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Today's Word:
Diageotropism (let me break that down for you. di*a*ge*ot*ro*pism)


n
horizontal growth: a response of a plant to gravity in which a part of the plant adopts a horizontal position

[ August 01, 2004, 20:55: Message edited by: Iansidious ]

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recalcitrant

adjective
1. refusing to obey authority, etc.
2. hard to handle

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Today's Word:
Rhebok (ree bok. sounds like the shoe.)

n
antelope of southern Africa: a straight-horned antelope that lives in upland meadows and rocky outcrops in southern Africa. It has brownish-gray woolly hair. Rheboks are related to reedbucks.
Latin name: Pelea capreolus

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">As in nearly every teenager http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif .

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">As in nearly every teenager http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif . </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Watch it... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif

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I will be gone a few days. So I will post today's word then you can have all the fun you want.


Today's Word:
Pipsissewa (pip sissa waw)


n
evergreen plant: an evergreen herb of the wintergreen family that has white or pinkish flowers and jagged astringent leaves that are used medicinally as a diuretic.
Genus: Chimaphila
Also called prince’s pine

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">As in nearly every teenager http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif . </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Watch it... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon8.gif </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">LOL, thought you and Renegade 13 might like that comment http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

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http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif Missed that the first time...I second the "Watch it!" Remember, stereotypes are wrong as often as they are right! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

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Of course. Not all fat people are lazy slobs who sit around all day staring at a video screen. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Of course, I'M not fat. I am simply 20%+ undertall. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Its been a while since we've had a new word so...I guess it's my turn http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Satire

1. a literary work in which vices, follies, etc. are held up to ridicule and contempt.
2. the use of ridicule, sarcasm, etc. to attack vices, follies, etc.