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WotD: Persona non grata
If someone is persona non grata, they are not welcome.
Although it’s Latin, English speakers still use it today.
The most recent example that I can think of is the 2016 presidential election hacking trouble between the United States and Russia.
Just before the 2017 New Year’s holidays, the United States declared 35 Russian diplomats persona non grata and ordered them to leave the country.
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 59.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.