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Word of the Day for Wednesday, July 21, 2010occlude \uh-KLOOD\, verb: 1. To shut in, out, or off. Were you afraid that this person would eclipse you, would occlude your very being, that your life would become the baby and nothing else, and that - and this is the most important thing - you wouldn't mind? Unwin closed his dreaming eyes, but he could not occlude the vision of the man thrashing where he sat. Occlude owes its popular usage to the dental term occlusion, "the fitting together of the teeth of the lower jaw with the corresponding teeth of the upper jaw when the jaws are closed." | |||||||||
 Words of the Day? How about words of timeless wisdom?Introducing our Quotes channel! "Life itself is a quotation." - Jorge Luis Borges | |||||||||
  Pot? Why marijuana is called the same thing we cook soup in How did the word for a common kitchen instrument become slang for marijuana? Actually, the origin of pot has nothing to do with the culinary tools. The word came into use in America in the late 1930s. It is a shortening of the Spanish potiguaya or potaguaya that came from potaci�n de guaya,�a wine or brandy... | |||||||||
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