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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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