-Isms: Views on life in rural America

If I ask you to define nuance or manifest or antecedent, would you be able to provide an answer?

According to a recent study, “nuanced” is the “hardest SAT word.”

Shades of gray, I say.

Crossword experts at WordDB.com measured “the difficulty of every word listed as an answer option in the reading and writing section of the most-recent SAT practice tests.”

The study’s methodology: evaluate the number of times each state searched on Google for the definition of 257 words included in six SAT practice exams.

Back to nuanced. According to study results, the word, which translates to having multipl...