Thursday, December 16, 2010

Vocab Day #5

ersatz |ˈerˌsäts; -ˌzäts; erˈzäts|adjective(of a product) made or used as a substitute, typically an inferior one, forsomething else ersatz coffee.• not real or genuine ersatz emotion.See note at spurious .ORIGIN late 19th cent.: from German, literally ‘replacement.’

Taken from my computer's dictionary application.

5 comments:

  1. Ersatz is a great word...spurious even better!

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  2. I like ersatz...it has a certain ring to it.

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  3. I've heard of this one, but I'd never known exactly what it meant. Thanks!

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  4. Just found your blog! I've always wondered what ersatz meant, having seen it in the Unfortunate Events series, but never bothered to look it up. Thanks! =)

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