Today's Word "Vicarious"
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vicarious \vi-KAE-rih-es\ (adjective) - Substitute, surrogate, representative; exercised or endured by someone else, as vicarious powers or punishment; experienced through someone else's experience.
"Michelle was more the sort to travel vicariously through the travelogues of others or enjoy fine cuisine vicariously through the gleams in the eyes of participants on the cooking shows than to actually go out and experience things."
From the Latin vicarius "substitute" from "vicis" the genitive singular of vix "change, replace." "Vix" is also the origin of "vicissitude" and the prefix "vice-," as in "vice-president."
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