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The passage used "chrestomathy" to mean a selection of passages from different authors that is compiled as an aid in learning a language.
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of -1.249 places chrestomathy in the very rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 10.2% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
- Known by
- 10.5%
resembling or containing clay
- Known by
- 11.2%
(biology) release of material by splitting open of an organ or tissue; the natural bursting open at maturity of a fruit or other reproductive body to release seeds or spores or the bursting open of a surgically closed wound
- Known by
- 8.8%
splitting a ray into two parallel rays polarized perpendicularly
- Known by
- 11.7%
foraminifers
- Known by
- 11.8%
irritable as if suffering from indigestion
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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