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- Esoterica Volume 1
- Jim Weiler
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- Copyright 1994 Softdisk Publishing\nAll rights reserved
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- Peanuts
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- incandescent
- glowing, radiant
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- milquetoast
- meek, timid person
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- convoluted
- twisted, coiled
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- adit
- mine entrance
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- agenhina
- inn guest
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- erugate
- smooth
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- mang
- go astray
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- obganiate
- irritate with reiteration
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- picaroon
- a pirate
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- quaintise
- strategem
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- renascent, adj.
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- born again
- glowing
- reminiscent
- crochety
- remote
- Walter always felt renascent after a long winter trapped in the mountain cabin.
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- frambesia, n.
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- yaws
- a large wind instrument
- senility
- jawbone
- crossed eyes
- Walter's frambesia caused his former friends to shun him.
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- noematical, adj.
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- mental
- physical
- mathematical
- social
- dance
- Walter's noematical faculties were evaporating rapidly.
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- pelmata, n.
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- the sole of the foot
- a bleeding sore
- arthritis
- forehead
- a breed of donkey
- Old Walt had to stop prospecting for the day because of the pain in his pelmata.
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- trygon, n.
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- sting ray
- abdominal cramp
- typhoon
- depth charge
- triangular doorway
- Walter gave up scuba diving after a trygon caught him unawares one day.
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- gorget, n.
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- throat patch
- song
- flight path
- mating dance
- spatula
- Walter was fascinated by the bird's striking gorget.
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- grobian, n.
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- boor
- taxman
- small, insect-eating lizard
- mizer
- leper
- Walter was a grobian. People avoided him whenever they could.
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- bergstock, n.
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- spiked climbing pole
- buttock
- the back of the head
- pack mule
- tame reindeer
- Walter died when he fell 50 feet and landed on his bergstock.
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- acromonogrammatic, adj.
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- starting with end of last line
- making up words as you go
- using abusive language
- monosyllabic
- sesquipedalian
- Walter's acromonogrammatic writing was so contrived that nobody enjoyed it.
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- baldicoot, n.
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- monk
- curmudgeon
- convicted felon
- bee larva
- embezzler
- Walter spent most of his time alone in his cell -- he was a baldicoot.
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- buccal, adj.
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- pertaining to the mouth
- decayed
- breathless
- tongueless
- chemically inactive
- Walter sat down and showed the dentist his buccal cavity.
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- amorphous, adj.
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- shapeless
- reptilian
- colorful
- loving
- bright
- Walter was proud of his amorphous lump of clay.
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- contumacy, n.
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- disobedience
- congruence
- silliness
- well-contoured
- having to do with money
- Walter severely resented his dog's contumacy.
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- corpulent, adj.
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- fat
- pertaining to divisions
- becoming a corpse
- spendthrift
- round and shiny
- Walter consistently overfed his corpulent sloth.
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- corrigible, adj.
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- able to be improved
- having many hallways
- unhappy
- easily made aggitated
- blimp-like
- Walter is corrigible, responding well to parental guidance.
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- cursory, adj.
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- superficial
- controlled with a mouse
- extremely violent
- protruding from a wall
- in the Ursa constellations
- To Walter, world-dominance is a cursory concern.
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- debacle, n.
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- rout
- object having no bacles
- beam laid over a fence
- kitchen implement
- method of dehydration
- Walter was miffed at the debacle of his team.
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- demit, v.
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- relinquish
- to remove one's gloves
- commit atrocious acts
- to bestow a name upon something
- to steal things of little value
- Walter was forced to demit his monacle collection to the historical society.
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- demographics, n.
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- statistics of population
- demonstrations of visuals
- public expositions of artwork
- maps of terrain
- objects lying on the ground
- Walter did not fit the Arcturian demographic profile.
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- etymology, n.
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- study of word origins
- study of insects
- study of birds
- study of microscopic organisms
- study of burnt flesh
- Walter love of etymology led him to pore over old tomes.
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- excoriate, v.
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- censure
- execute by casting down from a high place
- to evict from a society or organization
- to flush out
- to eviscerate with a blunt object
- Walter could not bring himself to excoriate the bad dog.
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- exemplary, adj.
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- serving as a model
- exempt from certain laws
- having unnatural appendages
- infected with unidentified bacteria
- stretching from one side to another
- Walter's demeanor was hardly exemplary.
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- exigency, n.
