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WotD: Repertoire
If you know something about how to tell the origin of English words, you probably have already noticed that repertoire comes from the French language.
A person’s repertoire is all the things that they can do.
For example, if a person is a poet or author, it contains all their written works.
If you are an English language student, it includes all the English vocabulary, idioms, proverbs, etc.
English students spend much of their time absorbing new vocabulary.
It may seem like an endless task, and it probably is.
I’m a native speaker with a master’s degree and 20 years of teaching experience.
I still learn new vocabulary every day.
Learning a language is a lifelong quest for perfection.
A language is a living, breathing thing with a life of its own.
New words are being added, and older words fall out of usage every year.
I hope you can all add the word repertoire to the list of English words that you know and use.
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 71.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.