Daily Word: VESTIGE

ves·tige

  [ves-tij]

~ noun

DEFINITION: 1)A mark, trace, or visible evidence of something that is no longer present or in existence. 2)A surviving evidence or remainder of some condition, practice, etc. 3)A very slight trace or amount of something. 4)Biology . A degenerate or imperfectly developed organ or structure that has little or no utility, but that in an earlier stage of the individual or in preceding evolutionary forms of the organism performed a useful function. 5)Archaic. A footprint; track.

SENTENCE: Jim Crow laws were some of the final vestiges that exemplified race-related hate in this country.