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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 March 17, 2002: extricate \EK-struh-kayt\, transitive verb: To free or release from a difficulty or entanglement; to get free; to disengage. Sean introduced himself and then extricated his hand from Ronan's persistent grasp in order to show him the photo. --Naeem Murr, [1]The Boy Ultimately they extricated Ned by lifting up the whole table-and-chair structure, thus allowing him to fall out onto the floor. --Joan L. Richards, [2]Angles of Reflection: Logic and a Mother's Love I knelt down, either out of weakness or out of gratitude to a god who had extricated me from yet another predicament. --Christa Wolf, Medea: A Modern Retelling _________________________________________________________ Extricate comes from Latin extricare, "to disentangle, to extricate," from ex-, "out" + tricae, "trifles, impediments, perplexities." References 1. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0395957907/ref%3Dnosim/lexico 2. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0716738317/ref%3Dnosim/lexico _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ 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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