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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--hypnopompic This week's theme: words related to sleep. hypnopompic (hip-no-POM-pik) adjective Pertaining to the semiconscious state before waking. [From Greek hypnos (sleep) + pompe (sending away).] -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "In my customarily prolonged hypnopompic condition on Saturday morning, I became aware that there was a government 'initiative' about passports." Bryan Appleyard; My Life As a Sock Puppet; New Statesman (London, UK); Feb 26, 2007. X-Bonus If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning, etc., beginning from his youth and so go on to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last! -Jonathan Swift, satirist (1667-1745)

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