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Word of the Day: Swill
Imagine drinking a wonderfully creamy, hot, delicious mug of cocoa.
When you finally get to the bottom of the mug, there’s a bit of chocolate sauce left at the bottom.
You want to drink it, so what do you do?
Well, you swill it around until the sauce is all dissolved in the liquid, then drink it.
The last mouthful is the best because it is the chocolatiest.
Swill means to wash a liquid around something to clean it.
Another example is when you go to the dentist, you usually drink from that little paper cup that they have, right?
Then you swill the water around your mouth and spit it out in the small sink.
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 79.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.