Words4Nerds #11

by Peter Saint-Andre

2002-11-02

In honor of All Hallow's Even (or the festival of Samhain if you prefer the holiday's pagan roots), this week all of our words describe various state of darkness:

That's not even to mention words like caliginous (dark and gloomy), fuscous (dusky), fuliginous (sooty), and atramentous (inky black). There sure are a lot of words for darkness in the English language!


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