{"id":10829,"date":"2007-06-21T06:36:01","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T13:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2007\/06\/21\/100-words.html"},"modified":"2007-06-21T06:36:01","modified_gmt":"2007-06-21T13:36:01","slug":"100_words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/21\/100_words.html","title":{"rendered":"100 Words"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, not that <\/em>100 Words<\/a> … in this case, a list (from dictionary editors) of 100 words all high school graduates should know<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The editors of the American Heritage\u00ae<\/sup> dictionaries have compiled a list of 100 words they recommend every high school graduate should know.<\/p>\n

“The words we suggest,” says senior editor Steven Kleinedler, “are not meant to be exhaustive but are a benchmark against which graduates and their parents can measure themselves. If you are able to use these words correctly, you are likely to have a superior command of the language.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Now, I am known as a somewhat verbose kinda guy, well-read, with a rich vocabulary and no fear of using it.  I am not only a high school grad, but a graduate of one of the finest liberal arts colleges in the nation. People poke (good-hearted) fun of me for the words I use.<\/p>\n

And I tell you that while I recognize<\/em> all of the words on the list, there are quite a number that I would only understand via context, and several I would need to look up even then —<\/p>\n

— which, perhaps, is the Cunning Plan of those dictionary editors<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Not that I have any objection to high school grads knowing and using these words.  But I suspect that there are probably some other words and concepts that I’d be more interested in their knowing (and more certain of their encountering) when they graduate than “jejune” or “moiety” or “quotidian.”  All of which are fine words (and which I now must figure out a way to work into a conversation), but …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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