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In the sixth grade, I had to study for and take a federal and state constitution test.  It was a requirement to graduate elementary school and advance to high school.  Instead of giving the test in eighth grade, as had been customary, the class was moved to the sixth grade to allow students three times to take the test before being held back from high school.
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That same year, I  was also in an advanced English class that emphasized reading and vocabulary.  We were given the list of the best one hundred books that potential college students should read in high school.  We were also given a list of approximately one thousand words we should learn before we went to college.  The goal of the class was to read at least ten of the books and to learn the meaning of and how to spell each word during the school year.
My plate was full that year.  However, it was one of the best academic years of my life.  I learned so much about the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the U.S. Constitution.  The books I read also unlocked the mysteries of human behavior.  I began to better understand the world around me.Â
There were several words I learned that overlapped both classes that year.  Two of them were comity and fealty.  According to the dictionary, there are multiple meanings for each word.  However, comity essentially means courtesy and consideration to others, and fealty means intense fidelity or faithfulness.
