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Word of the Day: Sheer
This word came up in one of my classes this month, and it is more common than you think.
While watching news programs, we hear about the sheer number of refugees trying to enter EU countries.
We can also hear about the sheer cost of university education in the United States, which is preventing many students from attending.
Now that the Olympics are ongoing in Rio, we may hear about how an athlete won a gold medal through sheer determination.
So what does sheer mean?
It’s used as an adjective to emphasize the size, amount or degree of something.
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 67.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.
