coloura'bility

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colourable (ˈkʌlərəbəl) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
adj
1.  capable of being coloured
2.  appearing to be true; plausible: a colourable excuse
3.  pretended; feigned: colourable affection
 
coloura'bility
 
n
 
'colourableness
 
n
 
'colourably
 
adv

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Coloura'bility is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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