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bloviate
American writer H. L. Mencken, always bordering on bloviation himself, described a less interesting bloviator, President Warren G. Harding, thusly:

He writes the worst English that I have ever encountered. It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself out of the dark abysm of pish, and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash.
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december 2011 by earth2marsh
Putting regular expressions to work in Word - Help and How-to - Microsoft Office Online
Documents Word's regex language. Why oh why do I need to learn yet another quirky rexeg variant?
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may 2009 by earth2marsh
Antimetabole - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
the repetition of words in successive clauses, but in transposed grammatical order (ex: "I know what I like, and I like what I know").
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september 2008 by earth2marsh
Word Matcher
neat tool, helpful for finding rhymes and other wordy things
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august 2008 by earth2marsh
Games for two players, no pieces, no board. | Ask Metafilter
You and your partner each think of a word or phrase -- typically a noun, but it doesn't have to be. Ready? Count to three together, then say your words at the same time... Now you each have to think of a new word or phrase that somehow relates
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june 2008 by earth2marsh
zymurgy - Wiktionary
The chemistry of fermentation with yeasts, especially the science involved in beer and wine making.
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march 2008 by earth2marsh
autodidact - Wiktionary
A self-taught person; an automath.
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march 2008 by earth2marsh
ululate - Wiktionary
to howl loudly or prolongedly in lamentation or joy
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march 2008 by earth2marsh
Longest word - Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitänswitwenrentenauszahlungsstelle
So it´s: the place where the widows of captains who drive steam ships on which you can go for a "trip" on the Danube can collect their pension
german  word  longest  language  captain  pension  danube  widow  steamship 
february 2008 by earth2marsh
Read Text from a Scanned Document into Word with OCR
Microsoft Office Tools -> Microsoft Office Document Imaging
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january 2008 by earth2marsh
Free PDF to Word Doc Converter - easy and powerful pdf converter software.
a desktop document conversion tool to convert Adobe PDF file to Microsoft Word Doc file
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january 2008 by earth2marsh
Definition of deluge - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
an overflowing of the land by water; a drenching rain2 an overwhelming amount or number
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december 2007 by earth2marsh
Definition of wisteria - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
any of a genus (Wisteria) of mostly woody leguminous vines of China, Japan, and the southeastern United States that have pinnately compound leaves and long racemes of showy blue, white, purple, or rose papilionaceous flowers
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december 2007 by earth2marsh
Definition of onomatopoeia - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
the naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it
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december 2007 by earth2marsh
Definition of soliloquy - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
the act of talking to oneself a dramatic monologue that represents a series of unspoken reflections
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december 2007 by earth2marsh
Definition of confound - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
to throw (a person) into confusion or perplexity to fail to discern differences between
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december 2007 by earth2marsh
Definition of syzygy - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
the nearly straight-line configuration of three celestial bodies
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december 2007 by earth2marsh
Definition of xenophobia - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign
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december 2007 by earth2marsh
Definition of whimsy - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
whim, caprice the quality or state of being whimsical or fanciful
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december 2007 by earth2marsh
Definition of voluptuous - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
full of delight or pleasure to the senses suggesting sensual pleasure by fullness and beauty of form given to or spent in enjoyment of luxury, pleasure, or sensual gratifications
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december 2007 by earth2marsh
Definition of vicissitude - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
the quality or state of being changeable : mutability natural change or mutation visible in nature or in human affairs a favorable or unfavorable event or situation that occurs by chance
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december 2007 by earth2marsh
Definition of unction - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
the act of anointing as a rite of consecration or healing religious or spiritual fervor or the expression of such fervor
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december 2007 by earth2marsh
Definition of umbrage - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
a feeling of pique or resentment at some often fancied slight or insult
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december 2007 by earth2marsh
Definition of serendipity - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought for
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december 2007 by earth2marsh
Definition of sashay - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
to strut or move about in an ostentatious or conspicuous manner to proceed or move in a diagonal or sideways manner
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december 2007 by earth2marsh
Definition of mercurial - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
characterized by rapid and unpredictable changeableness of mood having qualities of eloquence, ingenuity, or thievishness attributed to the god Mercury or to the influence of the planet Mercury
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december 2007 by earth2marsh
Definition of quixotic - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals; especially : marked by rash lofty romantic ideas or extravagantly chivalrous action
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december 2007 by earth2marsh
Definition of temerity - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
unreasonable or foolhardy contempt of danger or opposition
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december 2007 by earth2marsh
Definition of pusillanimous - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
lacking courage and resolution : marked by contemptible timidity
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december 2007 by earth2marsh
Definition of perfunctory - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
characterized by routine or superficiality : mechanical <a perfunctory smile> lacking in interest or enthusiasm
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december 2007 by earth2marsh
Definition of obstreperous - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
marked by unruly or aggressive noisiness : clamorous stubbornly resistant to control
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december 2007 by earth2marsh
Definition of anachronism - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
a chronological misplacing of persons, events, objects, or customs in regard to each other a person or a thing that is chronologically out of place; especially : one from a former age that is incongruous in the present
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december 2007 by earth2marsh
Definition of miasma - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
a vaporous exhalation formerly believed to cause disease; also : a heavy vaporous emanation or atmosphere
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december 2007 by earth2marsh
Definition of malaprop - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
the usually unintentionally humorous misuse or distortion of a word or phrase
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december 2007 by earth2marsh
Definition of ludicrous - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
amusing or laughable through obvious absurdity, incongruity, exaggeration, or eccentricity
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december 2007 by earth2marsh
Definition of juxtaposition - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
the act or an instance of placing two or more things side by side
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december 2007 by earth2marsh
Definition of fricative - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
a consonant characterized by frictional passage of the expired breath through a narrowing at some point in the vocal tract
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december 2007 by earth2marsh
Floccinaucinihilipilification - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
the act or habit of estimating or describing something as worthless, or making something to be worthless by deprecation
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december 2007 by earth2marsh
Definition of facetious - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
joking or jesting often inappropriately meant to be humorous or funny
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Definition of esoteric - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone of special, rare, or unusual interest
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december 2007 by earth2marsh
Definition of euphemism - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
the substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant
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december 2007 by earth2marsh
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