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Word of the Day: Sitting duck
If you’re a sitting duck, you are in a very vulnerable or dangerous position.
In other words, you’re an easy target.
If you park your car but do not lock the doors or have a car alarm, your vehicle is a sitting duck waiting for someone to steal it.
The idea of a sitting duck being vulnerable probably comes from the fact that when a duck is sitting on its nest, it cannot move quickly, whereas a duck in the water or flying in the air can move much faster.
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 70.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.