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A.Word.A.Day--cogitate What to give to the person who has everything? Give the gift of words. Pronunciation: WAV or RealAudio cogitate (KOJ-i-tayt) verb intr. To take careful thought or think carefully about; ponder. [Latin cogitare, cogitat- : co-, intensive pref + agitare, to consider.] "Interestingly, on a second drawing he had her cogitating on a chaise longue, English guitar in her lap, cat at her feet, with perhaps a view to trees to the left." Rosenthal, Michael, Thomas Gainsborough's Ann Ford, The Art Bulletin, Jan 12 1998. "They've a temper, some of them--particularly verbs, they're the proudest--adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs--however, I can manage the whole lot of them!" boasts Humpty-Dumpty in Lewis Carroll's 1872 classic "Through the Looking Glass." If they are in fact as conceited as Humpty-Dumpty claims them to be, perhaps verbs can be forgiven for their hoity-toity ways -- after all they are the ones that bring a sentence to life. How many of this week's seven words can you manage? -Anu X-Bonus The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness. -Albert Einstein

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