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Friday words #300

By mike_words | February 18, 2022
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A list of the prefixes "ad", "con", "ex", "in", "pre", and "sub" all pointing to the root "venire"

seeing what came before, with, to, in, between, and out of words like “prevenient”

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Friday words #299

By mike_words | February 11, 2022
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The Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri

hanging a “catenary” curve; gobs about “goblet”

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Friday words #298

By mike_words | January 28, 2022
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Black and white photo of two people dressed as beatniks. The woman wears a horizontally striped shirt and a beret. The man wears a black turtleneck and a beret. He has a goatee and is playing bongo drums.

the loss of comfort in “solastalgia”; how a Celtic tribe became the countercultural “bohemian”

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Friday words #297

By mike_words | January 21, 2022
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The Great Pyramid in Egypt.

a load of “washing”; unburying “mausoleum”

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Friday words #296

By mike_words | January 14, 2022
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A little boy in a cowboy outfit watches what looks like a Western on a black-and-white TV.

special relationships with “parasocial”; “Blimey,” I’ll be danged

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Friday words #295

By mike_words | January 7, 2022
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A painting of a woman in a bright red dress dancing flamenco, mostly turned away from the viewer, with one hand above her head in the style typical of flamenco.

knowing about “perimath”; bravo for “olé”

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Friday words #294

By mike_words | December 31, 2021
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A close-up photo of three bottles of different types of whisky

there’s always room in your “dessert stomach”; exploring with “hooch”

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Friday words #293

By mike_words | December 24, 2021
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A mint julep cocktail in a frosty silver cup.

the masculinity (?) of “bronouns”; a rosy history of “julep”

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Friday words #292

By mike_words | December 17, 2021
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A pair of tweezers on a table

the rarity of “Scorigamis”; a case for “tweezers”

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Friday words #291

By mike_words | December 3, 2021
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A photo apparently showing (as a card trick) a pen that's stuck through a playing card.

the sudden and overwhelming appearance of “flash robs”; the probably non-magical origins of “gimmick”

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