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Are You the Smartest Person on Snapchat?
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By: Jonnathan Chadwick
6 Min Quiz
The first words were likely invented by the first humans, and there's no way of knowing how they came to be. How did the word "sun" come to define that giant star in the sky, and why is a tree called a "tree"? We'll never know. But what we do know is that thousands of words are created each year, and there is a word for everything. There are several ways to make words: adding prefixes or suffixes, truncating words, onomatopoeia, combining words, borrowing words, changing word meanings or simply creating them from thin air.
With all these possibilities come words like cattywampus, taradiddle and whippersnapper. There are more words than concrete and abstract things on Earth, and with all these words came the invention of the ten-dollar word, which was first used in the late 19th century. Among the first ten-dollar words were "totalitarianism" and "psychology," and the term defines a big and pretentious word. Today's ten-dollar words come in all sizes and languages and are obscure, uncommon or pretentious. Although considered uncommon, the right ten-dollar word at the right time and place can change everything. The wrong word will ruin everything. It's not a bad idea to have a cache of ten-dollar words ready to use whenever you need, so let's see if you can define these ones.
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