donnybrook over, typically enough,
religion and politics."
--Howard Frank Mosher, "24 Hours in Due East, S.C.," New
York Times, April 7, 1991
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BONUS WORD OF THE DAY: dilatory DIL-uh-tor-ee (adjec-
tive)
: Inclined to defer or put off what ought to be done at once
: Marked by procrastination or delay
Dilatory is from Latin dilatorius, from dilator, a dilatory
person, a loiterer, from dilatus, past participle of differo,
differre, to delay, to put off, from dis-, apart, in different
directions + fero, ferre, to carry.
OBSCURE AND UNUSUAL WORDS
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1) sudoriferous soo-duh-RIF-uhr-rus (adjective)
: sweaty or sweat producing.
From Late Latin sudorifer, from Latin sudor sweat, from
sudare (to sweat), ultimately from Indo-European root
sweid- (to sweat) that also resulted in words sweat and
exude.
2) fustilugs FUS-ti-lugs (noun)
: a fat and slovenly person.
From Middle English fusty (smelly, moldy) + lug (to
carry something heavy).
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