hoghenhine \HAH-gehn-hIn\ (noun) - (English Medieval Law) A legal member of one's own family; a visitor who remains past the third night or the third night of a visit itself in someone else's home.

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wrought \rat\ (adjective) - Worked, crafted, done.

"The antiqued knotty pine shelf was wrought by my freat-grandfather back when 'wrought' was the only participle for 'work.'"

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oscitancy \AH-si-tehn-si\ (noun) - 1 : Yawning or a yawn, hence 2 : the drowsiness or dullness associated with yawning.

"Jack insisted that his oscitancy came more from lack of sleep than from lack of interest."

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hallucinate \heh-LU-seh-neyt\ (verb) - To be deceived by delusions as a result of mental illness or a narcotic; to suffer a wildly distorted dream of something nonexistent but perceived as real.

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ecdemic \ek-DEM-ik\ (adjective) - Of foreign origin; introduced from outside; pertaining to a disease that's observed far from the area it originates in.

"Charles observed that bird flu, while growing from endemic to a ...Read More

Trampoline \TRAEM-peh-leen\ (noun) - A unit of athletic equipment comprising a piece of resilient cloth or netting stretched across a frame and used for acrobatic jumping and tumbling.

"If you go to work for the company...Read More