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Feb 7, 2008
This week's theme
Words related to sleep

This week's words
somniloquy
diurnation
soporose
hypnopompic
lychnobite

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hypnopompic

(hip-no-POM-pik) Pronunciation Sound Clip

adjective: Pertaining to the semiconscious state before waking.

[From Greek hypnos (sleep) + pompe (sending away).]

"In my customarily prolonged hypnopompic condition on Saturday morning, I became aware that there was a government 'initiative' about passports."
Bryan Appleyard; My Life As a Sock Puppet; New Statesman (London, UK); Feb 26, 2007.

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If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning, etc., beginning from his youth and so go on to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last! -Jonathan Swift, satirist (1667-1745)

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