Word of the Day for Wednesday November 23, 2005 crepuscular \krih-PUS-kyuh-luhr\, adjective: 1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling twilight; dim. 2. (Zoology) Appearing or active at twilight. I've been through their checkout and noted its resemblance to Hades - the crepuscular gloom, the dungeon lighting, the mile-long shuffling queue, the glum, sickly faces, the trolleys piled high with flat-pack cardboard units. --John Walsh, "btw," [1]Independent, February 12, 2005 In the crepuscular lobby, a broad circle of monitors laid on their backs on the floor blinked up at a laser show spiraling across a tentlike scrim stretched just below the building's blacked-out skylight. --David Joselit, "Planet Paik - Nam June Paik's works," [2]Art in America, June, 2000 But Monet pursued the blood-red sun rather than the blanched moon, favouring the strangely crepuscular effects created by noxious London smogs during the day. --Richard Cork, "Relay race," [3]New Statesman, February 28, 2005 Most communication systems in luminescent fireflies have been studied in nocturnal species; little is known concerning communication in crepuscular and diurnal species. --Nobuyoshi Ohba, "Flash Communication Systems of Japanese Fireflies," [4]Integrative and Comparative Biology, June 2004 _________________________________________________________ Crepuscular comes from Latin crepusculum, "twilight," from creper, "dark, obscure." References 1. http://www.independent.co.uk/ 2. http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/ 3. http://www.newstatesman.com/ 4. http://www.sicb.org/az/index.php3 Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=9&q=crepuscular