<p>I actually knew what ‘paucity’ meant from the start. However, despite your critique, you only helped prove my point by showing how knowing the prefix ‘pan’ can help. If you can think of Pan-African Association and all the other Pan-something organizations, then the definition follows easily. Perhaps that is the reason the first word that popped into mind when I saw the word was ‘everywhere.’ Had I not known the definition of paucity, I am sure one way or another I would have found a link for explaining my instinctual definition of the word ‘panoply.’</p>
<p>“proving that luck counts” - I suppose a perfect score on the PSAT reading comp section and a perfect score for vocab questions on the SAT is luck?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t have responded with that last cheap shot, but the implications of your reply were both conceited and asinine. I was merely attempting to share a methodology which has clearly brought me success on the vocab portion of the test.</p>