Rules--four "words", but only one of them is an English word--the other three are intended to fool one (or perhaps, the real word is intended to look fake and thus fool one). If you get the correct answer, you post the next four-word challenge. Try to spell the word correctly or one can definitely say "that's not a word!", and resist the temptation to solve the puzzle with Google or it takes the fun and challenge out of it (though checking a solution via Google isn't so bad--which should probably be done on all four words of your next puzzle before posting it, to be (less un)certain).

So to begin:

virimal
phthisic
pteumas
capreed

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Todd (Bowie, MD, US, North America, Earth, Sol System, Vega region, Local Bubble, Orion arm, Milky Way Galaxy, Local Group, Virgo A Cluster, Virgo supercluster, the universe in which spock is clean shaven)

Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.

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phthisic


tricarotenosis
pseudosomiasis
trypanosomiasis
tryptomania


(a ty to the F & G guru for the real one)

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Phthisic is of course correct (Granny: "he has the phthisic", from Beverly Hillbillies). Any takers on Maksutov's puzzle?

Todd

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Todd (Bowie, MD, US, North America, Earth, Sol System, Vega region, Local Bubble, Orion arm, Milky Way Galaxy, Local Group, Virgo A Cluster, Virgo supercluster, the universe in which spock is clean shaven)

Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.

personal page: http://blog.astrosketches.info

I can't I'm the Guru who gave Mak the real word!

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trypanosomiasis

Aposiopetic
Ambiosism
Angiostism
Epiographic

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