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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--oscitant This week's theme: words to describe people. oscitant (OS-i-tant) adjective 1. Yawning, gaping from drowsiness. 2. Inattentive, dull, negligent. [From Latin oscitant, stem of oscitans, present participle of oscitare (to yawn), from os (mouth) + citare (to move).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg wordsmith.org) "Southey, who has been my corrector, has been strangely oscitant, or, which I believe is sometimes the case, has not understood the sentences." Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Kessinger Publishing; 2005. X-Bonus Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God. -Isaac Bashevis Singer, Writer, Nobel laureate (1904-1991)

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