OFFICIOUS

OFFICIOUS

Oh-fish-ish

Pushy; intrusive; meddling;

Giving unwanted help.

Stop giving officious advice because I can choose my own shoes.

The officious woman insisted that I not eat ice cream before dinner. She was always annoying.

Off - icious

Off (Reminds) Off or back off

Icious (Reminds) Vicious

Back off with your advice or I will be vicious.

OFF VICIOUS

You are a veracious and ravenous. You say, "You did not eat the pie."  I believe you. Why?

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A veracious person tells the truth. Veracious means having the habit of being honest.

Oomph

OOMPH

Oomf

Zing; dash; pep;

Having a lot of energy.

The car had oomph and it went from idle to fast quickly.

The car had great oomph. It went very fast.

Oom - ph

Oom (Reminds) Ohm

An ohm is a measurement of energy.

OHM

You go trundling. What do you do with your balls?

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You throw them down the lane. Trundling means to bowl.

OSTENTATIOUS

Os-tent-tay-shis

Loud; flamboyant; garish;

Being very flashy.

Her hat is ostentatious because it is gaudy with big flowers.

Everyone looked at her ostentatious hat. It was very flashy.

Osten - tatious

Osten (Reminds) Ostrich

Tentatious (Reminds) Tenacious

An ostrich is tenacious and has flashy feathers.

OSTRICH TENACIOUS

We play scrabble. You want to quit. I say quitting is an obliquity thing to do. Why do you sit back down and play?

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Obliquity means dishonest or underhanded.

PARABLE

<Pa-ra-bil>

Teaching; tale; legend;

Telling a moral story that teaches a Lesson.

Your story was a parable and I learned from your fable.

The parable taught us to be kind to animals. It was a good story with a good lesson.



Par - a - ble

Par (Reminds) Par or good enough

Ble (Rhymes) Bull or a bull story

Your bull story was on par and it teaches us.

PAR A BULL

Is your commorancy common or is it fancy?

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It depends. A commorancy is the place where you live or sleep.

PARADIGM

PARADIGM

Par-ah-dime

Pattern; standard; model;

Thinking the same thing.

Believing the earth is round is a paradigm because it is a common belief.

The paradigm that the earth was flat went out of favor. Sales of flat earth maps went flat. Pun intended.

Para - digm

Para (Reminds) Parable or story

Digm (Remind of) Dime or decade

A story changes through the decades.

PARABLE DIME

Tonight, I will lock my doors and lucubrate for hours. What am I doing?

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Studying. Lucubrate means to work or study at night.

PARAPHRASE

PARAPHRASE

Pa-ra-fraze

Restate; recap; reword;

Rewording something to clarify it.

Let me paraphrase because I can explain it better.

Let me paraphrase it this way. You won the lottery!

Para - phrase

Para (Reminds) Parable

Phrase (Reminds) Phrase or say

Saying a parable story as a new phrase.

PARABLE PHRASE

You come home and realize your brazier is hot. Why are you happy about it?

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A brazier holds hot coal. Your house is nice and warm. Pronounced: Bray-zure

PEDAGOGY

PEDAGOGY

Ped-ah-go-gee

Schooling; learning; training;

Being the science or art of teaching.

Computers changed the pedagogy because you can study on the Internet.

Ped - a - gog - ee

Ped (Reminds) Pedia

Gog (Reminds) Gog

We learn from a pedia and we are agog.

PEDIATRIC AGOG

Your eyes belie where your ball lies. Do I know where your ball is?

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Yes. Your eyes give away where your ball is. Belie means to reveal a secret.