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A test wearing a business suit so no one calls it scary.
means A formal evaluation of someone's or something's ability, quality, or worth, usually against set criteria.
from From Latin assessus/assessare, tied to assidere — 'to sit beside' — because the original assessor literally sat next to a judge to help fix the value of something, often for tax purposes. The word spent centuries in courtrooms and treasuries before it wandered into classrooms, carrying its bureaucratic, sums-and-sitting-in-judgment air with it.
- original use
- Assessing how much tax you owed
- modern irony
- Still feels like being charged for existing
- corporate rebrand
- Called performance review, same dread
- psychology term
- Assessment means evaluation, not judgment, officially