6 letters · 15 points in Scrabble
noun a detailed inspection of your conscience (as done daily by Jesuits)
noun a critical study (as of a writer's work)
originFrom Latin exāmen (“the tongue of a balance, examination”), for exagmen, from exigere (“to weigh accurately, to treat”): compare French examen. See exact.
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