Seems like an odd word for a grad student not to know.

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Slowguy

(insert pithy phrase here...)

When I first read your post I thought "who doesn't know what and argument is?' Reread and realized it was augment. I made this post to augment yours. lol. I would think augment would be a word grad students would know. In a grad school interview I was once accused of prevaricating and I didn't know what the word meant. That was embarrassing.

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They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within
Dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good T.S. Eliot

I agree with slowguy. Any moderately-educated person should know what the word means. I'm also guessing that it was used in context, so they should have (at least) been able to infer its approximate meaning. If they can't accomplish that either, then they very likely shouldn't be in grad school.

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"The right to party is a battle we have fought, but we'll surrender and go Amish... NOT!" -Wayne Campbell

When I went to my interview to get into Physical Therapy School there were several professors interviewing a group of us. The question they asked was something like, "How do you think the changes with the new managed health care were going to affect the PT profession?" I had no idea what they were talking about. I was working at UPS, had Blue Cross/Blue Shield could still go to see any doc for whatever, etc.

I had never even heard of managed healthcare.

I'm surprised they never picked it up from other context or usage. They never heard of augmented reality? Or breast augmentation?

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Slowguy

(insert pithy phrase here...)

It's a word I think it's reasonable to expect people in post-graduate programs to know.

When I was younger I would have said it's a word anyone with an 8th grade or higher level of education should know, but I've come to recognize how atypical (on the good side) my public school educational experience was - the quality of students and teachers that I thought was pretty normal at the time was in fact much better than I realized.

Are any of these your students?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-t2TwLRdgk

Not that it should matter truthfully, but are they ESL?

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Gnothi Seauton.

musical term.

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sometimes

Here you go, how big is your's?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/...ames/vocabulary-quiz

https://www.arealme.com/...bulary-size-test/en/

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I'm beginning to think that we are much more fucked than I thought.

I got 3500 10/10 but not fast enough. The synonym for dim almost got me but then I remembered it being used to talk about that time just after the sun goes down.

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They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within
Dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good T.S. Eliot

It means “to make your tits bigger”.

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Civilize the mind, but make savage the body.

- Chinese proverb

That generation is very confused. 'Down' is 'Up' "hey, wanna go with me to the beach".."Yeah I'm down!" Sick is good: "The new Raptor is SICK!" You want to throw in 'augment'? That's just Cray...

I will be sure to get off your lawn, Grampa. :)

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''The enemy isn't conservatism. The enemy isn't liberalism. The enemy is bulls**t.''

—Lars-Erik Nelson

To be fair, "I'm down with that...." dates back to the 60s or before.


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Like fashion - it's all cyclical...Haven't heard Bitchen in a while by my 15 yr old has a playlist that includes Styx, Abba, Journey, Beatles, etc. She asked me if I've ever heard of REO Speedwagon!

How often is augment used in twitter and facebook feeds? I would suspect all the time spent on those and games must take away from book reading where you might see augment more often.

I'm with you. Most of my vocabulary I learned from books from the temple of learning the local public library.

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They constantly try to escape from the darkness outside and within
Dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good T.S. Eliot

My result on that second one was expleefious; so much so that I'm skeptical of their methodology and statoonery:


Your English Vocabulary Size is:
30150
★★★ Top 0.01%HighLow
★★★ Top 0.01%
You are Shakespeare! You can even create new words that will expand the English dictionary.

These quizzes seem to illustrate ego and lack of statistics understanding on Facebook at least. Sharing results should come with a dunce cap for your profile.

But, but, I am Shakespeare! Said they so! Way with words, have I.

Somewhat odd given how much people are talking about augmented reality in the health field.

To be fair, "I'm down with that...." dates back to the 60s or before.

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Even the grad school kids should recognize it in lyric form:

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