dyspepsia

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The Word of the Day for December 30 is:

dyspepsia   \dis-PEP-shuh\   noun
     1 : indigestion
    *2 : ill humor : disgruntlement 

Example sentence:
     "As his prestige grew," wrote historian Daniel Boorstin about Sir Isaac 
Newton, "so did his dyspepsia, his unwillingness to give credit to others or 
share credit for his great discoveries."

Did you know?  
     When people get indigestion, they are often affected by nausea, heartburn, 
and gas -- things that can cause the world's greatest gastronome to curse the 
world's most delectable dishes. So, it is no wonder that "dyspepsia," a word 
for indigestion, has also come to mean "ill humor" or "disgruntlement." The 
word itself is ultimately derived from the Greek prefix "dys-" ("faulty" or 
"impaired") and verb "pessein" ("to cook" or "to digest"). To please the 
wordmonger's appetite, we would like to end with this tasty morsel: "Dyspepsia" 
has an opposite, "eupepsia" ? a rarely used word meaning "good digestion" that 
can be found in _Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged_. 

*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.