close reading
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.94 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Students almost universally hate close reading, and they rarely wind up understanding it anyway. Forced to pick out meaning in passages they don't fully grasp to begin with, they begin to get the idea that English class is about simply making things up (Ah yes—the tree mentioned once on page 89 and then never again stands for weakness and loss!)"
Usage
Inflected Forms
close readings (plural)