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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--jentacular This week's theme: words related to food. jentacular (jen-TAK-yuh-luhr) adjective Relating to breakfast. [From Latin jentare (to breakfast).] -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "The Gentleman loved to hold that crackling rectangle in front of his face (folded, of course, into courteous fourths), loved the slant of the jentacular sun, the slightly acrid odor of the newsprint, the snappy headlines." Michael Griffith; Bibliophilia: A Novella and Stories; Arcade Publishing; 2003. X-Bonus That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. -Amos Bronson Alcott, teacher and author (1799-1888)

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