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UNIQUE WORDS game to increase our vocabulary - alphabetical order

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Logrolling: 

1) The exchanging of political favors, especially the trading of influence or votes among legislators to achieve passage of projects that are of interest to one another

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Lee C

noddypeak - fool; imbecile

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Moonlight

Ostensible - stated or appearing to be true, but not necessarily so

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Pedantic - is an insulting word used to describe someone who annoys others by correcting small errors, caring too much about minor details, or emphasizing their own expertise especially in some narrow or boring subject matter.

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Moonlight

Quadrille  French ballroom dance for four couples which was very popular at the court of Napoleon I and which found its way into Britain in the early 19th century. The term also refers to the position of corps de ballet dancers within the hierarchy of the Paris Opera (first and second quadrilles, two of the lowest ranks in the company)

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Saygo

Rabelaisian-A vulgar, gross  or crude  type of sense of humour.

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Moonlight

Sanguine - optimistic or positive, especially in an apparently bad or difficult situatio

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Jinyung

Tantamount - equivalent in seriousness to; virtually the same as.

"the resignations were tantamount to an admission of guilt"

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Moonlight

Ubique- Everywhere

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Moonlight

Winnow - blow a current of air through (grain) in order to remove the chaff

                      To winnow is to use air to “separate the wheat from the chaff" — literally or figuratively

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Jess

Xeroderma: a disease in which the skin becomes dry, hard, and scaly

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Moonlight

Zorbing
A sport in which one is inside a large transparent ball (or orb)  and then rolled along the ground.

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Alight - descend from a train, bus, or other form of transport

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