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Sep 3, 2010
This week's themeTerms from French This week's words agent provocateur decolletage enfant terrible fait accompli faux This week's comments AWADmail 427 Next week's theme Words related to spinning 
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PRONUNCIATION:
(foh)
MEANING:
adjective:
Artificial; fake; false.
ETYMOLOGY:
From French faux (false), from Old French fals, from Latin falsus (false),
past participle of fallere (to deceive).
USAGE:
"During movie production, all faux weapons had to be rubber."Amy Kaufman; T.I. Reworks His Act for Hollywood; Los Angeles Times; Aug 26, 2010. See more usage examples of faux in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong. -John Kenneth Galbraith, economist (1908-2006)
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