Peter Sokolowski
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first heard Jul 2026
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Torpor most commonly refers to a state of mind and body characterized by inactivity and lack of energy, as on a torid, no relation, summer day, when one has little desire to do much more than lie around daydreaming.
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While people may be able to shake off torpor that sets in when the heat takes away the will to get things done, it's a bit harder for animals, for whom the word has a more technical meaning.
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An animal in torpor is in a state of lowered body temperature and metabolic activity, usually because of extreme heat or cold.
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The torpor can last a few hours or it can be months before the creature wipes the sleep out of its eyes.
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Torpid, the related adjective, both torpid and torpor, come from the Latin verb torpere, meaning to be sluggish or numb, has both technical and non technical applications, as in torpid animals or a torpid economy.
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With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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Colloquial is an adjective.
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It's used with words like term and word and expression to describe language that is used in familiar and informal conversation.
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Here's the word used in a sentence from the Green Bay Press Gazette.
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The American woodcock is a native North American bird species found in Wisconsin and much of the eastern United States and Canada.
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Known by a host of colloquial names, including timberdoodle, bogsucker, and mud snipe, the species is about the size of the American robin.
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The noun colloqui has since the fifteenth century referred to a conversation or dialogue, and when the adjective colloquial was formed in the mid-eighteenth century, it had a similar focus.
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Both words trace back to the Latin verb colloqui meaning to converse.
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Over time, however, colloquial developed a more specific meaning related to language that is most suited to informal conversation, and it ultimately garnered a secondary use for language that is so informal as to be inappropriate for a given situation.
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For instance, when writing an academic paper about Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton, it would not serve to say that the crew of the Endurance was in quite a pickle when they became trapped in ice off the Caired coast.
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Although the word pickle does indeed mean a difficult situation in this context, its flavor may be considered too colloquial, that is unacceptably formal for academic use.
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With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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It's the Word of the Day podcast for August 4th.
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