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So we have a work boy. An 18-year-old co-op student who works on my floor. This is an intelligent kid from a great school system. But we discovered that he somehow got through 12 years of school without having a vocabulary. The words he does not know amaze me. So the work people kind of started a "Word a Day" program with him.
Today he learned "exacerbate", "fortitude" and "constitution." We have also taught him (and keep in mind, he had NO clue what any of these meant and had never heard of most of them): floozy, brothel, escapade, lewd, tart, voluptuous, raze, masticate, latter, demographic, drab, coy, precocious, enumerate, trollop, insatiate, bona fide, and slovenly.
Today's exchange (names changed to protect the innocent):
"Hey Toby!"
"What?"
"Do you know what decadent means?"
"Is that a unit of measure? No...wait, it's a steroid, right?"
I just...I just don't understand!! Coy?? Drab? Brothel? How???
Today he learned "exacerbate", "fortitude" and "constitution." We have also taught him (and keep in mind, he had NO clue what any of these meant and had never heard of most of them): floozy, brothel, escapade, lewd, tart, voluptuous, raze, masticate, latter, demographic, drab, coy, precocious, enumerate, trollop, insatiate, bona fide, and slovenly.
Today's exchange (names changed to protect the innocent):
"Hey Toby!"
"What?"
"Do you know what decadent means?"
"Is that a unit of measure? No...wait, it's a steroid, right?"
I just...I just don't understand!! Coy?? Drab? Brothel? How???