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Jul 9, 2009
This week's themeWords with three letters in alphabetic sequence This week's words defenestrate limnology panoply somnolent Sturm und Drang Surprise me! Get a random word from A.Word.A.Day archives 
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with Anu Gargsomnolent
PRONUNCIATION:
(SOM-nuh-lent)
MEANING:
adjective:1. Sleepy; drowsy. 2. Sleep-inducing. ETYMOLOGY:
From Latin somnus (sleep). Ultimately from the Indo-European root swep-
(to sleep) that is also the source of insomnia, hypnosis, soporific
(inducing sleep), and somnambulate (to walk in sleep).Somnopathy, a variant of somnipathy, the word for a sleep disorder, has four consecutive letters from the alphabet. USAGE:
"It is encouraging to see such curiosity from the traditionally somnolent panel."The House Eyes the Swamp; The New York Times; Jul 2, 2009. See more usage examples of somnolent in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it. -Hannah More, writer (1745-1833)
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