Baker's Dozen II (Part 1)

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Unusual but real verbs

  1. defenestrate - to throw out the window
  2. Xertz - to gulp something down quickly or in a greedy fashion
  3. absquatulate - to make off, decamp, depart or abscond
  4. hydraulic - to mine by using high-pressure streams of water to remove rock material, sediment, or other overburden
  5. Gnathonize - to flatter someone, or to behave sycophantically.
  6. quagswag - to sway to and fro
5245

Unusual but real verbs

  1. defenestrate - to throw out the window
  2. Xertz - to gulp something down quickly or in a greedy fashion
  3. absquatulate - to make off, decamp, depart or abscond
  4. hydraulic - to mine by using high-pressure streams of water to remove rock material, sediment, or other overburden
  5. Gnathonize - to flatter someone, or to behave sycophantically.
  6. quagswag - to sway to and fro
  7. unbosom - to confide, reveal

First used by Shakespeare

5246

Unusual but real verbs

  1. defenestrate - to throw out the window
  2. Xertz - to gulp something down quickly or in a greedy fashion
  3. absquatulate - to make off, decamp, depart or abscond
  4. hydraulic - to mine by using high-pressure streams of water to remove rock material, sediment, or other overburden
  5. gnathonize - to flatter someone, or to behave sycophantically.
  6. quagswag - to sway to and fro
  7. unbosom - to confide, reveal
  8. snudge - to walk while looking down, thinking contemplatively
5247

Unusual but real verbs

  1. defenestrate - to throw out the window
  2. Xertz - to gulp something down quickly or in a greedy fashion
  3. absquatulate - to make off, decamp, depart or abscond
  4. hydraulic - to mine by using high-pressure streams of water to remove rock material, sediment, or other overburden
  5. Gnathonize - to flatter someone, or to behave sycophantically.
  6. quagswag - to sway to and fro
  7. unbosom - to confide, reveal
  8. embiggen - to make great; enlarge, expand. Coined by C.A. Ward 1884; popularized 1996
5248

Unusual but real verbs

  1. defenestrate - to throw out the window
  2. Xertz - to gulp something down quickly or in a greedy fashion
  3. absquatulate - to make off, decamp, depart or abscond
  4. hydraulic - to mine by using high-pressure streams of water to remove rock material, sediment, or other overburden
  5. Gnathonize - to flatter someone, or to behave sycophantically.
  6. quagswag - to sway to and fro
  7. unbosom - to confide, reveal
  8. embiggen - to make great; enlarge, expand. Coined by C.A. Ward 1884; popularized 1996
  9. perpend - to weigh in the mind, to consider carefully
5249

Unusual but real verbs

  1. defenestrate - to throw out the window
  2. Xertz - to gulp something down quickly or in a greedy fashion
  3. absquatulate - to make off, decamp, depart or abscond
  4. hydraulic - to mine by using high-pressure streams of water to remove rock material, sediment, or other overburden
  5. gnathonize - to flatter someone, or to behave sycophantically.
  6. quagswag - to sway to and fro
  7. unbosom - to confide, reveal
  8. snudge - to walk while looking down, thinking contemplatively
  9. embiggen - to make great; enlarge, expand. Coined by C.A. Ward 1884; popularized 1996
  10. perpend - to weigh in the mind, to consider carefully

Housekeeping

5250

Unusual but real verbs

  1. defenestrate - to throw out the window
  2. Xertz - to gulp something down quickly or in a greedy fashion
  3. absquatulate - to make off, decamp, depart or abscond
  4. hydraulic - to mine by using high-pressure streams of water to remove rock material, sediment, or other overburden
  5. gnathonize - to flatter someone, or to behave sycophantically.
  6. quagswag - to sway to and fro
  7. unbosom - to confide, reveal
  8. snudge - to walk while looking down, thinking contemplatively
  9. embiggen - to make great; enlarge, expand. Coined by C.A. Ward 1884; popularized 1996
  10. perpend - to weigh in the mind, to consider carefully
  11. scarper - to run away, to flee
5251

Unusual but real verbs

  1. defenestrate - to throw out the window
  2. Xertz - to gulp something down quickly or in a greedy fashion
  3. absquatulate - to make off, decamp, depart or abscond
  4. hydraulic - to mine by using high-pressure streams of water to remove rock material, sediment, or other overburden
  5. gnathonize - to flatter someone, or to behave sycophantically.
  6. quagswag - to sway to and fro
  7. unbosom - to confide, reveal
  8. snudge - to walk while looking down, thinking contemplatively
  9. embiggen - to make great; enlarge, expand. Coined by C.A. Ward 1884; popularized 1996
  10. perpend - to weigh in the mind, to consider carefully
  11. scarper - to run away, to flee
  12. hie - to move with haste
5252

Unusual but real verbs

  1. defenestrate - to throw out the window
  2. Xertz - to gulp something down quickly or in a greedy fashion
  3. absquatulate - to make off, decamp, depart or abscond
  4. hydraulic - to mine by using high-pressure streams of water to remove rock material, sediment, or other overburden
  5. gnathonize - to flatter someone, or to behave sycophantically.
  6. quagswag - to sway to and fro
  7. unbosom - to confide, reveal
  8. snudge - to walk while looking down, thinking contemplatively
  9. embiggen - to make great; enlarge, expand. Coined by C.A. Ward 1884; popularized 1996
  10. perpend - to weigh in the mind, to consider carefully
  11. scarper - to run away, to flee
  12. hie - to move with haste
  13. impignorate - to pledge something as collateral

Pass.

