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Need money for college? Use FastWeb's free scholarship search to find information on more than 600,000 scholarships! It's easy and free. We'll match your background against our database of over 600,000 scholarships! And we'll update you when new scholarships matching your background are added to our database. FastWeb is recommended by more than 3,000 colleges and 14,000 high schools. http://www.fastweb.com/ib/dictionary-1f <A HREF="http://www.fastweb.com/ib/dictionary-1f"< AOL users click here</A< =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Word of the Day for Sunday April 7, 2002: exculpate \EK-skuhl-payt; ek-SKUHL-payt\, transitive verb: To clear from alleged fault or guilt; to prove to be guiltless; to relieve of blame; to acquit. Each member is determined to exculpate himself, to lay the blame elsewhere. --Joseph Wood Krutch, "How Will Posterity Rank O'Neill?" [1]New York Times, October 21, 1956 At the same time, they said, representatives of the inspector general's office at the CIA were generally protective of the intelligence agents involved in the matter, highlighting evidence that seemed to exculpate them. --Tim Golden, "Guerrilla's Asylum Analyzed Amid Contradictory Claims," [2]New York Times, December 12, 1996 _________________________________________________________ Exculpate is ultimately derived from Latin ex-, "without" + culpare, "to blame," from culpa, "blame, fault." Synonyms: clear, discharge, exonerate. [3]Find more at Thesaurus.com. References 1. http://www.nytimes.com/ 2. http://www.nytimes.com/ 3. http://www.thesaurus.com/roget/VI/970.html _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: matt.motley@enron.com To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-WordoftheDay@lists.lexico.com To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-wordoftheday-357530C@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ (C) 2002 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC.
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