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Laker
Stan Rogers song, "Your Laker's Back in Town"
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Limbeck
"...the receipt of reason/ A limbeck only" Lady Macbeth
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Tick
A John Denver song says "it took a whole bolt of cloth for the tick"
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Rem Acu Tetigisti
A 1963 episode of The Avengers, said in response to: "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"
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Cinquefoil
Louise Gluck's poem All Hallows: "piled at the roadside/among cinquefoil"
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Eventide
It is the name of group of therapists in Ithaca, NY
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Senescence
From "Prince Lestat" latest book in The Vampire Chronicles.
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Zeugma
Steven Pinker's book, The Sense of Style.
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Nosh
The synagogue invited me to a get-together to nosh.
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Orrery
A Terry Pratchett book called the Science of Discworld
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Slumgullion
I've been making this for years, and now I know how to pronounce it properly!
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Extirpate
"Mountain lions were extirpated from New Jersey in the 1800s." (NJ Herald)
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Literally
In "The Newsroom," Leona mentions the definition during a boardroom scene.
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Fiat
I was reading about President Obama issuing a "fiat" on "illegal immigrants."
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Contingency
On a high school football playoff schedule, one game was listed as a contingency.
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