vocabulary

This year my goal will be to learn new vocabulary in English and to read as much as possible books.

Norman Mailer enhances the beauty of pugilism by elegantly exploring it.

He shook his head,'Fuck, you say such fucking weird things.''Is that still your favourite word?' asked Isola interestedly, 'I like "verisimilitude". Tolkein said the most beautiful English phrase is "cellar door",

If I had been born in the 1700__, presumably children had a bigger vocabulary than I had which means I wouldn__ have been able to recite fairy tales to kids because I__ not smart enough.You know_?I__ have to be like_..uh:In time passed, though not long ago, there lived three pigs in stature, little in number, three, who being of an age both entitled and inspired to seek their fortune did set about to do thusly.When they had traveled a distance, pig numbered first spake saying, __arken Brethren, head this impetuous realm! Tarry me far from hearth and home I fear we shall fair *snort* not well!_ And so being collectively agreed, but individually impaled, the diminutive swine sought each to erect himself an abode.....

In God__ vocabulary, __ost_ is an unnecessary adjective that is easily erased by the adjective __ound_ if we would simply be brave enough to hand Him the eraser.

He was telling an interesting anecdote full of exciting words like "encyclopedia" and "rhododendron".

Sacrifice is a noun in my vocabulary that should be a verb in my life.

Right!""Right!""You can get there!""I can get there!""You're a natural at counting to two!""I'm a nat'ral at counting to two!""If you can count to two, you can count to anything!""If I can count to two, I can count to anything!""And then the world is your mollusc!""My mollusc! What's a mollusc?

When Internet parlance finds its way into our accepted vocabulary, it becomes a cliché.

So much of what we read and write these days is disposable.

Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

All conversation, big or small, is about painting word pictures of your experiences for other people. The more

PLEASE and THANK YOU...two polite phrases which are slowly disappearing from our vocabulary.

I have a Greek-American friend who named her daughter "Nike" and is often asked why she chose to name her offspring after a sneaker.

There are two words that I believe could be completely eradicated from our vocabulary _ __ can__._ These two words are so definite that they leave absolutely no room for hope. Instead, I suggest we use the phrase, __ow can I?

Lincoln bought a German language newspaper.

Cussing doesn__ come from a lack of vocabulary _ I know all the other words. None of them speak the same language that my fucking heart does.

[T]he accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis.