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Vocab: Wunderkind

Monday Nov 10, 2008 – by

wunderkind \VOON-duhr-kint\, noun; plural wunderkinder \-kin-duhr\

1. A child prodigy.
2. One who achieves great success or acclaim at an early age.

In the mid-thirties, he became the youngest and best state director of FDR’s National Youth Administration, a Texas wunderkind who at age twenty-eight beat several better known opponents for a south-central Texas congressional seat.
– Robert Dallek, Flawed Giant

Resource: Dictionary.com

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  1. PatriceFloy says:
    November 10, 2008 at 1:16 am

    I think I’m a wunderkind:)

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