Special Day Today?!?

For the most part, I consider myself well-versed and quite literate in the English language. At times, better than the average American who was born and raised here, I suspect. I don't claim, however, to know everything. That is why I enjoy learning new vocabularies from either the Readers' Digest magazines, or occasionally a new word once a month or week while reading the news.

Well, today must be my special lucky day! Why? Because in a matter of less than two hours, I came across two words that I had no idea what they meant! The first one I couldn't even guess from the context, and the second one I was semi-correct, thanks to the Merriam Webster Dictionary.

Do you know what egress means? How about hubris?

If I come across another word I don't understand today, I swear I'll stop reading the news for the rest of the day, or I'll just throw in the towel, stand up on the desk of my cubicle, and scream, "I, John of Taipei, am a stupid, dumb f*ck!"

Or maybe not...



Egress (noun): 1) the action or right of going or coming out; 2) a place or means of going out.
Hubris (noun): exaggerated pride or self-confidence.

[Note: Can you imagine if the signs in our buildings read EGRESS/SALIDAS? I would be tempted to think that both words were Mexican!]

[Double-note: I didn't write Spanish on purpose, cos I thought it would be funny to use Mexican as its own language.]