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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
modicum /ˈmɒdɪkəm/

▶noun a small quantity: a modicum of talent.

– origin C15: from L., neut. of modicus ‘moderate’, from modus ‘measure’.

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