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realusername
4mo ago
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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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nyeah
4mo ago
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.
plumeria
4mo ago
Is there any overlap between these unusual and rare words and GRE vocabulary?
davidgay
4mo 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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