This week’s theme
Don’t judge a word by its sound

This week’s words
pulchritude
degustation
bucolic
puissant
crepuscular


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Next week’s theme
Onomatopoeic words

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PRONUNCIATION:

(kri-PUHS-kyuh-luhr)

MEANING:

adjective
1. Relating to or resembling twilight: dim.
2. Active or occurring in twilight, as certain animals.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin crepusculum (twilight), from creper (dusky, obscure). Earliest documented use: 1668.

USAGE:

“The crepuscular sky was dim and there were still nocturnal insects flying about.”
Christopher James Dubey; Assignment Yggdrasil; Andrews; 2013.

See more usage examples of crepuscular in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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