be more articulate

1.to implant by repeated statement or admonition; teach persistently and earnestly (usually fol. by upon or in): to inculcate virtue in the young.
2.to cause or influence (someone) to accept an idea or feeling (usually fol. by with): Socrates inculcated his pupils with the love of truth.

I must inculcate usages of “inculcate” to improve my articulation of the English language!! Inculcate also seems to be another word for embed or instill. I’m sure I could easily use this word today at least 5 times in my conversations – ohh, a sub-goal! Hooray.

which means bitter or caustic in nature, speech, behavior (dictionary.com) like an acrimonious answer, an acrimonious dispute. Sheila tersely responded with an acrimonious tone.

Anyway, I haven’t been keeping up with this goal as much as I’d like.

If you’re in school, I hear what helps is to constantly use words you don’t know in your compositions. Do it over and over again until you get to the point where you know the definition very well. This can work for several words in one paper.

read more books. your memory for vocabulary tends to expand when reading books, almost by taking on the author’s voice or remembering certain passages with a certain word in it.

also, i keep a weekly word list on my desktop by using the post-it program with the varying POS, definition, and example sentence. it’s pretty useful if you tend to stare into space… just redirect your eyes at the desktop.