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This week's theme Why use a simple word? This week's words dactylogram apograph argillaceous maquillage pleonexia Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg apograph PRONUNCIATION: (AP-uh-graf) MEANING: noun: A copy or a transcript. ETYMOLOGY: From Greek apo- (away, off, apart) + -graph (writing). USAGE: "This fragment first appeared in the Ricci apograph, a manuscript compiled almost entirely by a grandson of Machiavelli, Giuliano de Ricci." Julia L Hairston; Skirting the Issue: Machiavelli's Caterina Sforza; Renaissance Quarterly (New York); Autumn 2000. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill. -Robert A. Heinlein, science-fiction author (1907-1988)

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