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Aug 3, 2011 This week's theme Yours to discover This week's words oenophile interstitial stupefy defalcate somnolence Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg stupefy PRONUNCIATION: (STOO-puh-fy, STYOO-) MEANING: verb tr.: 1. To make someone so bored or tired as unable to think clearly. 2. To amaze. ETYMOLOGY: From French stupéfier (to astound), from Latin stupefacere (to make stupid or senseless), from stupere (to be numb or amazed) + facere (to make). Earliest documented use: before 1600. USAGE: "Craig Kimbrel's stuff has an almost narcotic attraction to it, an irresistible quality that can stupefy." Steve Hummer; Braves Closer Took Unusual Path to Role; The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Georgia); May 21, 2011. Explore "stupefy" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)

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