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I remember one day in the 1990s my middle school principal mentioned in a faculty meeting about the reciprocity of Florida allowing one of our Georgia teachers to be able to teach there without having to jump through their state requirements to do so.
I had never used that word before. I knew it must have the root word reciprocal so why not just say reciprocal agreement? Show-off.
Let’s look at that word. Here are some synonyms: cooperation, exchange, mutuality, reciprocality, reciprocation, partnership, relationship. I bet there are some synonyms in that group you would use on a daily basis and then there are some that are a little overbearing, uppity, high and mighty, cavalier, or audacious.
What is a word for someone with a large vocabulary? It’s sesquipedalian. In reality, even the word sesquipedalian is in fact sesquipedalian. It can also be used to describe someone or something that overuses big words, like a philosophy professor or a chemistry textbook. Do you know any one like that?
Does knowing big words make you smart? Intelligent people tend to be more well-read. It's important to note that a large vocabulary is more than just knowing a few big words. ... The more you improve your vocabulary, the more your intelligence will increase.
Have you heard of the Bell Curve? This graph shows the spread of values of anything affected by the cumulative effects of randomness. Founded in the 19th century, there’s no shortage of those: from stock market jitters to human heights and IQ. Many phenomena follow at least a rough approximation of the Bell Curve, with the most common value in the center, and rarer, more extreme values to either side. An intelligence quotient (IQ) is a total score derived from a set of standardized tests or subtests designed to assess human intelligence.
The curve peaks at the top with a score of an average 100. Sixty-eight percent of us fall in between the scores of 85 and 115. Ninety-six percent of us fall in between 70 and 130. You can see the pattern. The bottom of the bell graph has the fewest percentages of either IQ extreme. Special education classes in school for both slower and gifted students are designed for both ends of the graph curve.
The book, The Bell Curve, published 1994, states "Inequality of endowments, including intelligence, is a reality. Trying to pretend that inequality does not really exist has led to disaster. Trying to eradicate inequality with artificially manufactured outcomes has led to disaster. It is time for America once again to try living with inequality, as life is lived: understanding that each human being has strengths and weaknesses, qualities we admire and qualities we do not admire, competencies and incompetencies, assets and debits; that the success of each human life is not measured externally but internally; that all of the rewards we can confer on each other, the most precious is a place as a valued fellow citizen."
The following order will be my guess of using the reciprocity synonyms and ranking them to intelligence from low to high by how likely we use the chosen word:
1. Would you use the word exchange more likely when talking about doing something in return?
2. Or would you use cooperation?
3. Partnership?
4. How about mutuality?
5. I had never heard of reciprocality until today.
How would you have ranked these synonyms?
Want to try another? Do you use overbearing, high and mighty, uppity, cavalier, or audacious words? Or do you have hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia - the fear of long words?
Personally, I think if you use reciprocality, as seen above, in your everyday conversation when discussing return agreements you might be a:
1. Know-it-all
2. Big mouth
3. Bragger
4. Egomaniac
5. Braggadocio
Or in others words, a SHOW OFF!
I remember one day in the 1990s my middle school principal mentioned in a faculty meeting about the reciprocity of Florida allowing one of our Georgia teachers to be able to teach there without having to jump through their state requirements to do so.
I had never used that word before. I knew it must have the root word reciprocal so why not just say reciprocal agreement? Show-off.
Let’s look at that word. Here are some synonyms: cooperation, exchange, mutuality, reciprocality, reciprocation, partnership, relationship. I bet there are some synonyms in that group you would use on a daily basis and then there are some that are a little overbearing, uppity, high and mighty, cavalier, or audacious.
What is a word for someone with a large vocabulary? It’s sesquipedalian. In reality, even the word sesquipedalian is in fact sesquipedalian. It can also be used to describe someone or something that overuses big words, like a philosophy professor or a chemistry textbook. Do you know any one like that?
Does knowing big words make you smart? Intelligent people tend to be more well-read. It's important to note that a large vocabulary is more than just knowing a few big words. ... The more you improve your vocabulary, the more your intelligence will increase.
Have you heard of the Bell Curve? This graph shows the spread of values of anything affected by the cumulative effects of randomness. Founded in the 19th century, there’s no shortage of those: from stock market jitters to human heights and IQ. Many phenomena follow at least a rough approximation of the Bell Curve, with the most common value in the center, and rarer, more extreme values to either side. An intelligence quotient (IQ) is a total score derived from a set of standardized tests or subtests designed to assess human intelligence.
The curve peaks at the top with a score of an average 100. Sixty-eight percent of us fall in between the scores of 85 and 115. Ninety-six percent of us fall in between 70 and 130. You can see the pattern. The bottom of the bell graph has the fewest percentages of either IQ extreme. Special education classes in school for both slower and gifted students are designed for both ends of the graph curve.
The book, The Bell Curve, published 1994, states "Inequality of endowments, including intelligence, is a reality. Trying to pretend that inequality does not really exist has led to disaster. Trying to eradicate inequality with artificially manufactured outcomes has led to disaster. It is time for America once again to try living with inequality, as life is lived: understanding that each human being has strengths and weaknesses, qualities we admire and qualities we do not admire, competencies and incompetencies, assets and debits; that the success of each human life is not measured externally but internally; that all of the rewards we can confer on each other, the most precious is a place as a valued fellow citizen."
The following order will be my guess of using the reciprocity synonyms and ranking them to intelligence from low to high by how likely we use the chosen word:
1. Would you use the word exchange more likely when talking about doing something in return?
2. Or would you use cooperation?
3. Partnership?
4. How about mutuality?
5. I had never heard of reciprocality until today.
How would you have ranked these synonyms?
Want to try another? Do you use overbearing, high and mighty, uppity, cavalier, or audacious words? Or do you have hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia - the fear of long words?
Personally, I think if you use reciprocality, as seen above, in your everyday conversation when discussing return agreements you might be a:
1. Know-it-all
2. Big mouth
3. Bragger
4. Egomaniac
5. Braggadocio
Or in others words, a SHOW OFF!
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