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... 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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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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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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cir·cum·lo·cu·tion = I don't know *about the word, but the concept...
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ziggurat - how useful. ( - "Just going off to the ziggurat dear") jj
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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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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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a hit ,a very palpable hit...
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I used to think irony was spelled C-A-G-T . But maybe it's u-d-t-b-s-c.
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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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