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good advice on how to increase your pool of vocabulary – and become able to use these words?
Recently, I relieased the great importance of having a large pool of words and phrases at my own disposal – for different social settings, understanding others, describing a thought, an idea, a process, almost anything involving verbal communication.
However, i find myself using the words and phrases I have been accustomed to use since I was a child. Recently, I started to read alot…
Do you know a good method to increase your vocabulary? And how do you master these words – like consciouly incorporate them into your conversation, writing so on? Are there any good books or sites on this subject?
I really want to improve my word choice and in turn the style of my speech!!
Be careful of what you wish for and which tools you pick up in order to express your desires. Let your words be in concert with your mind and your mind in harmony with your words. Reading is, indeed, the first link in that chain. Read with a dictionary close at hand. Do not think that reading just anything will make you wise. Nor will putting a large vocabulary into your mouth make you any more understandable.
Read Ralph Waldo Emerson for thoughts loftier and more succinctly put. Read Baltasar Gracian for true wisdom regarding the condition of human interaction. If you say that their vocabularies are not what you wish, and Gracian certainly did not write in English so the translations will be stilted anyway, try reading Kim Stanley Robinson. He is sold in Science Fiction. Pick up _40 Signs of Rain_ and then the sequal _50 Degrees Below_ for a cultural education.
Try putting a vocabulary word up on your bathroom mirror. Use it at least three times in one day. Find a use for it. There are daily desk calendars like that.
One of my favorites, and I have had a few, was frangible. Means “crumbly”: I used it to describe the cladding on nuclear fuel, my mood after teaching all day on my tortured right leg, the situation in Iraq among the Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds. Frangible.
Read poetry. There you have wordsmiths paring vocabularly. Ah, the best and brightest today are pushing those words hard. I do not mean the dreck we see posted here. Read modern stuff from the Beats on forward.
That is enough to get you started. Oh, one other thing. Remember that communication is only possible between equals. You start using words and phrases no one understands, you might as well be reciting Jabberwocky. Might amuse you, but annoys the h3ll out of others. Example is a joke I wrote for an answer to a question. Read my joke and the answer right below. *sigh*
BTW, I teach nuclear science, radiation chemistry, and tech writing at a nuclear power plant. I am also a published poet and have been an editor of poetry magazines.
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