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When language is magic
Know your Duchess from your Baroness
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The awkward case of 'his or her'
embolization 'the process by which a blood vessel or organ is obstructed by a material mass'
oleaginous 'marked by an offensively ingratiating manner or quality'
pansexual 'sexual desire or attraction...not limited to a particular gender identity or sexual orientation'
symbiote 'an organism living in symbiosis'
charlatan 'faker or fraud'
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good-natured ridicule
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A game of winding words.
The story of an imaginary word that managed to sneak past our editors and enter the dictionary.
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