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Word of the Day: Dreary
November is here, and that means we are probably going to experience more than a few dreary days.
Dreary means something is boring and unhappy; it offers no happiness and nothing to which we can look forward.
Those cold, wet, dark days make us feel unhappy, and it is almost (almost, I said) impossible to get out of bed.
On those days, the future looks dreary.
Heck, just opening our eyes is depressing.
That may be true, but Christmas and New Year’s are just around the corner.
Eat all you want, drink all you want, sleep all you want and when you want.
If you look at it that way, life is not so dreary, dull or depressing after all.
After saying all that, you still have to get out of bed in the dark tomorrow morning and go to work.
No, the cards are not stacked against you – it just feels that way.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 6th-grade education (age 11).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 81.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.
