THIS week’s word is something we probably all needed and hated after the long weekend.
Your alarm clock, the neighbour’s noisy dogs, the car hooting outside your window – anything that wakes you up is an expergefactor.
It is a timeworn word that has fallen out of use in recent years.
A variation on the word is expergefaction, which means waking up.
Learn how to pronounce the word here.
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