Word of the Day

My word of the day comes from a book I recently reviewed called Like Shaking Hands with God by Kurt Vonnegut and Lee Stringer. And no... the word is not "decorated"!!!

The word is: decorticate, v. 

To peel or come off as a skin.

Hence decorticated (ppl. a.; spec.) having had the cortex removed.

As in...

"The lottery-ticket suckers, decorticated by hope and numerology, may as well be victims of Post-Timequake Apathy. You could run them over with an eighteen-wheeler. They wouldn't care."