5253

Unusual but real verbs

  1. defenestrate - to throw out the window
  2. Xertz - to gulp something down quickly or in a greedy fashion
  3. absquatulate - to make off, decamp, depart or abscond
  4. hydraulic - to mine by using high-pressure streams of water to remove rock material, sediment, or other overburden
  5. gnathonize - to flatter someone, or to behave sycophantically.
  6. quagswag - to sway to and fro
  7. unbosom - to confide, reveal
  8. snudge - to walk while looking down, thinking contemplatively
  9. embiggen - to make great; enlarge, expand. Coined by C.A. Ward 1884; popularized 1996
  10. perpend - to weigh in the mind, to consider carefully
  11. scarper - to run away, to flee
  12. hie - to move with haste
  13. impignorate - to pledge something as collateral
  14. exsanguinate - to completely drain of blood (this one was too good to pass up)

Project Gemini Astronauts (must have flown at least one mission)

  1. Ed White (Gemini IV) - first American astronaut to perform an EVA (spacewalk)

-“BB”-

5254

Project Gemini Astronauts (must have flown at least one mission)

  1. Ed White (Gemini IV) - first American astronaut to perform an EVA (spacewalk)
  2. Gus Grissom (Gemini III). Rest In Peace, Gus. And Ed too. You both are walking in space heaven now.
5255

Project Gemini Astronauts (must have flown at least one mission)

  1. Ed White (Gemini IV) - first American astronaut to perform an EVA (spacewalk)
  2. Gus Grissom (Gemini III). Rest In Peace, Gus. And Ed too. You both are walking in space heaven now.
  3. Jim Lovell (Gemini VII and XII) - Still alive at 92.
5256

Project Gemini Astronauts (must have flown at least one mission)

  1. Ed White (Gemini IV) - first American astronaut to perform an EVA (spacewalk)
  2. Gus Grissom (Gemini III). Rest In Peace, Gus. And Ed too. You both are walking in space heaven now.
  3. Jim Lovell (Gemini VII and XII) - Still alive at 92.
  4. Wally Schirra (Gemini VIa) - played Jingle Bells on a smuggled harmonica after reporting to have seen Santa Claus in flight ['twas Christmas Eve].
5257

Project Gemini Astronauts (must have flown at least one mission)

  1. Ed White (Gemini IV) - first American astronaut to perform an EVA (spacewalk)
  2. Gus Grissom (Gemini III). Rest In Peace, Gus. And Ed too. You both are walking in space heaven now.
  3. Jim Lovell (Gemini VII and XII) - Still alive at 92.
  4. Wally Schirra (Gemini VIa) - played Jingle Bells on a smuggled harmonica after reporting to have seen Santa Claus in flight ['twas Christmas Eve].
  5. Neil Armstrong (Gemini VIII) - Too bad that was pretty much the last anyone ever heard of him.
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Project Gemini Astronauts (must have flown at least one mission)

  1. Ed White (Gemini IV) - first American astronaut to perform an EVA (spacewalk)
  2. Gus Grissom (Gemini III). Rest In Peace, Gus. And Ed too. You both are walking in space heaven now.
  3. Jim Lovell (Gemini VII and XII) - Still alive at 92.
  4. Wally Schirra (Gemini VIa) - played Jingle Bells on a smuggled harmonica after reporting to have seen Santa Claus in flight ['twas Christmas Eve].
  5. Neil Armstrong (Gemini VIII) - Too bad that was pretty much the last anyone ever heard of him.
  6. John Young (Gemini III and X) - Also the ninth man to walk on the moon with Apollo 16. Commanded the first and ninth Space Shuttle missions.
5259

Project Gemini Astronauts (must have flown at least one mission)

  1. Ed White (Gemini IV) - first American astronaut to perform an EVA (spacewalk)
  2. Gus Grissom (Gemini III). Rest In Peace, Gus. And Ed too. You both are walking in space heaven now.
  3. Jim Lovell (Gemini VII and XII) - Still alive at 92.
  4. Wally Schirra (Gemini VIa) - played Jingle Bells on a smuggled harmonica after reporting to have seen Santa Claus in flight ['twas Christmas Eve].
  5. Neil Armstrong (Gemini VIII) - Too bad that was pretty much the last anyone ever heard of him.
  6. John Young (Gemini III and X) - Also the ninth man to walk on the moon with Apollo 16. Commanded the first and ninth Space Shuttle missions.
  7. Michael Collins (Gemini X) - he said that the Apollo 11 Mission was “structured for three men, and I consider my third to be as necessary as either of the other two”.
5260

