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Word of the Day: Knock-on effect
We’ve all experienced the negative results of the knock-on effect, which is when one event is indirectly caused by another.
One day, there could be an accident on the highway that could cause a traffic jam.
Due to this traffic jam, you are late to the office in the morning.
Because you were late getting in, you must make up for lost time by working later than usual.
Since you are working later than usual, your fiancé has to wait in a coffee shop by herself.
If you try to explain that you are late because of the knock-on effect, she may understand, but she will still be angry.
There you have it.
One thing affects another, which in turn affects another, and so on.
It’s like dominoes falling one by one.
There’s no way to predict what will occur and almost no way to stop it from happening.
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 78.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.