Wednesday, November 2, 2016

languor, langur

Languor or languor means lack of energy; listlessness or weakness --
He blames his languor on the heat, but I think he's ill.
She feels better, but she still has spells of languor, especially in the evening.

Langur or langur means a leaf monkey, a thin monkey with a long tail, from Asia --
He left some fruit for the langur we saw in the tree over there.
The slightly-built little monkey with a long tail is a langur.

Now that you know that, you can say --
"He started to shake off his languor when he saw a langur playing near the house."

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