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Word of the Day: Eavesdrop
When you secretly listen in on a private conversation, you are eavesdropping.
To eavesdrop, you secretly listen to a conversation that doesn’t involve you. It’s often impolite to eavesdrop, but it’s also very exciting.
Before we go any further, let me say that an eave is the edge of a roof that sticks out over the wall of a building.
I chose today’s picture because it has an eave and a ninja dropping down from it.
I thought it was kind of cute.
Anyway, in my mind, before the ninja attacked, he was lying down with his head out over the eave, secretly listening to whatever was happening below.
In other words, he was eavesdropping before he dropped from the eave.
Of course, under normal circumstances, after eavesdropping, it is not normal for people to drop down and cut somebody’s head off.
Most of us are not ninjas, after all.
However, if you visit the dentist, beautician, doctor’s office, or supermarket and secretly listen in on a conversation other people are having, you are eavesdropping.
Just hope you are not secretly listening to a conversation involving a ninja – they tend to carry swords.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 9th-grade education (age 15).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 60.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.