From the ArcaMax Publishing, Vocabulary Newsletter:
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Today's Word "microcosm"

microcosm \MY-kruh-koz-uhm\ (noun) - 1. A little world. 2 : A smaller, representative system having analogies to a larger system.

"You live in your microcosm and I live in mine, but you'd like to believe that because your microcosm produces a regular check it's more valid than mine." -- Charlotte Vale Allen, 'Dream Train'

Microcosm comes from Greek mikros kosmos, "small world."

This news arrived on: 06/13/2008

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