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Whomp, ameliorate, and defenestrate are all pretty good.
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Obfuscate and lurk
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Why do you have to discombobulate me with this type of question?
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postulate.
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sperlunking
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tweak
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Ponder. Dwell.
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Pontificate
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Educate, Liberate!
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Alleviate, Bifurcate,Concoct, Deviate, Expiate, Farrow, Gyrate, Hopp.....Zeal!
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Masticating something you have macerated. *hee*
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Hello Jodie. I must say that my favorite verb to use as little as possible is: "run" I refuse to do it unless someone is bleeding, and even then, it probably needs to be a small child for me to torture myself in this manner. My next favorite verb to avoid is: "Pay"... As in... Gas bills, 'lectric bills, insurance and taxes. Now, if we are talking about beer, I love to pay, but I reword it by using a different verb trailing a helper: "Will Treat" I'd hate to taint good beer by using the "p" word.
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Verbose Verbatim Okay Jodie on the serious side: Browbeat Pique Procrastinate
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Titillate.....psh, it shouldn't even be a word.
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My sweetheart's aunt used this word the other night at passover dinner and I just loved it: brachiating. She was describing her baby swinging out of his crib. "He was brachiating from bar to bar." Brachiating is to swing from hold-to-hold using your arms, like the monkeys do:)
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Extrapolate, chide, acclimate, personify, CHORTLES
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Ensorcell. For some reason spell check doesn't consider it a word, but it is.
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soothsay and miswed
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quell, entreat, and rapture
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I love you all - finally some vocabulary to help me look smart :D My excuse of not contributing anything out of the ordinary: I'm a foreigner, leave me alone!
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1- to degrump: to make someone who's being grumpy cut it out. 2- to enmystify: making something more mysterious and abstract than it really is, i.e. to justify inaction or prepare someone for exploitation. 3- to propone: to make a task go away by putting it on your todo list long enough that it becomes irrelevant. Eventually, 90% of tasks solve themselves if left to their own devices, and since it's on the list you can claim you're being proactive about it until that date.
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