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Word of the Day: Stopgap
A stopgap is a temporary solution, such as emergency repairs, to a problem until a better and more permanent solution can be found.
When we have a typhoon in Japan, small landslides usually block roads.
These small landslides are immediately removed, and the roads opened, but this is only temporary until the mountain can be reinforced with concrete or the road protected by a retaining wall.
In addition to typhoons, windstorms also cause damage that needs temporary repairs.
Unfortunately, sometimes a windstorm will destroy the roofs of homes.
To prevent rain from coming in, people will put blue tarpaulins over the roof as a stopgap until the professionals can come to repair the roof permanently.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 10th-grade education (age 16).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 49.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.
