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It’s time to announce the winner of Words To Know version 4. I didn’t publicize this one at all and I received  6 entries:

Simonne
Esther
Deb - Mom of 3 Girls
Blog Starr
Deb
Guru

OK, time to put 6 entries into [...]

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Once again it is time for another Words To Know contest. This is version number 4 and the rules are the same as before. Use four of the Words To Know words in a comment below and one person will be chosen randomly to win 20$ via PayPal. This one will end Saturday March 1st.
Here’s [...]

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Well it’s Sunday afternoon and it’s time to announce the winner of my subscriber contest for Week 5. First off, I’d like to thank all of my subscribers and everyone who has participated. Thank-You! I really do appreciate people reading and interacting with my site.
This was the last week of my subscriber contest and [...]

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This is the archive of my 3rd set of Words To Know. This is the Words To Know Contest.
hirsute \HUR-soot; HIR-soot; hur-SOOT; hir-SOOT\, adjective:
Covered with hair; set with bristles; shaggy; hairy.
sesquipedalian \ses-kwuh-puh-DAYL-yuhn\, adjective:
1. Given to or characterized by the use of long words.
2. Long and ponderous; having many syllables.
bete noire \bet-NWAHR\, noun:
Something or someone particularly [...]

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My 3rd, Words To Know, (formerly known as New Word Monday), contest is officially over. I had some really great entries this time. Very impressive, considering the word choices. The most popular word used was bugbear. Used 14 times out of 21 entries. Hirsute, somniferous, and draconian were the 2nd most popular words, each [...]

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Hello everyone, the good news, is that, Words To Know is actually, a little easier than New Word Monday.
Instead of having 5 new words, in which all have to be used in a comment. You get your choice of 10 new words (these words can be found on my Words To Know page). But you [...]

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Some of you may be familiar with my New Word Monday Page. In order to have a more flexible blog schedule, my New Word Monday is now Words To Know. It will still be full of notable words that aren’t commonly used, and I will still have the comment contests. I will just have more [...]

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Well folks once again it is time for another Monday New Word Contest. To enter all you have to do is leave a comment on this post using all 5 Monday New Words in some kind of scenario.
I know the words are hard and they don’t even go together. I figured that out when I [...]

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My last New Word Monday Word. We have all heard the word Cosmopolitan. But do we know what it actually means? Simply put it is being open to other cultures. 
cos·mo·pol·i·tan      /ˌkɒzməˈpɒlɪtn/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[koz-muh-pol-i-tn] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–adjective

1.
free from local, provincial, or national ideas, prejudices, or [...]

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My New Word Monday Contest seemed to be a success. People thought it was creative, and at least I learned how to spell, use and define 5 new words.
I had 4 actual entries:

Sam From Taosbound : The use of capricious portmanteau to obfuscate the details of arbitrage has become ubiquitous on the internet. Or [...]

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