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    Default Wordish Wednesdays - Wednesday word of the day

    We have FRIDAY night lights for the thrill of it and THURSDAY grumps for the chill of it, TUESDAY new tool day too. Who left out lonely Wednesday with nothing to do?

    I declare a word war, if this is popular we keep it otherwise brickbats.

    First, I need a moderator and victims every Wednesday. Moderators help maintain peace and guides our game.

    THE GAME: Post a complete sentence including some bicycle content and a difficult, obscure or often misused word such as "concomitant". Help raise our collective ability to read the New York Times. Break on thru to the other side.

    Self appointed moderator(s) will comment. The "game" lasts on full day with OZ and NZ getting a 1/2 day hallpass/jumpstart.

    See you next Wednesday and feel free to declare yourself in charge....sukah

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    Kick it - Beastie Boys reference in case you spent the last 20 years in a Swiss boarding school.

    Welcome to Wordish Wednesdays. Todays words are beautiful sounding and elegant when spoken. Choose your own word or use one that has been used today in a complete sentence that includes bicycle content.

    Loquacious
    lo·qua·cious
    lōˈkwāSHəs/
    adjective

    We all laughed hysterically after the worst section of Ballers Ride subsequent to a couple of unfortunate flats where Darren's normally loquacious manner was utterly absent. ha ha.

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    Taming my irritatingly loquacious chain with NFS this morning...
    DT

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    I learned that word from Mad Magazine:

    teacher: "Joshua, use 'loquacious' in a sentence!"
    little boy: "She bumped into me, so I told her to loquacious going!"

    Next.
    GO!

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    Endemic
    Epistemic

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    This whole darn place is epistemic.

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    Diaspora

    My great grandfather fled to Ankara Turkey, an area not conducive to cycling, as a part of the Crimean Tatar diaspora in the late 19th century.

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    Complicitus

    adjective
    having or showing complicity; implicated

    Timely methinks;-)

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    Good one Larry.

    Torrid
    tor·rid
    ˈtôrəd,ˈtärəd/
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    Wednesday evenings World no doubt will include torrid accounts of town line victories.

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    ignoranus-

    he's not just an idiot, he's an a**hole

    my stepfather followed a competition that each year sought to come up with a new word by the changing of a single letter of one already in the dictionary- this one stayed in my memory

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    Apologies if you've already seen this

    IMG_20180101_125545.jpg
    Larry Sampson

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    Quote Originally Posted by ides1056 View Post
    ignoranus-

    he's not just an idiot, he's an a**hole

    my stepfather followed a competition that each year sought to come up with a new word by the changing of a single letter of one already in the dictionary- this one stayed in my memory
    First yr. college a nearby roomate/english major. I used to create fake words used in context to twist his mind. It was before google so....

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    Quote Originally Posted by ides1056 View Post

    ignoranus-

    he's not just an idiot, he's an a**hole
    Hmmm...is this 'appurtenant' to Uranus...

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    Quote Originally Posted by BBB View Post
    Hmmm...is this 'appurtenant' to Uranus...
    Good one.

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    "dendrite" - branched, arborescent extension of a neuron; so named for its tree-like structure. From the Greek δενδρίτης, meaning of or pertaining to a tree.

    The dentrites clearly visible on Abdoujaparov's legs were a not so subtle indication of the source of his cycling prowess.

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    "The U.S. government’s role in the steady destabilization of El Salvador is not only directly pertinent to the question of Abrams’ suitability for his role, it is the subtext to a familiar piece of agitprop. Trump loves to stoke fear about immigrants, including many Salvadorans, who cross the southern border. Not only are the vast majority peaceful, they’re fleeing a violent political climate that we helped create."

    ag·it·prop
    /ˈajətˌpräp/
    noun: agitprop; noun: agit-prop

    "political (originally communist) propaganda, especially in art or literature."

    source: Criminal Shocked When Congresswoman Says His Crimes Out Loud

    i don't know why i'm reading that publication's site, but i'm impressed by their big little word.
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    Furbizia.

    See the bad beer virus thread for details.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BBB View Post
    Furbizia.

    See the bad beer virus thread for details.
    (Gong) Use it in a sentence chief. Kudos for the pick up.

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    Not using furbizia in a sentence was itself an example of the concept...

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    So I amuse myself with Wordle and then like to look at the Wordlebot to see how well I guess.

    Today my first guess was 'fecal' just so the bot response would be '"Solid choice."

    I really need to get out more.

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