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A.Word.A.Day--morose Pronunciation: WAV or RealAudio morose (mo-ROS) adjective Gloomy, sullen. [From Latin morosus, peevish, equivalent to mor-, mos, will, inclination + -osus, -ose.] "Celebrating, though, is hardly the right word for the morose Vitukhnovskaya, a peculiar mix of teenage anxieties and deconstructionalist ideas." Natalya Shulyakovskaya, Freed Poet Reflects on Time in Jail, The Moscow Times (Russia), May 14, 1998. This week's theme: words from newspapers of the world. X-Bonus Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed. -Natalie Clifford Barney, Author (1876-1972)

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