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Acumen: Acuteness. Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination.

Bellicose: Aggressive in nature, hostile.

Chicanery: To be deceptive or dishonest. Trickery.

Epiphany: A manifestation or appearance of a divine or superhuman being.

Gerrymander: To divide a geographic area into voting districts in such a way as to give an unfair advantage to one party in an election.

Incontrovertible: Closed to questioning; that which cannot be denied, challenged, or disputed.

Jejune: Lacking matter; empty; void of substance.

Lexicon: The vocabulary used by or known to an individual. (Also called lexical knowledge).

Nomenclature: A system or arrangement of names.

Paradigm: An example serving as a model or pattern.

Quasar: One of over a thousand known extragalactic objects, starlike in appearance and having spectra with characteristically large redshifts, that are thought to be the most distant and most luminous objects in the universe. Also called quasi-stellar object.

Tectonic: Of or relating to construction or to architecture.



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Palindromes (Words and sentences that are the same backwards and forwards):

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...and some sentences:

  • Cigar? Toss it in a can. It is so tragic.
  • Evil did I dwell; lewd I did live.
  • Golf? No sir, prefer prison-flog.
  • Cain: a maniac.
  • Are we not pure? "No sir!" Panama's moody Noriega brags. "It is garbage!" Irony dooms a man; a prisoner up to new era.
  • A Toyota. Race fast, safe car. A Toyota.
  • Live not on evil.
  • No, Mel Gibson is a casino's big lemon.
  • Some men interpret nine memos.
  • Party boobytrap.


Anagram Fun (A word that is created by rearranging the letters of another word.):

  • Dormitory = Dirty Room
  • Schoolmaster = The classroom
  • Elvis = Lives
  • Clint Eastwood = Old West Action
  • The eyes = They see
  • The centenarians = I can hear ten "tens"
  • Slot Machines = Cash Lost in'em
  • Tom Cruise = So I'm Cuter
  • The Hilton = Hint: Hotel