Word count: 241 words Reading time: About 1 minute Increase your vocabulary and you’ll make your writing much more precise. That’s why I provide a word of the week. Today’s word: cudgel. I have to confess: I’ve never been a Star Trek fan. (Nor a Lord of the Rings fan, […]
Word count: 272 words Reading time: Just over 1 minute Increase your vocabulary and you’ll make your writing much more precise. That’s why I provide a word of the week. Today’s word: recrudescence. In 2010, I read the marvellous novel Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. It won the Pulitzer in
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Word count: 240 words Reading time: Less than 1 minute Increase your vocabulary and you’ll make your writing much more precise. That’s why I provide a word of the week. Today’s word: mishegoss. Somehow, when I saw the word mishegoss, I knew it was Yiddish, even though I didn’t know
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Word count: 195 words Reading time: Less than 1 minute Increase your vocabulary and you’ll make your writing much more precise. That’s why I provide a word of the week. Today’s word: maculations. I don’t reach much poetry but whenever I do, I always regret not reading more. A friend
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Word count: 246 words Reading time: 1 minute Increase your vocabulary and you’ll make your writing much more precise. That’s why I provide a word of the week. Today’s word: rapacity. I’ve always enjoyed the acting of Gerard Depardieu. I saw him first in the film My American Uncle in 1980.
Word count: 209 words Reading time: Less than 1 minute Increase your vocabulary and you’ll make your writing much more precise. That’s why I provide a word of the week. Today’s word: simony. Although Christine Pountney’s writing has been described by the Toronto Star as: “confident, precise and readable,” I
Word count: 242 words Reading time: Less than 1 minute Increase your vocabulary and you’ll make your writing much more precise. That’s why I provide a word of the week. Today’s word: autodidact. Gun stories sadden me. Gun stories that occur on a university campus seem even more deplorable. New
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Word count: 254 words Reading time: About 1 minute Increase your vocabulary and you’ll make your writing much more precise. That’s why I provide a word of the week. Today’s word: desiderata I know I’m dating myself when I admit this, but I had an onionskin copy of the prose poem,
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Word count: 243 words Reading time: About 1 minute Increase your vocabulary and you’ll make your writing much more precise. That’s why I provide a word of the week. Today’s word: trilby. I had a Danish boyfriend when I was young and I learned a little about the culture but
Word count: 232 words Reading time: Less than 1 minute Increase your vocabulary and you’ll make your writing much more precise. That’s why I provide a word of the week. Today’s word: lèse-majesté . I was in grade 6 when Richard Nixon was elected to office. I was too young for
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