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Word of the Day: Handcuff
You may already know that when the police arrest you, they handcuff you so that you cannot fight back and either hurt them or yourself.
That is a pretty straightforward usage of the word.
However, there is another way to use the word handcuff.
We can handcuff people with rules or regulations, meaning they cannot do anything or are extremely limited in what they can do.
Imagine you enter into a contract that seems fine at first, but as time passes, you realize that your benefits are decreasing and the other party’s gains are increasing.
You would like to renegotiate the contract, but due to the rules of the agreement, you cannot modify any of the terms until it expires.
This means you have made a bad deal and cannot break or change the contract until the term expires; you have no way out.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least an 8th-grade education (age 13 – 14).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 68.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.
