This week’s theme
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This week’s words
pandiculate
slummock
nictate
oscitate
sloom


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PRONUNCIATION:

(OS-i-tayt)

MEANING:

verb intr.: To yawn or gape.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin oscitare (to yawn), from os (mouth) + citare (to move). Earliest documented use: 1623.

USAGE:

“Disappointed of their normal African harvest, the granaries of Rome oscitated half-empty and forlorn.”
Reginald Hargreaves; Enemy at the Gate; Macdonald & Co.; 1945.

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