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Bored so posting a word of the day until I get even more bored.... :) :(

 

[spoiler=June 4, 2016]

hy·poc·ri·sy

noun

the practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform; pretense.

 

 

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[spoiler=Words]Revel (rev - uh - l)

verb (used without object), reveled, reveling or (especiallyBritish) revelled, revelling.

1. to take great pleasure or delight (usually followed by in): to revel in luxury.

2. to make merry; indulge in boisterous festivities.

 

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[spoiler=June 6, 2016]

miscegenation (mi-sej-uh-NAY-shuhn, mis-i-juh-) noun

 

1. A mixture of different races.

 

2. Cohabitation, sexual relations, or marriage involving persons of different races.

 

[Latin miscere, to mix + genus, race + -ation.]

 

 

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[spoiler=June 7, 2016]

rasorial (ruh-SOR-ee-uhl) adjective

 

Given to scratching the ground to look for food.

 

[From Latin radere (to scrape), ultimately from the Indo-European root red- (to scrape or scratch) that's also the source of raze, razor, erase, corrode, rascal, rat, and rodent.]

 

 

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[spoiler=June 8, 2016]

syllogistic (sil-uh-JIS-tik)

 

adjective:

1. Of or relating to syllogism (a form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion).

2. Subtle or specious.

 

noun:

1. Deductive reasoning.

2. A subtle or specious piece of reasoning.

 

[Via Middle English, French, and Latin from Greek syllogizesthai (to syllogize). Ultimately from the Indo-European root leg- (to collect, speak) that is also the source of other words such as lexicon, lesson, lecture, legible, legal, and select.]

 

 

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[spoiler=June 9, 2016]

petulant

 

 

PRONUNCIATION:

(PECH-uh-lent) awordsmith.org_words_images_sound_icon.png.d23017bce77ff0dbe754677c3be55639.png

 

MEANING:

adjective: Bad-tempered; cranky.

 

ETYMOLOGY:

[From Latin petere (to seek, assail). Ultimately from the Indo-European root pet- (to rush or fly), which also gave us feather, petition, compete, perpetual, propitious, pteridology, pinnate, and lepidopterology. Earliest documented use: 1598.

 

 

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