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Answering Machine

Answering machine: (n.) a tape recorder or digital device that supplies a recorded message to a telephone call and can record a message from the caller. A “Duophone.” You see, I even remember the...

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Antic

  Antic: (adj) grotesque or bizarre What happens when you use two words to define one word and the two words you apply–which were meant to be synonyms–have absolutely nothing to do with each other?...

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Buzzer

Buzzer: (n) an electrical device used for signaling. Technology makes me giggle. Day by day, we become convinced that the present innovation surpasses any previous revelation. That’s why we have to...

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Contraction

Contraction: (n) a shortened form of a word or group of words I have been considered a writer by entities other than my personal ego. I am grateful for that nod—humbled by the notion that someone...

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Contraption

Contraption: (n) a mechanical contrivance; gadget; device. Getting older changes my opinion on many things. When I was much younger, I viewed myself as a discovery—a unique human being placed on Earth...

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Contrarian

Contrarian: (n) a person who takes an opposing view The contrarians of one generation are the high school teachers of the next. It was a contrarian who stood up in 1847 and said slavery was wrong....

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