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Word of the day November 14
The Word of the Day for November 14 is:
torpor • \TOR-per\ • (noun) 1. a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility; 2. apathy, dullness
A little more information about today’s word:
Our English word "torpor" looks the same and means the same thing as Latin "torpor," from which it was borrowed into Middle English. It stems from the Latin verb "torpere," which means "to be sluggish or numb." "Torpor" first appeared around 1230 in an English text, the "Ancren Riwle," a guide for religious recluses, where it referred to a spiritual or intellectual lethargy, but there is very little evidence of its use over next the 400 years. It began showing up again in the early 1600s in reference to both mental and physical sluggishness. The related adjective "torpid" (from the Latin adjective "torpidus") entered the language in the 15th century.
My sentence (using definition #2):
As the play progressed from dull to duller, the audience sank into a state of torpor, their eyes glazed over with boredom.
Based on Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, 10th Edition.
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