Welcome to another weird and wonderful installment of Word Woman's Weekly Work-Out! Keep your mind active for a lifetime by expanding your vocabulary. Now let's stretch out those neural pathways with the Word of the Week:
Morbific: (adjective) disease-producing, see also morbifical -- "The New York Times Everyday Reader's Dictionary of Misunderstood, Misused, Mispronounced Words", Laurence Urdang, ed., The New York Times Book Company, 1972.
Example: Although Cynthia found the CSI TV series endlessly fascinating, she could not come to terms with the morbific nature of the work sufficiently to investigate it as a possible career option.
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