A.Word.A.Day--faux

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Sep 3, 2010

This week's theme
Terms from French

This week's words
agent provocateur
decolletage
enfant terrible
fait accompli
faux

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A.Word.A.Day

with Anu Garg

faux

PRONUNCIATION:

(foh)

MEANING:

noun: Artificial; fake; false.

ETYMOLOGY:

From French faux (false), from Old French fals, from Latin falsus (false), past participle of fallere (to deceive).

USAGE:

"During movie production, all faux weapons had to be rubber."
Amy Kaufman; T.I. Reworks His Act for Hollywood; Los Angeles Times; Aug 26, 2010.

Explore "faux" in the Visual Thesaurus.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong. -John Kenneth Galbraith, economist (1908-2006)

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