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Here's the Word of the Day as broadcast by Andi Laine on Monday, August 30th, 2010

Vicarious \vahy-kair-ee-uhs\ adjective

1. performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another.

2. taking the place of another person or thing; acting or serving as a substitute.

3. felt or enjoyed through imagined participation in the experience of others:

Vicarious surfaced in English in 1630s, from Latin vicarius meaning "substitute, deputy", from vicis to "turn, change, exchange, substitution."

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