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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--conspectus This week's theme: words about books. conspectus (kuhn-SPEK-tuhs) noun A general survey, synopsis, outline, or digest of something. [From Latin conspectus, past participle of conspicere, from con- (complete) + spicere (to look). Ultimately from Indo-European root spek- (to observe) which is also the ancestor of such words as suspect, spectrum, bishop (literally, overseer), espionage, despise, telescope, spectator, and spectacles.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg AT wordsmith.org) "Meanwhile, for a well-informed, critical, independent-minded but essentially traditional view of the subject, we have a new conspectus [Europe's Reformations] by James D. Tracy. He is masterly in absorbing information and masterful in organizing it -- skeptical of fashion, clear in exposition, fluent in communication, unremittingly scholarly." Felipe Fernandez-Armesto; Real Zeal; New York Times Book Review, Jun 11, 2000. X-Bonus When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. -Maxim Gorky, author (1868-1936)

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