Project Gemini Astronauts (must have flown at least one mission)

  1. Ed White (Gemini IV) - first American astronaut to perform an EVA (spacewalk)
  2. Gus Grissom (Gemini III). Rest In Peace, Gus. And Ed too. You both are walking in space heaven now.
  3. Jim Lovell (Gemini VII and XII) - Still alive at 92.
  4. Wally Schirra (Gemini VIa) - played Jingle Bells on a smuggled harmonica after reporting to have seen Santa Claus in flight ['twas Christmas Eve].
  5. Neil Armstrong (Gemini VIII) - Too bad that was pretty much the last anyone ever heard of him.
  6. John Young (Gemini III and X) - Also the ninth man to walk on the moon with Apollo 16. Commanded the first and ninth Space Shuttle missions.
  7. Michael Collins (Gemini X) - he said that the Apollo 11 Mission was “structured for three men, and I consider my third to be as necessary as either of the other two”.
  8. Buzz Aldrin (Gemini XII) - another living Gemini astronaut, at age 91
5261

Project Gemini Astronauts (must have flown at least one mission)

  1. Ed White (Gemini IV) - first American astronaut to perform an EVA (spacewalk)
  2. Gus Grissom (Gemini III). Rest In Peace, Gus. And Ed too. You both are walking in space heaven now.
  3. Jim Lovell (Gemini VII and XII) - Still alive at 92.
  4. Wally Schirra (Gemini VIa) - played Jingle Bells on a smuggled harmonica after reporting to have seen Santa Claus in flight ['twas Christmas Eve].
  5. Neil Armstrong (Gemini VIII) - Too bad that was pretty much the last anyone ever heard of him.
  6. John Young (Gemini III and X) - Also the ninth man to walk on the moon with Apollo 16. Commanded the first and ninth Space Shuttle missions.
  7. Michael Collins (Gemini X) - he said that the Apollo 11 Mission was “structured for three men, and I consider my third to be as necessary as either of the other two”.
  8. Buzz Aldrin (Gemini XII) - another living Gemini astronaut, at age 91
  9. Frank Borman (Gemini VII) — still kicking at 93 years young.
5262

Project Gemini Astronauts (must have flown at least one mission)

  1. Ed White (Gemini IV) - first American astronaut to perform an EVA (spacewalk)
  2. Gus Grissom (Gemini III). Rest In Peace, Gus. And Ed too. You both are walking in space heaven now.
  3. Jim Lovell (Gemini VII and XII) - Still alive at 92.
  4. Wally Schirra (Gemini VIa) - played Jingle Bells on a smuggled harmonica after reporting to have seen Santa Claus in flight ['twas Christmas Eve].
  5. Neil Armstrong (Gemini VIII) - Too bad that was pretty much the last anyone ever heard of him.
  6. John Young (Gemini III and X) - Also the ninth man to walk on the moon with Apollo 16. Commanded the first and ninth Space Shuttle missions.
  7. Michael Collins (Gemini X) - he said that the Apollo 11 Mission was “structured for three men, and I consider my third to be as necessary as either of the other two”.
  8. Buzz Aldrin (Gemini XII) - another living Gemini astronaut, at age 91
  9. Frank Borman (Gemini VII) — still kicking at 93 years young.
  10. Pete Conrad (Gemini XI) - at 5’6" he didn’t mind confinement in the capsule as much as others.
5263

Project Gemini Astronauts (must have flown at least one mission)

  1. Ed White (Gemini IV) - first American astronaut to perform an EVA (spacewalk)
  2. Gus Grissom (Gemini III). Rest In Peace, Gus. And Ed too. You both are walking in space heaven now.
  3. Jim Lovell (Gemini VII and XII) - Still alive at 92.
  4. Wally Schirra (Gemini VIa) - played Jingle Bells on a smuggled harmonica after reporting to have seen Santa Claus in flight ['twas Christmas Eve].
  5. Neil Armstrong (Gemini VIII) - Too bad that was pretty much the last anyone ever heard of him.
  6. John Young (Gemini III and X) - Also the ninth man to walk on the moon with Apollo 16. Commanded the first and ninth Space Shuttle missions.
  7. Michael Collins (Gemini X) - he said that the Apollo 11 Mission was “structured for three men, and I consider my third to be as necessary as either of the other two”.
  8. Buzz Aldrin (Gemini XII) - another living Gemini astronaut, at age 91
  9. Frank Borman (Gemini VII) — still kicking at 93 years young.
  10. Pete Conrad (Gemini XI) - at 5’6" he didn’t mind confinement in the capsule as much as others.
  11. David Scott (Gemini VIII) - will turn 89 this June. He praised Neil Armstrong’s brilliant handling when Gemini VIII malfunctioned: “he activated the solution, under extreme circumstances … it was my lucky day to be flying with him.”