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One of the easiest ways to sound smart and cultured is to develop a rich vocabulary. Thankfully, with all the resources available to us today, all the media channels books and audio books, this is not hard. However, you must have an innate love for words and language, an appreciation of its power to enrich your life and your relationships. You might remember that line spoken by Robin Williams in the movie Dead Poets Society, in which he says that the purpose of language is to woo women! All kidding aside, you may have noticed that your most eloquent self comes out when you are trying to seduce another person in any sense of the word, be that person a love interest, a teacher, an employer; in brief, someone who has the power to benefit you and enrich your life in some way. As I go through life, I like to collect favorite words and phrases and write them down so I dont' forget them later - I would like to share some of these with you. Words & Expressions You Should Know A) Words: - Under way: in progress - Purposely: with a deliberate or express purpose - Imminent: ready to take place; especially: hanging threateningly over one's head imminent danger of being run over - Barrage: a vigorous or rapid outpouring or projection of many things at once - To elaborate: to expand something in detail elaborate on that statement - To regiment: 1) to form into or assign to a regiment 2) to organize rigidly especially for the sake of regulation or control - regiment an entire country - to subject to order or uniformity - Bewildered: to perplex or confuse especially by a complexity, variety, or multitude of objects or considerations scarcity: the quality or state of being scarce - Vista: a distant view through or along an avenue or opening : prospect 2 : an extensive mental view (as over a stretch of time or a series of events) - Abrogate: to abolish, to annul - Chastise: to inflict punishment on (as by whipping)/ to censure severely - Censure: an official reprimand/ the act of blaming or condemning sternly - Throughput: output, production - Mercurial: characterized by rapid and unpredictable changeableness of mood - Portend: to give an omen or anticipatory sign of - Backchat: gossipy or bantering conversation - Passable: good enough - Touchstone: a test or criterion for determining the quality or genuineness of a thing - Superlative: an admiring sometimes exaggerated expression especially of praise - Peasantry: the position, rank or behavior of a peasant - True-blue: marked by unswerving loyalty (as to a party) - To bomb: to fail - Volatile: (one meaning) characterized by or subject to rapid or unexpected change - Labile: readily open to change - Base syn. Ignoble: being of comparatively low value and having relatively inferior properties - Erratic: having no fixed course. - Quantitate: to measure or estimate the quantity of; especially: to measure or determine precisely - Conniption: a fit of rage, hysteria, or alarm - e.g.: exempli gratia, for example - Flurry: a sudden occurrence of many things at once - Tentative smile: uncertain smile - Recapitulate: to repeat the principal stages or phases of B. Expressions - Once a day and twice on Sunday - Folks who grub for money -- James Street - Top tier - Set in Stone - The 12th of never - A riddle wrapped in an enigma - Carte blanche - On the premise that... - Thitherto: up to that time; until then - To forgo: to give up the enjoyment or advantage of : do without - Forme fruste (froost) pl. formes frustes an atypical, especially a mild or incomplete, form, as of a disease. - Composite (noun): something composite : compound composite of two images - In loco parentis, Latin for "in the place of a parent" - Ostensibly: Synonyms: seemingly, apparently, arguably, at first blush, seemingly - Galore: abundant , plentiful (used postpositively) - To the same end... ...as per above - Vice versa: with the order changed Evanescent: appearing, then disappearing I leave you with these poetic words which I adore: "We are all victims, Anselmo. Our destinies are decided by a cosmic roll of the dice, the winds of the stars," the vagrant breezes of fortune that blow from the windmills of the gods." -H. L. Dietrich Phillip J. Reeves is a generalist, freelance writer, who combines his mobile lifestyle with his passion for sharing his knowledge. Visit his website: http://wordstosoundsmart.blogspot.com/ ------------------ ARTICLE END ------------------ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
