re/capitulate

I gave up reading and writing and nearly every other form of mental nourishment for a steady diet of television news and am talk radio. So it shouldn't surprise me but it does. Never before in my life did I think my vocabulary would ever be so constricted. Never did I once suspect that at a newly minted 24, I'd have lost my ability to pick ten dollar words out of a line up. 64 rounds of Boggle and not a single win. I'm not a man, I'm a carapace.