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   vicarious

   /vʌɪˈkɛːrɪəs/

   adjective

   • 1. experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person: "this catalogue brings vicarious pleasure in luxury living"
   • 2. acting or done for another: "a vicarious atonement"

   Word Origin mid 17th century: from Latin vicarius ‘substitute’ (see vicar) + -ous.

   Derivatives

   • 1. vicariousness noun

   Scrabble Points: 14

   • V

     4

   • I

     1

   • C

     3

   • A

     1

   • R

     1

   • I

     1

   • O

     1

   • U

     1

   • S

     1

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