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I have #ALS. ventilator, feeding tube, eye-gaze computer

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Workaday — a day laborer

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Sophorific — dreaming about a second-year student looking terrific

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Comminute — that brief moment when the pilot gets on the intercom to lie to the passengers that the flight will get there on time

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Heartburn — the feeling you get when your girlfriend/boyfriend ghosts you

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First-class — the initial group of schoolchildren, who met in a cave under Mount Kilimanjaro

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Mail Carrier — a squire, always at the ready to put on his knight’s armor

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Nubile — a refill for your gall bladder

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Current — monthly payments from your most despicable tenant Gru

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Business — high season at Scotland’s Loch Ness

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Earnest — where an earworm lives

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Mystic — how a dog reacts when you try to pull the branch out of its mouth

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Dinner Roles — meal chores for kids, such as setting the table, pouring drinks, washing dishes, and of course, putting dinner rolls on the table

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Machination — a country that has faster-than-the-speed-of-sound aircraft

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Downplay — fellatio or cunnilingus

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Catsoup — feline soup, often adorned with ketchup, which cats love

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Steadfast — a pinch runner in baseball

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Moonstruck — a utility vehicle designed to drive on the regolith of Earth’s largest satellite

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Thence — another name for B.C.E., as opposed to Nowce

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Backspace — a football running back’s 4x40 time

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Junkyard — pubic hair

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