Quasi
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Word to the Wise: Quasi
“Quasi” (KWAY-zeye) – from the Latin for “as if” – is used as an adjective or prefix meaning “having some resemblance.”
Example (as used by David Kelly in a New York Times review of Audition: A Memoir by Barbara Walters): “This book is so chock-full of news and quasi entertainment that it’s tempting to start quoting some of it, even if out of context.”
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