Why this word is great
LATIBULATE — [Verb] To retreat and lie hidden; to hide in a corner. From Latin latibulārī ("to hide") + -ate, from latibulum ("a hiding-place, lair") + -ārī (verb-forming suffix). Unlike "seclude" (which implies deliberate withdrawal for privacy) or "lurk" (which suggests stealth with menace), "latibulate" is the quiet art of disappearance without agenda. It is the cat curled in the hollow beneath the porch, the child pressed into the closet’s darkest corner, or the way dust settles into the seams of a forgotten book—a small, tender surrender to the comfort of being unseen. Sometimes survival is not confrontation, but the patience of shadows.