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What is dog.
Noun or verb.
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Comes from the English word “pantaloons”.
Pants.
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What is a piece of paper produced by a hole punch.
A chad.
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What is Bergschrund.
A type of crevasse.
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What is apple.
Noun
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Comes from the Greek word “kata” which means down.
Cat.
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What is sticky or able to form sticky lumps.
Claggy.
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What is Autotomy.
The casting off of a limb or other part of the body by an animal under threat, such as a lizard.
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What is absurd.
Adjective.
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Comes from the Greek word “dēmos-kratia”. “Dēmos” the people and “kratia” power.
Democracy.
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What is a thousand things or a thousand years.
Chiliad.
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What is Argute.
Shrewd.
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What is abstruse.
Adjective.
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Comes from the Greek word “elaion” which means oil.
Olive.
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What is the involuntary repetitive use of obscene language.
Coprolalia
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What is Argle-bargle.
Copious but meaningless talk or writing.
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What is acumen.
Noun.
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Old English hēafod, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch hoofd and German Haupt.
Head.
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What is a minor or incompetent critic.
Criticaster.
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What is aa.
a kind of volcanic lava that forms jagged masses with a light frothy texture; in an unrelated sense ('a stream') aa is the first entry in the Oxford English Dictionary.
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