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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--scrutator This week's theme: words to describe people. scrutator (skroo-TAY-tuhr) noun One who investigates. [From Latin scrutator (searcher), from scrutari (to examine), from scruta (trash).] -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "Something like 'heaven forgive me' was in Clara's mind, though she would have declared herself innocent before the scrutator." George Meredith; The Egoist; Kessinger Publishing; 2004. X-Bonus Let your tears come. Let them water your soul. -Eileen Mayhew

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