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Feb 12, 2010 This week's theme Verbs This week's words castigate disport prevaricate affranchise obnubilate Got a website? Free content for your site Words, quotations & more Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg obnubilate PRONUNCIATION: (ob-NOO-buh-layt, -NYOO-) MEANING: verb tr.: To cloud over, obscure, or darken. ETYMOLOGY: From Latin obnubilare (to darken or obscure), from ob- (in the way) + nubilare (to be cloudy), from nubes (cloud). The word nuance is also a derivative of nubes. USAGE: "In the room which Monsieur [Jacques Parizeau] vacated so suddenly, the 'body odour of race', to quote Montreal poet A.M. Klein, will continue to obnubilate until a window breaks." Peter Reimann; Monsieur's Lapse; The Globe and Mail (Toronto, Canada); Nov 3, 1995. Explore "obnubilate" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. -Thomas Henry Huxley, biologist (1825-1895)

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