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#80976 - 09/17/02 05:09 PM 100 Words
AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 6511 Loc: lower upstate New York	... all high school graduates should know, according to our friends at the AHD. How do we measure up? http://makeashorterlink.com/?N2F2213D1
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#80977 - 09/17/02 05:50 PM Re: 100 Words
FishonaBike veteran Registered: 10/11/00 Posts: 1346 Loc: Sussex, England	How do we measure up? Not bad at a quick glance, Auntlette - but I have to question many of the choices of our friends at the AHD. I suppose the authority of any list that is meant to help denote "a superior command of the language" is going to be questionable.
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#80978 - 09/17/02 05:52 PM Re: 100 Words
Wordwind Carpal Tunnel Registered: 09/30/01 Posts: 6296 Loc: Piedmont Region of Virginia, U...	Thanks for the link, AnnaS. Good list--some were surprising because they were not challenging at all (e.g., vortex, soliloquy, hypotenuse)--but a couple of the ones associated with science, for instance, I wouldn't know how to use correctly. Overall, I'd say 95% of them I was very familiar with. About 5% I'd have to fudge on--and probably wouldn't use them correctly (e.g., nanotechnology).
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#80979 - 09/17/02 05:58 PM Re: 100 Words
musick Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/24/00 Posts: 2658 Loc: Chicago	cir·cum·lo·cu·tion = I don't know *about the word, but the concept...
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#80980 - 09/17/02 09:05 PM Re: 100 Words
johnjohn member Registered: 07/05/00 Posts: 167 Loc: Australia	ziggurat - how useful. ( - "Just going off to the ziggurat dear") jj
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#80981 - 09/18/02 04:30 AM Re: 100 Words
johnjohn member Registered: 07/05/00 Posts: 167 Loc: Australia	there's also a certain irony in a USn site explaining or dealing with the meaning of irony, presumably to other USns. (Who was it who first described the US as an "irony free zone"?) jj
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#80982 - 09/18/02 05:49 AM Re: 100 Words
Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13653	Who was it who first described the US as an "irony free zone"? We use irony. We just call it lying.
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#80983 - 09/18/02 06:01 AM Re: 100 Words
johnjohn member Registered: 07/05/00 Posts: 167 Loc: Australia	a hit ,a very palpable hit...
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#80984 - 09/18/02 06:40 AM Re: 100 Words
TheFallibleFiend veteran Registered: 01/23/02 Posts: 1523 Loc: Virginia, USA	I used to think irony was spelled C-A-G-T . But maybe it's u-d-t-b-s-c. k
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#80985 - 09/18/02 09:57 AM Re: 100 Words
wwh Carpal Tunnel Registered: 01/18/01 Posts: 13858	Epiphany is a word I have to look up repeatedly. Sunday school didn't beat it into me. Gerrymander is a word of such limited use, only people from Massachusetts should be expected to know it. Last use I remember is when Barney Franks robbed Margaret Heckler of a large part of her consttituenecy, thirty years or more ago.
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