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- urgency
- an extra item
- regent or monarch
- adherence to self-serving means
- dated legislation
- Walter refused to panic when faced with an insurmountable exigency.
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- exorcise, v.
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- free from evil spirits
- to engage in physical exertion
- remove the incisors from
- to slam into a pane of glass
- to stomp small fish into the mud
- Walter wanted to exorcise his possessed toaster.
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- fallow, adj.
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- uncultivated
- shallow ruts
- having pale color
- not suitable for large audiences
- unsightly
- Walter's fallow garden drove him to near starvation.
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- fillibuster, v.
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- obstruct passage of a bill
- to absorb liquids
- to trap an opponents ball (in croquet)
- to improve flinging abilities
- to drool from the corners of the mouth
- Walter winced when his entitlement legislation was fillibustered.
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- gerrymander, v.
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- unfairly assign districts
- a species of mander (includes the salamander)
- to throw elections
- assemble for temporary use
- to engineer using new technology
- Walter made sure the districts were gerrymandered to ensure his re-election.
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- hyperbole, n.
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- gross exaggeration
- a plane curve having two branches
- a poor haircut
- microscopic unit of measurement
- excess of cholesterol in the blood
- Walter's claim that he owned a ton and a half of plutonium was only hyperbole.
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- inculcate, v.
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- teach by frequent repetition
- to commit random and senseless acts
- to prune at the root
- to snatch from a table
- to regurgitate stomach acids
- Walter inculcated into his dog the ability to fetch the newspaper boy.
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- privation, n.
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- lack of comforts
- to remove property from public control
- a bright red rash
- deprived of motivation
- to snoop into someone's business
- Walter's suffered extreme privation because of the flood.
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- probity, n.
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- uprightness
- arthritis
- a bright red rash
- deprived of motivation
- prying into someone's business
- After Walter stole a purse, he wondered about his own probity.
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- salubrious, adj.
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- beneficial
- salivating profusely
- morose
- silly
- ostogomatious
- Walter's salubrious friends helped him make a nice, healthy salad.
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- scintillate, v.
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- sparkle
- stimulate
- agitate with smells
- move in a wave-like manner
- cut with an ice skate
- The ice scintillated under Walter's skates.
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- sebaceous, adj.
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- secreting fat
- large and infected
- crusted with calcium
- oozing profusely
- glasslike
- Walter had a sebaceous cyst on his nose.
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- supernal, adj.
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- celestial
- having super abilities
- superficial, external
- scolding violently
- on top of the head
- Walter was amused by the supernal display above him.
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- tare, n.
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- deduction from gross weight
- money paid for passage
- a type of jerky
- a south Austrian fruit
- poisonous sap
- Before proceeding with the experiments, Walter weighed the tare.
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- vulpine, adj.
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- foxlike
- wolflike
- slothlike
- batlike
- vulplike
- Walter's vulpine reply deceived the simple peasant, and he soon parted with the money.
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- bailiwick, n.
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- field of interest
- small arch made of wire
- geology
- questionable possession
- means of support
- Astronomy wasn't Walter's bailiwick, but he still owned a telescope.
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- banal, adj.
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- commonplace
- having to do with the upper body
- slammed into a concrete block
- packaged in paper boxes
- heard with both ears
- After the excitement of the honeymoon, Walter's life had become quite banal.
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- bellwether, n.
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- one who leads
- hackles
- jowels
- bowels
- instinct
- Walter always did what his bellwether told him.
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- bibliophile, n.
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- lover of books
- lover of livers
- lover of small, wiggling biblios
- lover of the Bible
- book store
- Walter never learned to read but was, nevertheless, a bibliophile.
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- calender, v.
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- press between rollers
- enumerating dates
- strain
- make a wax facial impression
- impale on a pike
- Walter's papyrus was unusable because he forgot to calender it.
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- canorous, adj.
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- melodious
- cylindrical
- loud and sonorous
- meat-eating
- woven of rattans
- The canorous strains of the symphony could be heard even in the street.
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- cozen, v.
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- deceive
- cuddle
- kill a witch
- marry
- cut with an ice skate
- Walter cozened his cousin and had to go to jail.
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- reprobate, n.
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- unprincipled person
- court of last appeal
- gunfighter
- battle-hardened soldier
- weak old man
- The old reprobate pounded Walter about the head.
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- peccadillo, n.
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- a small offense
- a stout, armored animal
- a wild pig from Mexico
- a bizarre drawing
- a made-up story
- Ma often scolded Walter for his frequent peccadillos.
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