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Aug 3, 2012

This week's theme
Words that have the plural spelled the same but pronounced differently

This week's words
corps
faux pas
rendezvous
pince-nez
precis

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Next week's theme
Reduplicatives

A.Word.A.Day

with Anu Garg

PRONUNCIATION:

(pray-SEE, PRAY-see)

plural precis (pray-SEEZ, PRAY-seez)

MEANING:

noun: A concise summary.
verb tr.: To make a concise summary.

ETYMOLOGY:

From French précis (precise), from Latin praecisus (curtailed), past participle of praecidere (to shorten). Earliest documented use: 1760.

USAGE:

"We'd end [the review] with a pithy precis of our thoughts on the novel."
Alex Preston; Gold by Chris Cleave; The Observer (London, UK); Jun 2, 2012.

See more usage examples of precis in Vocabulary.com's dictionary.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

The man who dies rich dies disgraced. -Andrew Carnegie, industrialist (1835-1919)

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