Word of the Day: aptitude

The word aptitude has appeared in 40 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Feb. 7 in “A Trailblazing Black Cartoonist’s Work: ‘It’s Unapologetic, and It’s the Truth’” by Robert Ito:

… She loved to draw, and as the youngest child of Brumsic Brandon Jr., whose own nationally syndicated strip about inner-city Black children, “Luther,” ran from 1968 to 1986, she was never at a loss for art supplies.

When Brandon-Croft was in junior high school, her father needed help applying Zipatone, a form of coloring, to his strips. The artist gave his three children tests to see who might have an aptitude for it. “My brother had the shakiest hand,” she remembered. “We kept his drawing up for a long time, just so we could laugh at it.”

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