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Word of the Day for Wednesday, July 28, 2010behemoth \bih-HEE-muhth\, noun: 1. Any creature or thing of monstrous size or power All the sportive rollickings of all the animals, from the agile fawn to the unwieldly behemoth, are dances taught them by nature. And while that's not the case here, the retail behemoth clearly has the captive attention of mainstream America. Behemoth derives from the Hebrew b'hemoth in the Book of Job, but may be a folk etymology of Egyptian pehemau , "water-ox," the name for the hippopotamus. | |||||||||
 Words of the Day? How about words of timeless wisdom?Introducing our Quotes channel! "Life itself is a quotation." - Jorge Luis Borges | |||||||||
  You're not asleep, but you're not awake either. What's the word for that mysterious feeling?A hypnic jerk is someone you wouldn't want to share a cab with, right? Actually, it is a feeling that many of us experience nightly. In "Inception" the dream travelers move from dream to dream via a "kick," which is like a hypnic jerk. Sleep starts, night starts, or hypnagogic jerks are also names for the feeling... | |||||||||
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