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"Quash" 28 Apr 2010 | 06:02 pm
In one fell swoop, the instructor managed to quash all the hopes and dreams of her young and impressionable students. Too bad I was one of those students. Official Definition
"Masticate" 7 Mar 2010 | 02:42 am
As he stood gnawing on the turkey leg, sauce dripping from his Mick Jagger lips, the man's masticating teeth were grinding against one another, to the utter horror and chagrin of all within a 100-yard...
"Didactic" 5 Mar 2010 | 02:23 pm
I hope my didactic newspaper column helped reinforce the lesson I taught in rhetoric today. Official Definition
"Temporize" 3 Mar 2010 | 11:38 am
Honestly, though I'm no fan of Valentine's Day, I do think it was kind of rude of the person who kept temporizing when my friend asked him to the dance, only to say at the last minute he didn't want t...
"Arcanum" 25 Feb 2010 | 01:03 pm
Racquelle marvelled at the arcana of the teenage years; she speculated that perhaps, that was the one subject that mere mortals would never be able to understand. Official Definition
"Egregious" 21 Feb 2010 | 10:47 am
As soon as the words escaped her mouth, she realized she had committed an egregious error. Official Definition
"Gastronome" 20 Feb 2010 | 01:32 pm
Racquelle, the world-renowed gastronome, refuses to eat anything from McDonald's. Official Definition
"Duplicity" 19 Feb 2010 | 01:40 pm
Duplicity ruined the friendship of a high schooler and a girl who was an infamous gossip. Turns out the gossip forgot that her latest and juiciest story involved the sister of the other friend. Too ba...
"Hypnagogic" 18 Feb 2010 | 04:03 pm
Sometimes I think I need to invest in some hypnagogic remedies to counter my frequent bouts of insomnia. Official Definition
"Inexorable" 17 Feb 2010 | 06:00 pm
The inexorable professor would make no exceptions to any of the rules in her syllabus. Official Definition
