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0 pointsrealusername7mo ago0 comments

Not to mention that the English dictionary is stuffed with legacy words that no natives understand. Is it even part of the language if no native use it? It's another debate.

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nyeah7mo ago· 2 in thread

It's stuffed with unusual and rare words, and no native speaker understands all of those.

But I think most of those words are in use somewhere, for something.

plumeria7mo ago

Is there any overlap between these unusual and rare words and GRE vocabulary?

davidgay7mo ago

The GRE vocabulary is actually based on French, Latin and Greek, not English. Much less rare and unusual once you realise that.

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