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Skunked Words

Word Matters

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Is Enervate a Spoken Word?

i think the greater crime here is that this information leaked, rather than what was actually carried in the information itself. i'm willing to bet that 75 to 80 % of high school students at some point will come across andervate repeatedly because it's a perfect test word. So i think we should, in some sense, pay attention to words that have this secondary life outside of written words. Do you know a word that i feel is skunked for me, personally, is the word ambivolent. I am embivolent about whether i should spend time on the entry for enervate, or i should continue my revision of these other terms i'm working on.

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