Cumulative Reader's Digest “Word Power” posts:
(in reverse order of posting)
| 7. | Science Words |
| 6. | Jon Stewart / The Daily Show |
| 5. | Summer (“dog” and “can” words) |
| 4. | Culinary Words |
| 3. | Financial Parlance |
| 2. | Scholastic Aptitude Test |
| 1. | George Washington Inaugural Address |
It was hot enough today to need the air conditioner for the first time this year. It was hitting 27C (80F) outside, and was all the hotter in my office due to the computers acting like space heaters.
It's a tenuous link to summertime, but here's a Reader's Digest “Word Power” from August 2003, featuring random words that begin with “can” or “dog”. Their rationale for this particular slice of randomness (and my tenuous link to summer) is that August is known as the “dog days of summer” because that's when the star Canis Major rises with the sun. Whatever.
Anyway, as always, I missed the “exceptional” level by a wide margin.
How will you do?
Choose which of the four possible selections best represents the meaning of the word