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Erudite
Today’s word is Scrutinize.
What it means
- adjective
Learned, scholarly, with emphasis on knowledge gained from books.
“The professor gave an erudite lecture that impressed everyone in the audience.”
- noun
a learned or scholarly person
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Where it comes from
Erudite comes from Latin eruditus, instructed, from e, out of, and rudis, rough or untrained. To educate, in that picture, is to take the roughness out.
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