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WOTD  
Word of the Day - for Toastmasters everywhere
Friday 18th August 2023
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vicarious (adjective) vi-KAIR-i-us OR vie-KAIR-i-us



Not experienced personally but imagined through the experience of another person, endured or suffered for somebody else, filling the role or place of another person.

At the moment and at best, work experience is a vicarious activity where students may select an industry or an employer that they have a vague interest in and where they are really testing out whether or not this is the career they wish to pursue.

Mr Price, Australian Hansard, 16 August 2000. Australian Hansard

As to the county, the state law claim was laid to rest on state statutes waiving the county's sovereign immunity and providing for vicarious liability arising out of tortious conduct of its officials.

US Supreme Court, Aldinger v. Howard, 427 U.S. 1 (1976), decided 24 June 1976. US Supreme Court

If only because of that horde of kids underfoot, his golden visions of bourgeois serenity had to be vicarious.

Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 16 April 2001. The New Yorker

The presumably sober viewer, alone at her screen, gets either the satisfaction of sitting in judgment or the pleasure of safe, vicarious participation.

Virginia Heffernan, The New York Times, 10 February 2008. New York Times

I can't think of another author who has a more visceral connection to places he loves and who comes anywhere near James Lee Burke in giving us a vicarious sense of the smells and sights and sounds of places such as the Louisiana swamps and the mountains of Montana.

Matthew Lewin, The Guardian, 26 January 2008, Guardian
reviewing James Lee Burke's Jesus Out To Sea. Amazon




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