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Word of the Day: Stifling
If you’ve lived or even visited the Kansai region of Japan in summer, you already know what stifling means.
I only have to give you an example. Imagine Osaka in August.
Can you feel the oppressive heat and humidity? It’s very hot and unpleasant, right?
Well, that is what stifling means: hot and unpleasant.
If you are in Tokyo, I imagine the trains are hot and unpleasant when crowded, just like how riding overcrowded trains in India must feel.
Another problem caused by stifling heat is inertia.
When it becomes too hot indoors, the air becomes stale, causing people to suffer from inertia.
No one wants to do anything except perhaps sleep, but it may be too hot to sleep.
Hiding from the heat.
This summer, the weather in Wakayama is stifling, just like the rest of Japan.
My dog, Sora-chan, is having a difficult time with the extreme heat.
She spends most of her time lying on the tatami, not moving at all.
She doesn’t even have enough energy to curl her tail up.
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.
