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pleonexia
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Liza Jane
Today at 03:10 PM
Pleonexia as an affliction seems closely related to Quote: Affluenza, n. 1. The bloated, sluggish and unfulfilled feeling that results from efforts to keep up with the Joneses. 2. An epidemic of stress, overwork, waste and indebtedness caused
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Q&A about words
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Re: What is the noun for to beg?
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zmjezhd
Today at 02:12 PM
prosba
Depending on the context: request, entreaty, demand, desire, appeal, plea, pleading, supplication, or prayer. Czech (and other Slavic languages) prosit is cognate with German fragen 'to ask' and Latin precor 'to entreat, pray for, w
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Re: Abstract term for puck, ball and shuttlecock?
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TheFallibleFiend
Today at 09:50 AM
After consulting m-w about 'accoutrement', it seems that word is about ancillary equipment. However, it suggests there might be an appropriate short phrase we might use to describe what you're saying:
Essential equipment or Essential element mi
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Miscellany
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Miscellany
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Re: Aaak
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Faldage
Today at 06:30 AM
Originally Posted By: Zed"Plat du Jour of the week"
That's pretty funny, but when you mug other languages in dark alleys and rifle through their pockets for the odd word or phrase, I don't believe there's any rules say what you can
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Information and announcements
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Re: For the Love of God
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BranShea
Today at 05:08 AM
We'll see if people will still queu for gadgets.
Hirst's skull, called ``For the Love of God,'' is cast from platinum, encrusted with 8,601 diamonds and has its original teeth, the Rijksmuseum said in a statement on its Web site.
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Words and languages in schools
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Re: Who is Michael Carr?
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TheFallibleFiend
08/27/08 01:41 PM
If the suggested connection to a principal in Northern Virginia is the correct one, it is interesting to note that there may well have been a significant political purpose to the message.
There is a strong push in the state of Virginia and
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Re: The rare monarch may be a genius.
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BranShea
08/27/08 07:50 AM
Interesting , but quite a long and not too easy read.
Structuralist and poststructuralist French philosophy
has put a heavy mark on postmodern and actual visual arts. Making it all so often unnecessarily obscure.
On colors:
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Re: dactylogram
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of troy
08/25/08 10:18 PM
how facinating...
i have a simian crease (on my right hand) --just the one (obviously)... and i've often wondered if that is common (or not) and if finger print fall into patterns (like whirls on right thumb and left (vs one thumb being lo
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Re: The word SOCCER
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BranShea
08/24/08 03:52 PM
Wich is also played in Finland.
Lacrosse
Thanks
It's a real American native game then that travelled.
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Re: Fugacious
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dalehileman
08/23/08 02:28 PM
Fugacity: A community in which the dissociative disorder is prevalent. Nobody is quite sure who they were born, what it is they're supposed to do for a living, or whether they're with the same person whom they married or whose children are living w
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