One of my joys is word watching. This rare one came on my word-a-day email: rhopalic (from Greek for a tapered club, getting wider like a baseball bat). Here's a rhopalic example they sent.
"I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting; nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality, counterbalancing indecipherability, transcendentalises intercommunications' incomprehensibleness."
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