Exsanguinate

to drain of blood (And no this isn't from a vampire book or story. What writer of vampire lore would actually use this word? That would be an interesting book, I think)

Word Today

interstices

(used in The Good Book, by Peter Gomes)

Defined

Pettifog
as used here: to quibble over insignificant details

Word I Learned Today

I read a couple of magazines whose writers like to use big, unusual words. I've never been a real vocabulary junky, so there always seems to be a word I don't know. I'm going to try to start tracking these here.

Today's word is: obeisance.

(Lest you think I'm particularly pretentious about my reading habits, rest assured that these magazines are rarely touched until I've finished my Entertainment Weekly and hand-me-down People issues.)