Round up for November

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Here's a list of our November words:

acerose - needle-shaped, as the leaves of the pine
sententious - given to or using pithy sayings or maxims
jentacular - relating to breakfast.
triskelion - a symbolic figure consisting of three legs, arms, or branches radiating from a common center
verdigris - a green patina or crust of copper sulfate or copper chloride formed on copper, brass, and bronze exposed to air or seawater for long periods of time
idioglossia - a private form of speech invented by one child or by children who are in close contact, as twins
pejorative - disparaging; belittling
hypalage - the reversal of the expected syntactic relation between two words
obsolescence - the state, process, or condition of being or becoming obsolete
nebbish - a pitifully ineffectual, luckless, and timid person
borborygmus - a rumbling noise produced by the movement of gas through the intestines
Markovian - exhibiting the Markov property, in which the conditional probability distribution of future states of the process, given the present state and all past states, depends only upon the present state and not on any past states
syllogism - reasoning from the general to the specific; deduction
bemuse - to make confused : puzzle, bewilder
vitiate - to corrupt
enconium - a formal expression of high praise; eulogy
ubiety - the condition of being located in a particular place
lappet - a flaplike structure, such as the wattle of a bird or the lobe of the ear
footslog - to walk, march, or trudge, especially over a long distance
comestible - usually, comestibles. articles of food; edibles
widdershins - in a contrary or counterclockwise direction
deliquesce - to melt away
raptorial - subsisting by seizing prey; predatory
pneumonic - of, pertaining to, or affecting the lungs; pulmonary
rimose - full of crevices, chinks, or cracks

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Today's word is:

cocker

[kok-er]

–verb (used with object)
to pamper: to cocker a child.

(-noun
1. a cocker spaniel
2. a person who encourages cockfights)