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The Word of the Day for June 4 is:

incisive   \in-SYE-sive\   adjective 
     : impressively direct and decisive (as in manner or presentation)

Example sentence:
     After reading the first draft of my story, she offered several incisive 
comments, all of which proved extremely helpful to me.

Did you know?
     "Incisive" has been used in English since around 1834 and derives from the 
Latin verb "caedere," meaning "to cut." Its linguistic kin include many 
cuttings from the fruitful stem "caedere," such as "scissors," "chisel," 
"incise" ("to cut into or engrave"), "excise" ("to remove by cutting"), 
"incisor" ("a front tooth typically adapted for cutting"), "incision" ("cut" or 
"gash"), "precise" ("minutely exact"), and "concise" ("brief").