vocabulary

Here's my using dickwad in a sentence. Greg is such a dickwad, he locks his car in the Pagoda Pizza parking lot. (No. That isn't a real Vocab word.)

Most of the machinery of modern language is labour-saving machinery; and it saves mental labour very much more than it ought. Scientific phrases are used like scientific wheels and piston-rods to make swifter and smoother yet the path of the comfortable. Long words go rattling by us like long railway trains. We know they are carrying thousands who are too tired or too indolent to walk and think for themselves. It is a good exercise to try for once in a way to express any opinion one holds in words of one syllable. If you say __he social utility of the indeterminate sentence is recognized by all criminologists as a part of our sociological evolution towards a more humane and scientific view of punishment,_ you can go on talking like that for hours with hardly a movement of the gray matter inside your skull. But if you begin __ wish Jones to go to gaol and Brown to say when Jones shall come out,_ you will discover, with a thrill of horror, that you are obliged to think. The long words are not the hard words, it is the short words that are hard. There is much more metaphysical subtlety in the word __amn_ than in the word __egeneration.

The word is only a representation of the meaning, even at its best, writing almost always falls short of full meaning.

Stephen King is a powerful guy, will powerful vocabulary.

The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

With my sometimes blunt indecent vocabulary & very vivid imagination, I wonder if I should be writing "other" kinds of content.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

Few activities are as delightful as learning new vocabulary.

The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think...and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.

The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.

By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.

It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task.

I will not impress you with words, I will prove to you their definition. It__ a genuine vocabulary.

The word is only a representation of the meaning; even at its best, writing almost always falls short of full meaning. Given that, why in God's name would you want to make things words by choosing a word which is only cousin to the one you really wanted to use?

In many a case, the phrase ____ like to get to know you better_ is a euphemism for __ want us to fuck.

I like to quote Shakespeare. But in this case, the rapper Eminem said it best: Words are a motherfucker.

Mr. Treadstone believed that there was always an apposite word. The English language, after all, was the richest in the world. If you couldn__ find the apposite word, if you found your language slipping into the mire of vagueness and obscurity, this meant that you needed to work on your vocabulary. Because the apposite word certainly existed _ and it was very eager to make your acquaintance.

I collect words--they are sweets in the mouth of sound.