Daily Definition: Crepuscular

Crepuscular: Becoming active at twilight or before sunrise.

Used in a Sentence: It seems that regardless of when I sleep, I am crepuscular.

Daily Definition: Teledu

Teledu: A carnivorous mammal, like the skunk, that is capable of emitting an offensive odor.

Used in a Sentence: No matter what, you DO NOT want to be behind a teledu in a supermarket line.

Daily Definition: Prestidigitation

Prestidigitation: Manual skill and dexterity in the execution of tricks; sleight of hand.

Used in a Sentence: To be a politician you must be a master of prestidigitation.

Daily Definition: Bugaboo

Bugaboo: 2. A steady source of concern.

Used in a Sentence: The Patriot Act has definitely become a bugaboo.

Daily Definition: Analgesia

Analgesia: Inability to feel pain while conscious.

Used in a Sentence: Many times in life I find myself wishing I had analgesia.

Daily Definition: Sinophile

Sinophile: One friendly to the Chinese and their interests.

Used in a Sentence: I do not think you could find a Tibetan sinophile.

Daily Definition: Orchidaceous

Orchidaceous: 2. Suggesting ostentatious luxury; showy.

Used in a Sentence: Just because something is orchidaceous does not mean it is something of value.

Daily Definition: Rhynchocephalian

Rhynchocephalian: Of or pertaining to the rhynchocephalia, an order of mostly extinct lizard-like reptiles.

Used in a Sentence: I am convinced that on of my college professors is rhynchocephalian.

Daily Definition: Loxodromic

Loxodromic: Pertaining to sailing on a rhumb line. Slanting.

Used in a Sentence: It seems to be a natural law that all drunks find themselves loxodromic when they walk.

Daily Definition: Loupgarou

Loupgarou: A werewolf of Germanic origin.

Used in a Sentence: I am convinced that my last girlfriend was a loupgarou.

Daily Definition: Alienor

Alienor: A person who transfers ownership of property to another.

Used in a Sentence: I swear the lady who sold me my house was an alienor at least a realtor.

Daily Definition: Warp and Woof

Warp and Woof: The underlying structure upon which something is built: base.

Used in a Sentence: Many people I know do not have a warp and woof.

Daily Definition: Stridulate

Stridulate: To produce a shrill grating or creaking sound.

Used in a Sentence: Too many people do not seem to speak; they only stridulate.

Daily Definition: Vociferate

Vociferate: To cry out, or utter vehemently especially in protest.

Used in a Sentence: I tend to vociferate more often in the voting booth.

Daily Definition: Putrescence

Putrescence: 1. A character or condition that is becoming putrid. 2. Putrid matter.

Used in a Sentence: Can anyone run for public office without experiencing putrescence?

Daily Definition: Sortilege

Sortilege: The act or practice of foretelling the future by drawing lots.

Used in a Sentence: Sometimes it seems that sortilege is just as accurate as any futurist.

Daily Definition: Turgescence

Turgescence: 1. a The process of swelling. b. The condition of being swollen.

Used in a Sentence: No mater the truth of the situation, if your wife or girlfriend ever ask if you think they are experiencing Turgescence? The answer is always no.

Daily Definition: Somniferous

Somniferous: Inducing sleep.

Used in a Sentence: When giving a talk, the most important thing is not to be somniferous.

Daily Definition: Turbinal

Turbinal: 1. Having the shape of a cone resting on its apex. 2. A turbinate bone.

Used in a Sentence: If a presidential candidate's head is turbinal, does that mean he is a bonehead, or a conehead, or a boneheaded conehead?

Daily Definition: Somnambulate

Somnambulate: To walk while asleep.

Used in a Sentence: Most people in life seem to somnambulate.

Daily Definition: Tuquoque

Tuquoque: A retort accusing an accuser of a similar offense or similar behavior.

Used in a Sentence: My next door neighbor said I was using a tuquoque, but I think that he is the one with the problem.

Daily Definition: Slugabed

Slugabed: One who is inclined to stay in bed out of laziness.

