| Word Overheard: somnambulant |
Frank Rich of The New York Times issues a wake-up call to the US Congress, which he describes as somnambulant (the adjectival form of somnambulate), or "operating heavy machinery while in a drowsy state." Think somnolent + ambulatory.
"It's up to us to wake up our somnambulant Congress to challenge administration policy every day."
Link: The 'Good Germans' Among Us - New York Times
Posted October 15, 2007.
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