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 | Apr 8, 2016This week’s theme Blend words This week’s words lunkhead clairaudience affluential bankster sheeple This week’s comments AWADmail 719 Next week’s theme Coined words             A.Word.A.Daywith Anu Garg sheeple
 PRONUNCIATION: MEANING: 
noun: People who unquestioningly accept what’s said by a political leader, marketer, etc.
 ETYMOLOGY: 
A blend of sheep + people. Earliest documented use: 1945.
 USAGE: 
“The general public -- the mass of sheeple -- want to cling to two core beliefs.” Pinchas Landau; Who’s in Charge?; Jerusalem Post (Israel); Nov 14, 2014. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:Life is short, short, brother! / Ain't it the truth? / And there is no
other / Ain't it the truth? / You gotta rock that rainbow while you still
got your youth! -Yip Harburg, lyricist (8 Apr 1896-1981) | 
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