Friday, June 27, 2008

Vocabulary :: Word of the Day : Lucubrate
lu-cu-brate

verb :: Write in scholarly fashion.

"The professor lucubrates upon his research in several scientific journals."


Question is did you misread it like I did and think it was a different word all together?

3 comments:

Leslie said...

Lugubrious?
Lubricate?

Seriously said...

oooo, going to have to look up the first one.

Seriously said...

Excellent word-
Lugubrious
–adjective
mournful, dismal, or gloomy, esp. in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner: lugubrious songs of lost love.