After the unfortunate incident on the hill, Jack's lady friend joined an Italian monastery, where she became well-known for hosting afternoon samplings of Earl Grey and scones.
mnemonics: Within the field of linguistics, a specialist research area inquiring into the peculiar Greek attachment to starting words with a string of irreconcilable consonants.
trigonometry: in Yorkshire, expressing shock and the sometimes traumatic experience of a ship's arrangement of masts, sails etc. all of a sudden being expressed in the metric instead of the previous imperial system of measurement
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Paternoster
scenic
The reason kids go to the mall in December.
metro
hubbub
soldering
copyright
scriptorium
knowledge
[tangent]
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; intelligence is not putting it in a fruit salad
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intelligence
periphery
What you say when commanding a cartoon-costume fetishist to do a sample of kitty-cat sounds.
Bollywood
diarised
A priest on a Holy Week bender, trying to figure out whether it's Good Friday or Easter Sunday.
casino
brewery
distillery
expat
Exculpatory:
interregnum
proximity
The degree of distance to professional treatment for hemorrhoids.
turbulent
jentacular
crepuscular
crinoline
crinoline: a proprietary medicine to stop you weeping.
episcopal
pistia
A Spanish aunt with a weak bladder.
Rabelais
comeliness
co-melons
suspension
hymnary
fragility
After the unfortunate incident on the hill, Jack's lady friend joined an Italian monastery, where she became well-known for hosting afternoon samplings of Earl Grey and scones.
tissues
dilapidated
When the cell-phone download that you use for ordering sour pickles is no longer state-of-the-art.
Nabokov
rowlock
(pronounced rɒlək)
starter
mnemonics
phthisis
Viva:
The Victorians were so prudish, they even had to bowdlerize Latin words for female anatomy.
El Dorado
substance
cattywampus
gobbledygook
pancakes
Doctor's shorthand for recording that a patient has pain in his insulin-producing organ.
waffles
magnanimity
querulous
trigonometry
traumatologist
An artist who specializes in ink or lead illustrations of female parents.
tabula rasa