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Today's Word "requisite"

Required by the nature of things on

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requisite \REK-wuh-zit\ (adjective) - Required by the nature of things or by circumstances; indispensable.

(noun) - That which is required or necessary; something indispensable.

"Those with the requisite talents made drawings and watercolors of the birds, the flowers, the untouched landscapes that unfolded before them." -- Barbara Crossette, 'The Great Hill Stations of Asia'

 

Requisite derives from Latin requisitus, past participle of requirere, "to require."


 

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