Not to be confused with pullulate. Though I suppose you could ululate over a great pullulation in you fields.

Deter from war?

If these negotiations fail to deter you from attacking us, you will find the result detrimental to your health, and the detritus left of your civilization will take us years to deal with. GRR.

If I remember correctly, I first learned this word in school while reading about glaciers and the rocks they leave behind as they melt.

I also made the mistake of pronouncing it as DETritus, but I know better now.

Interestingly, though the word fawn has certain connotations about color, there is such a thing as a black fawn. Neat looking critter.

Oddly enough, I've never read the book or seen the movie, but I do have the opera. I have the movie The Sting, too. Read all about that one here.

To riff on stargzer's "con-cur" puppy:

con-descend: a rappelling criminal?

For an interesting look into genetic manipulation and its possible implications, read Nancy Kress' trilogy about The Sleepless: Beggars in Spain , Beggars and Choosers , and Beggars Ride . The series also explores a libertarian worldview versus that of a socialist worldview, i. e., what, if anythin...

An excellent word for the AA's growing list of places things live. It even got mentioned in our earlier discussion of rupicoline.

Glad to oblige. Don't be a stranger. Post early, post often.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say the financial term "tranche" must also be related. And, yes, this one I looked up, trench coat did rise up out of the trenches. As the adjective, though, I can't recall ever seeing it in anything other than the phrase "trenchant wit." Ho...

An interesting idea, genobility, but what would people do afterward? It's much like the search for Utopia, you can't get there. If you ever did, you'd die of boredom. To boot, while I expect it will become possible to modify genes for beauty and brains, just where does compassion lie? For an interes...

An excellent word. Now, if someone would care to explain why or how "swell" came to be what we do with pride. Is it perhaps related to a certain swelling in a certain part of the male anatomy, about which many men are quite proud, inordinately or not? Or is it much simpler, as in the idea ...

I must concur on the worthiness of this word for the AA series here. A shame it has been passed over all these years.

Does anyone concur?

Here's a nice map of the flood areas in Pakistan (at the bottom of the article).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-11046139

It has several dam points that are called barrages. I'm glad I read the GWoTD, or I'd have had no clue as to what these things were.

willy-nilly

Is this perhaps originally
will he, nil he

in other words, whether he wants to or not...

See http://www.alphadictionary.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=4349 for a short discussion of this one.