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Word of the Day for Thursday, March 10, 2011ersatz \AIR-sahts; UR-sats\, adjective: Being a substitute or imitation, usually an inferior one. Meanwhile, a poor copy was erected in the courtyard; many an unsuspecting traveler paid homage to that ersatz masterpiece. All we can create in that way is an ersatz culture, the synthetic product of those factories we call variously universities, colleges or museums. Then there was the sheaf of hostile letters larded with ersatz sympathy, strained sarcasm or pure spite. Ersatz derives from German Ersatz, "a substitute." | |||||||||
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