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  • I learnt a new word today
  • mechmonkey
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    fantod

    n.

    1. fantods
    /a. A state of nervous irritability.
    /b. Nervous movements caused by tension.

    2. An outburst of emotion; a fit.

    :Whilst debating the merits of differing wheel sizes we developed the fantods.

    I like my new word 😀

    Jamie
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    Tomorrow’s word = learned.*

    *Yeah, I know 🙁

    highclimber
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    I learned the adjective, Refulgent the other day. quite why we have so many words to describe things, I don’t know. not quite as nice as it’s synonym, Resplendent but slightly easier to say.

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    Swelper
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    Was watching Zero Dark Thirty last night and this little beauty cropped up

    Tautology

    Tautology may refer to:
    Tautology (rhetoric), using different words to say the same thing, or a series of self-reinforcing statements that cannot be disproved because they depend on the assumption that they are already correct
    Tautology (logic), a technical notion in formal logic, universal unconditioned truth, always valid
    Tautology (rule of inference), a rule of replacement for logical expressions in some systems of propositional logic

    geetee1972
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    STW is full of tautological arguments.

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