VICARIOUS (Adj.)

Meaning- experienced or felt by watching, hearing about, or reading about someone else rather than by doing something yourself

Mnemonic trick- vicarious contains word car. Daily, by watching people driving their car, we enjoy driving vicariously. Therefore, vicarious means experience by watching someone else rather than by doing something yourself.

Uses-

•          I vicariously enjoyed my trip to Paris by reading travelling stories and watching images of Paris on google.
•          Child pretends that he is a doctor or he is a teacher. He is enjoying adult life, not directly, but vicariously. When he is older and more mature he will live less vicariously and more actually.
•          While reading the book, we have vicarious joys and sorrows. We vicariously enjoy the lives of the characters of the story.
•          Since his accident he has been unable to take part in the sports that he used to love. Now he reads the sports page and enjoys tennis, golf, and baseball vicariously.