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Apr 3, 2026
This week’s themeAll vocabulary, no cardio This week’s words slummock nictate oscitate sloom
A Girl Asleep (detail), 1657
Art: Johannes Vermeer Wordsmith Games
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with Anu Gargsloom
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ETYMOLOGY:
From Old English sluma (slumber). Earliest documented use: before 1150.
USAGE:
“He lay slooming half-asleep, half-awake, thinking about Tue afternoon.” Gemma O’Connor; Walking on Water; Bantam; 2001. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds --
all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have. -Edward
Everett Hale, author (3 Apr 1822-1909)
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