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Word of the Day: Plethora
Say the word quietly to yourself.
Plethora.
Isn’t it a lovely word?
Why would you say something dull, such as ‘I have many choices’ when you can say ‘I have a plethora of options’?
That’s what plethora means: a large amount of something, perhaps even more than you need.
I believe that life is never dull, and I never have time to be bored because I have an endless variety of activities to choose from every day.
Let’s consider libraries for a moment.
Public libraries are ubiquitous in Westernized nations worldwide.
All you need to do is get a library card, and the world opens up to you.
Perhaps that is a little too much trouble for you, or the weather conditions make it inconvenient to visit a library when the mood takes you.
In that case, there are a plethora of free books online from which you can choose.
It’s impossible not to find something interesting once you start looking.
That’s the beautiful thing about life: the plethora of choices we have.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 7th-grade education (age 12).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 74.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.