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#3718 | | Antonym, n.: The opposite of the word you're trying to think of.
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#3719 | | Aphasia: Loss of speech in social scientists when asked at parties, "But of what use is your research?"
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#3720 | | aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement. afterism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don't think of until too late. -- James Alexander Thom
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#3721 | | Appendix: A portion of a book, for which nobody yet has discovered any use.
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#3722 | | Applause, n: The echo of a platitude from the mouth of a fool. -- Ambrose Bierce
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#3723 | | aquadextrous, adj.: Possessing the ability to turn the bathtub faucet on and off with your toes. -- Rich Hall, "Sniglets"
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#3724 | | Arbitrary systems, pl.n.: Systems about which nothing general can be said, save "nothing general can be said."
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#3725 | | Arithmetic: An obscure art no longer practiced in the world's developed countries.
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#3726 | | Armadillo: To provide weapons to a Spanish pickle.
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#3727 | | Armor's Axiom: Virtue is the failure to achieve vice.
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