Wednesday, February 17, 2010


Word of the Day for Wednesday, February 17, 2010
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hypnagogic \hip-nuh-GOJ-ik; -GOH-jik\, adjective:
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Of, pertaining to, or occurring in the state of drowsiness preceding sleep.
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So I can just see the B.O. laying around the White House late one night in December 2012, in a hypnagogic state of mind, wondering just what went wrong with his presidency and why the American public so resoundingly voted him out of office!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
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Hypnagogic (sometimes spelled hypnogogic) ultimately derives from Greek hupnos, "sleep" + agogos, "leading," from agein, "to lead."

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