testas

noun • [ornithology] the characteristics of a specific type of bird that enables it to be immediately identified by a birder.

As in: “When I first saw the bird’s jizz, I knew it was a swallow.”

The Word Journal editors are very interested in your definiton of this now ubiquitous word. How would you define tumblarity?

noun • ?

noun • a stylistic scheme in which words from the same root are used together, or a word is repeated in a different inflection.

For example, Tennyson’s “Maud XVIII: I have led her Home, my love, my only friend”:

Dear heart, I feel with thee the drowsy spell.
My bride to be, my evermore delight,
My own heart’s heart, my ownest own, farewell

Or more currently: “Who will watch the Watchmen?”.

yet another tetrad of adjectives:

matutinal • of or relating to the morning

meridian • of or relating to midday or noon

nocturnal • of or relating to the night

mesonoxian • of or relating to midnight