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Word of the Day: Peruse
Today’s word is a nice little one to enhance your vocabulary.
Peruse can have two opposite meanings.
First, it can mean to read something very lightly or to look through something quickly.
When I was a high school student, one of my teachers would assign reading for English literature classes.
Of course, I was a very busy teenager, so I never really read anything seriously.
I just perused it.
The second meaning is the exact opposite of the first meaning.
Peruse can also mean to read something very carefully and diligently.
Whenever one of my Premium package students hands in a writing assignment, I peruse it thoroughly and try to make as many corrections and comments as possible.
If you’re a student, this Word of the Day is a perfect word for you to use.
When a teacher asks if you have completed the assigned readings, you can tell them you perused them.
You see, the teachers don’t know if you just flipped through the texts quickly or if you read them diligently.
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.