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A.Word.A.Day--aristarch Pronunciation: WAV or RealAudio aristarch (AR-uh-stark) noun A severe critic. [After Aristarchus of Samothrace (circa 216-144 BCE), Greek philologist and critic of the Homeric poetry, who rejected many lines of it as spurious.] "Before them march'd that awful Aristarch; Plow'd was his front with many a deep Remark." The Dunciad, Alexander Pope, 1741. X-Bonus More die in the United States of too much food than of too little. -John Kenneth Galbraith, economist (1908- )

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