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   excerpt

   noun

   • 1. a short extract from a film, broadcast, or piece of music or writing: "she read out excerpts from an article in the Times"

   verb

   • 1. take (a short extract) from a text: "the notes are excerpted from his forthcoming biography"
   • ▪ take an excerpt or excerpts from (a text): "a book excerpted in this week's"

   Word Origin mid 16th century (as a verb): from Latin excerpt- ‘plucked out’, from the verb excerpere, from ex- ‘out of’ + carpere ‘to pluck’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. excerptible adjective
   • 2. excerption noun

   Scrabble Points: 18

   • E

     1

   • X

     8

   • C

     3

   • E

     1

   • R

     1

   • P

     3

   • T

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