Word count: 290 words Reading time: Just over 1 minute If you increase your vocabulary you’ll not only help your reading, you’ll also make your writing more precise. Today, my word of the week is sessile. I like to think I have a large vocabulary but there’s one part of my brain that’s so empty […]
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Word count: 215 words Reading time: Less than 1 minute If you increase your vocabulary you’ll not only help your reading, you’ll also make your writing more precise. Here is my word of the week. When I read Cal Newport’s book So Good They Can’t Ignore You last month, I scribbled a note to myself
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Word count: 261 words Reading time: Just over 1 minute A terrific way to improve your writing skills is to emulate the work of others. Here is a sentence I read recently that I’d happily imitate. This summer, a friend recommended the novel Ragged Company by Ojibway author Richard Wagamese. When she told me the
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Word count: 206 words Reading time: Less than 1 minute If you increase your vocabulary, you’ll not only benefit your own reading, you’ll also become more precise in your writing. Here is my word of the week. Whenever I encounter a word that interests me I jot a quick note about it in my iPhone. Usually,
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Word count: 264 words Reading time: About 1 minute If you increase your vocabulary you’ll not only help your reading, you’ll also make your writing more precise. Here is my word of the week. I’ve just finished reading the enthralling book, Moonwalking with Einstein, by Joshua Foer, it presents a riveting description of how the author trains
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Word count: 283 words Reading time: Just over 1 minute Building your vocabulary is always a good idea. It benefits your reading and it also helps you be more specific and precise in your writing. Here is my word of the week. I was in a coffee shop recently, where I read an interesting newspaper
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Word count: 253 words Reading time: About 1 minute If you increase your vocabulary you’ll not only help your reading, you’ll also make your writing more precise. Here is my word of the week. I have little interest in and certainly no aptitude for fashion. But I found a great deal of pleasure in the book
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Word count: 200 words Reading time: Less than 1 minute If you increase your vocabulary you’ll not only help your reading, you’ll also make your writing more precise. Here is my word of the week. Here is a word I’ve used many times without ever being 100% sure of its meaning (embarrassing, I know!) Preternaturally.
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Word count: 251 words Reading time: About 1 minute If you increase your vocabulary you’ll not only help your reading, you’ll also make your writing more precise. Here is my word of the week, peripatetic. When I read the Walter Isaacson biography of Steve Jobs, the author reminded me that novelist Mona Simpson (pictured here) was
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Word count: 207 words Reading time: Less than 1 minute Building your vocabulary is always a good idea. It benefits your reading and it also helps you be more specific and precise in your writing. Here is my word of the week, cupreous. I’m going through a Julian Barnes phase right now. I’d never read
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