One word

Lucubrate

Word of the day on 07 June 2010.

Winning tweet

66
Points
asim7asim
lighted lamp in corner ~ to lucubrate billet-doux ~ moonless night again #haiku #artwiculate

Good uses

  • SJHatzi
    58
    Points
    A too-short tryst, every night by candlelight / the moon and I lucubrate / a lifelong love affair with learning — consummate
  • JonPowles
    56
    Points
    If you want to have cerebral intercourse with me, you'll need to lucubrate first.
  • agezoko
    55
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    Blogger Lucubrate in front of a liquid crystal screen. #artwiculate
  • DarkHaikuMoon
    46
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    Moon king works ~ while you sleep and dream ~ tugging at your heart and soul ~ pervading your private wall ~ lucubrate your consciousness ♛☾
  • TiddK
    46
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    lucubrate, sweet Moon! ~ though the sun has gone to bed ~ reflect her glory . #haiku #artwiculate #ShallowShiny
  • tWordBird
    43
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    RIP Lord Lucubrate - He burned the midnight-oil so heatedly that he finally self-combusted.
  • prashanthm18
    41
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    Thoughts in my mind ignite ~ I lucubrate in twilight ~ all through the night. #artwiculate
  • harrarp
    38
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    Lucubrate is my middle name. Lucky Break is just a nom de plume.
  • ChrisTwitery
    37
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    By candle light illuminate - until you can elaborate - working hard by any light - tedious, I lucubrate
  • Tralala56
    37
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    I have lucubrate-d long hours to excogitate a plan to win Artwiculate, to no avail. #artwiculate
  • urbanascetic
    36
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    Cogitate,lucubrate turn dreams into reality #sixwords #poetry #artwiculate
  • OddlyStarry
    36
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    I used to lucubrate to the extreme. I would sleep with textbooks as pillows to learn by osmosis. I also dreamt often of Cubism.
  • dsceiorg
    35
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    Collective nouns: A plague of self-doubts / A fragility of egos / A lucubrate of pretension #artwiculate
  • LBY3
    34
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    @artwiculate Lucubrate: A word that has no idea how dirty it sounds.
  • TinaNguyen
    34
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    Poetry and Lucubrate actually go way back. They love to pull all-nighters writing beautiful verse. #artwiculate
  • DaveCurry
    34
    Points
    Lucubrate an early 80's Aussie band? Burn the Midnight Oil.
  • marcosarroyos
    32
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    Mando doesn't have to worry about whether he lucubrate-s. Hell, they never turn the lights off in HIS cell!
  • OldJoeStalin
    31
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    The psychiatrist diagnosed Phil with semi-lucubrate d psychosis, because the light is on but no one is studying.
  • nedmw
    31
    Points
    RIP My Lord Lucubrate : Hung at midnight for learning the ropes.
  • kuiperrrr
    30
    Points
    Day and night conjugate/ Unwilling troglodite/ She loves to lucubrate/ Her diary inflate/ Young Frank awaits her fate... #artwiculate
  • RortlyGoblins
    30
    Points
    A nice romantic restaurant in the Adelaide Hills, Chez Lucubrate, for a candlelight repast, while I elaborate my love for you, Tarradiddle
  • BewareTheFly
    30
    Points
    Flies never lucubrate, they're terrified of swotting.
  • mazpow
    29
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    Lucubrate seems so much more romantic now that I don't have any essays due.
  • minibtweet
    28
    Points
    I wrote a book it was a best seller ~ my chance to lucubrate ~ it worked like a dream ;) #artwiculate
  • tama001
    28
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    lucubrate / dig asphalt, fill in asphalt….. / Japanese night road construction . #artwiculate
  • MaxRaunchiness
    28
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    Hello, my lovely, let's go to my place. We can leave the lights on and call it lucubrate.
  • lagadu123
    27
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    Lucubrate to accumulate! Seek and ye shall find! Unless you were born to a silver spoon - in which case, never mind.
  • Ysabeluna
    26
    Points
    moon bids adieu/after a lucubrate /night shift /allowing sunrise/& lovely dawn breaks/ #yogyohka #artwiculate http://twitpic.com/1ut0be
  • osmarjardim
    26
    Points
    I'll make it simple. Max doesn´t. I do. Need to lucubrate to get it?
  • Theonlygolux
    25
    Points
    I lucubrate with books, up late - exams which may decide my fate lay wait in light - while I stay dark and hidden. #revisionsucks
  • AaronLivingston
    25
    Points
    Burning the midnight oil can lucubrate the mind. #artwiculate
  • i_Rafat
    25
    Points
    Newton, Galeleo, Shakespear etc. lucubrate - d in the night, celebrated in the broad daylight
  • DrJillZ
    25
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    @artwiculate BP engineers lucubrate both by and on the midnight oil
  • BurningHawk1969
    24
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    Lucubrate, ejaculate, absqatulate, all the while being articulate. Love em and leave em. #artwiculate
  • amoz1939
    24
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    Exams tomorrow / lucubrate by candle light / Bags under the eyes #haiku #articulate
  • emmaexpress
    24
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    For those who lucubrate out of habit, life is one long light-bulb moment.
  • arkadeep2008
    23
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    She lucubrate-d on the main ideas in her dissertation. #artwiculate
  • hfeaga
    23
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    tiny black scratches on paper / he lucubrates / I see through the window #artwiculate #lucubrate
  • jonahhphoto
    22
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    every time I lucubrate / I'm watching fireflies crossing / wormholes of dreams #haiku #artwiculate
  • ItzQuauhtli
    21
    Points
    AntiPoet Virtue, Lucubrate: Castigate the #Poetic invertebrate, unabatedly irate #Poets should integrate #Artwiculate substrate. #TheTumbler
  • graffitipoet
    21
    Points
    Study by lamplight need not be scholarly, as all naughty students know, a lover makes a great whiteboard lucubrate on
  • Slave_To_Coffee
    20
    Points
    Lucubrate? Oh, I think there will be Max-ish fun to be had with this word.
  • Squawkingalah
    20
    Points
    The free galah will not lucubrate; night is for sleeping. The caged galah, however, stays awake and writes poems.
  • MinDavidWilson
    20
    Points
    The anchovies squished between 2 textbooks was a clear message to the Don. 'Lucubrate studies with the fishes.' #artwiculate

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