Tuesday 21 May 2013

Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Torpor

tor-por



noun :: Loss of motion, or of the motion; a state of inactivity with partial or total insensibility; numbness.



noun :: Dullness; sluggishness; inactivity



"She was the only one of his family who could rouse the old man from the torpor in which he seemed to live." -- Cather, Willa

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