increase my vocabulary

sometimes, the people i’m around make me feel dumb. i understand that many people excel in one or the other sort of thing and my thing is animals. i don’t know much about the law, or about politics, or about history… so maybe if i use bigger words, sometimes people won’t look at me like i’m retarded for not caring so much about things that i’m not interested in.

From ‘Stop Swearing’.

I figure the more words I have to work with the less likely i’ll be to use the lazy ones =)

Use a new word once a day ? week ??

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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Thank you Dan Brown!

I’ve found that keeping a notepad about me when reading or watching intelligent TV comes in handy for jotting down any words I don’t know, typing ‘define:’ followed by a word into Google shows up definitions for that word, e.g: define:extemporaneously.

I need an effective plan to integrate this into my life. Perhaps I can think up some alternatives for when I’m angry?

I deracinated myself and moved 3,000 miles away from home.
1. To pluck up by the roots; to uproot.
2. To displace from one’s native or accustomed environment.

deracinate \dee-RAS-uh-nayt\, transitive verb:

A polyhistor.

(pol-ee-HIS-tuhr) noun, also polyhistorian

A person of great or wide learning.

It’s one of my goals, though.

so i can say fancy words and prove people wrong. im not just a hick. im a hick with a big vocab.

The study of animals’ behaviors in their natural environments.