Word of the Day: FACSIMILE
Replica or reproduction
facsimile (noun) - an exact copy or reproduction [fak-sim-uh-lee]
BREAKDOWN: FAC- (make or do) + SIMIL- (like)
a fax is the accepted term for the printed image produced by facsimile transmission or the machine that transmits such images
See also: artifice, beneficiary, edifice, factotum, officious, ramification, simulate, suffice, verisimilitude
“Obsession is so extreme and so hard to imagine with the rational mind that it has a science-fiction-like quality to it—almost as if the obsessed one has been taken over by a replica, a pod, a facsimile of the rational person.” —Susan Cheever
