Category: WOTD – Haiku
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Sometimes usage is too specific.
My favorite from last year, “obligate carnivore.” We see in our pets,What makes them predatory,Raptorial acts. “Some lunatics and,Rational human beings,Otherwise normal. “
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It’s good to know that as you get mundane, there’s a special word for it.
One final word for Scrabble points… Domestic poem, Presents a difficult word, Now quotidian.
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I’m sure I used to be somebody.
I’ll spin this as a positive. I cannot be this, Current or past must exist, A quondam person.
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A collection of clever words starting with octothorp.
Lots and lots of points. You can stand in one, A position, not a place, With friends. A quincunx
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What do we call them? I’ll coin a new word coin. Excellent.
We’ve all seen them but never knew they had a name. Aesthetic detail, Not ‘lock a form to a Chase,’Quoin corner the house. “Work is too busy,There’s no chance of catching up,I should retire. “ You can’t see the top,Work all day then you look up,Still can’t see the top.
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This is such an obscure word. The sound of it gives no clues.
It’s all the “U’s” that make this one cool. I know what you did, From a reliable source, The office quidnunc. “What’s the scuttlebutt,You got any good secrets,Asking for a friend. “ What two words,have two “U’s”One is the carrier, The other – the “news”
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I can look at a tiny elephant and know. The elephant-ness.
The next words are great for Scrabble. Shape is a feature, It is known by its essence, Object quiddity.
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If we were all lemmings, would we jump off the cliff after that first sheep?
It’s a game of “who’s your hero?” Copy that fashion, Try to be awesome like them, A puissant trait.
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Origin stories with multiple gods are way more interesting.
I needed someone clever and I knew who to pick. Master of all crafts, He gifted progress to man,Promethean heat.
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If directed at a straw man of a genetic fallacy. Mind-blowing.
The answer before you thought of the question. You might think you can’t, This prolepsis will fix that,You most surely can. “A dead man walking,Thinking he beat the system,All is not as seems. “
Two Old Men 