Used in a Sentence: I have noticed that when the weekend arrives I have become a slugabed.

Daily Definition: Flocculate

Flocculate: To form lumps or masses.

Used in a Sentence: When I eat too much, I swear my butt is beginning to flocculate.

Daily Definition: Revanchism

Revanchism: A foreign policy motivated by a desire to regain territory lost earlier to an enemy.

Used in a Sentence: Many bald men find themselves adopting a policy of revanchism.

Daily Definition: Eclaircissement

Eclaircissement: A clarification, enlightenment.

Used in a Sentence: I am always looking for eclaircissement.

Daily Definition: Prosopopeia

Prosopopeia: The impersonation of an absent or imaginary speaker.

Used in a Sentence: I sometimes get the impression that the president is performing prosopopeia.

Daily Definition: Cenogenesis

Cenogenesis: The environmentally determined development of characteristics or structures in an organism.

Used in a Sentence: The cenogenesis of a child's heart is directly proportional to the amount of love it is given.

Daily Definition: Poetaster

Poetaster: An inferior poet.

Used in a Sentence: It would be a disaster to be a poetaster.

Daily Definition: Rheotaxis

Rheotaxis: The movement of an organism in response to the flow of a current.

Used in a Sentence: Sometimes moving against the current is the correct rheotaxis.

Daily Definition: Phillumenist

Phillumenist: One who collects matchbooks or matchboxes.

Used in a Sentence: It would be better for the world if all terrorists suddenly became phillumenists.

Daily Definition: Traducianism

Traducianism: The belief that the soul is inherited from the parents along with the body.

Used in a Sentence: I have enough to blame my parents for without traducianism.

Daily Definition: Melpomene

Melpomene: The Greek muse of tragedy.

Used in a Sentence: Some days I feel like I am living my life under the influence of Melpomene.

Daily Definition: Agrypnia

Agrypnia: Insomnia.

Used in a Sentence: New parents are in an involuntary state of agrypnia.

Daily Definition: Ranson d'etre

Ranson d'etre: Reason or justification for existing.

Used in a Sentence: Most people need a better ranson d'etre than they have now.

Daily Definitions: Superciliary

Superciliary: Of or pertaining to the eyebrow.

Used in a Sentence: What politicians say is causing me to have a permanent raising of the superciliary.

Daily Definitions: Megalocardia

Megalocardia: Enlargement of the heart.

Used in a Sentence: The world would be a better place if more people had megalocardia.

Daily Definition: Bifurcate

Bifurcate: To divide into two parts or branches.

Used in a Sentence: If we do not come to an agreement we will have to bifurcate.

Daily Definitions: Tergiversate

Tergiversate: To use evasions or ambiguities.

Used in a Sentence: When ask their age, all women over 40 will tergiversate.

Daily Definition: Terraqueous

Terraqueous: Composed of both land and water.

Used in a Sentence: Before you throw the terraqueous at someone else, be aware that someone could throw some back.

Daily Definitions: In medias res

In medias res: In or into the middle of a sequence of events, in the middle of things.

Used in a Sentence: Some people, no matter how hard they try, find themselves in medias res.

Daily Definitions: Spinescent

Spinescent: Having a spine.

Used in a Sentence: Many people I have met do not seem to be spinescent.

Daily Definitions: Inconsequential

Inconsequential: Without consequence; lacking importance; petty.

Used in a Sentence: Most of the things in life we worry about are inconsequential.

Daily Definitions: Paronomasia

Paronomasia: Word play, esp. a pun.

Used in a Sentence: I will engage in paronomasia no mater a whatia.

Daily Definitions: Imbibition

Imbibition: The absorption of fluid by a solid or colloid that results in swelling.

Used in a Sentence: Woman to her husband, "Does this imbibition make my butt look bigger?"

Daily Definitions: Compos Mentis

Compos Mentis: Of sound mind; sane.

Used in a Sentence: I am convinced that people who get married before they are 30 years of age are not compos mentis.

Daily Definitions: Iilumine

Iilumine: To give light to.

Used in a Sentence: As enlightened and educated beings we should iilumine the world.