Sounds like a trip to a school board is needed. Plethora. Did either of these incompetent idiots ever think to check a dictionary?
Read a book, how old school\s
I thought a Plethora was a dinosaur, just like a Thesaurus.
Good thing he didn’t use “niggardly.”
They probably thought “dictionary” was another swear word.
Sounds like they were just being niggardly with the vocabulary training.
Thank you for defining plethora, it means a lot.
I’ll tell you a real one. Second grade, 1971. Nasty old bat nun for a teacher. She had us draw a still life drawing of two pieces of fruit, an apple and an orange.
I drew the orange just fine but she didn’t like the apple because it wasn’t perfectly round. It was a little narrow on the bottom and wider on top because my mom usually bought Red Delicious apples and that’s what they looked like.
The old bat nun told me that’s not what apples looked like. I told her it was exactly like the apples my mom bought. She tore it up and made me redo it.
So I did. Narrow on the bottom, wider on top. Tore it up. Round 3. Narrow on the bottom, wider on top. She was too self-righteous to lose. And I was a perfectly correct seven-year old.
A couple weeks later at the art fair, there were 32 pictures on the wall of an orange and a perfectly round apple...and a 8 1/2x11 empty space where mine would have been.
I don’t remember if my dad had any reaction but I could tell my mom was beaming with pride.