Grandiloquent Word of the Day
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- Quibble [KWIB-uhl] (n.) - A play on words, a pun. - An equivocation, evasion, or frivolous objection. Used in a sentence: “Q’s for the quibble the vicar had said, Just moments before the Lord struck him dead.”
- Noctilucous [nok-tih-LOO-kus] (adj.) - Shining in the night. Used in a sentence: “The power outage already had me on the edge of my nerves, then those large, noctilucous eyes sent me tumbling headlong into madness.” Also: Noctilucent.
- Februate [FEB-roo-ayt] (v.) - To purify, cleanse, or rejuvenate, esp. in a ritual or ceremonial context. Used in a sentence: “He simmered orange peel, cloves, and cedar needles on the stove to februate the home with a sweetness that felt almost like magic.”
- Slugabed [SLUG-uh-bed] (n.) - One who lingers in bed through laziness, a sluggard. Used in a sentence: “Up at last rose the slugabed, with hair all afflunters and the unsteady indignity of a corpse newly exhumed, grumbling that only villains wake before noon.”
- Lugubrious [loo-GOO-bree-us] (adj.) - Theatrically mournful; characterized by excessive sadness; doleful; dismal.
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