Word of the Day: EXCISE
To edit or expunge
excise (verb) - to remove surgically; to delete or cut out; to impose an excise [ek-sahyz]
BREAKDOWN: EX- (out) + CIS- (to cut)
excise on a noun refers to a government tax or duty on certain commodities produced or sold within a country
excision is the act, process, or result of a complete removal of something, usually tissue
See also: rescind
“Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul’s raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which would deprive the soul of its energy - but forming and informing them as art.” —Allan Bloom
The CIS-/CAED- root family is one of my favorites — it shows up everywhere once you start looking. Incision, precise, concise, scissors, decide (literally "to cut off" the alternatives). The verb and noun "excise" are actually false friends, though — the tax meaning comes through Dutch from a different Latin ancestor (accensare, "to tax"). Same spelling, different roots. English is full of these homographic accidents where unrelated words collide.