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Aug. 22, 2016
lucubrate\LOO-kyoo-breyt\verb
1. to work, write, or study laboriously, especially at night.
2. to write learnedly.
QuotesI wanted a modern outlook on architecture, a Western outlook, and
I was willing to work all day and lucubrate till dawn to get it.
-- T. C. Boyle, The Women, 2009
Origin of lucubrateLucubrate stems from the Latin lÅ«cubrÄre meaning
"to work by artificial light." The Latin root lÅ«cÄre means "to
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