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If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.
Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study.
What is another name for a Thesaurus?
A handful of letters doesn't always make a word, love.
If I was dealing with a trader, every other word had to be a four-letter word.
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This sentence consists of eleven words, twenty-three syllables and seventy-four letters.
Damn it all! What rhymes with rhythm?
WORK is a four-lettered word, that ends with a "K
Letters should be easy and natural.
Basic dictionaries no longer belong on paper; the greatest, the 'Oxford English Dictionary,' has nimbly remade itself in cyberspace, where it has doubled in size and grown more timely and usable than ever.
Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny.
Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down.
Vocabulary spills I'm ill.
We must plow through the whole of language.
Another words, aWords-- Barry Ford
A single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought
For precisely when concepts fail one,
Words are found at the right time.
Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.
As with anything you set out to learn in life, you don't get from point A to point Z without touching upon all those letters in between.
X, n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language.
Thanks to the redundancy of language, yxx cxn xndxrstxnd whxt x xm wrxtxng xvxn xf x rxplxcx xll thx vxwxls wxth xn "x" (t gts lttl hrdr f y dn't vn kn whr th vwls r)
Words have their genealogy, their history, their economy, their literature, their art and music, as too they have their weddings and divorces, their successes and defeats, their fevers, their undiagnosable ailments, their sudden deaths. They also have their moral and social distinctions.
Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using.
I'm a vocabulary nerd.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if I won a helicopter in a crossword puzzle competition? There is not much hope though I am afraid, as they never give such practical prizes.
Atomize and refigure the word.
Hear the meaning within the word.
X-awake. X-elegant.
Trying to find equivalents for things in words helps me find equivalents in painting.
What I need is an Urban Thesaurus. I know what money is what I need is 600 different ways to say it.
the best 4 letter word in the world is Hope
Those are the two best words in English, 'Bidding' and 'war'.
I threw out all those Latin words - the ones that end in 'ion' - the ones that never quite describe you ...
Words are fossilized butterfly wings,
pretty to look at sometimes,
but only good for Museums.
I want to miserably burn down the Museums.
I preferred the simplest vocabulary.
What so wild as words are?
There are words which cut like steel.
There is room for words on subjects other than last words.
English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new meanings, and we borrow new words from any language that intrudes into our intellectual environment.
Words are miraculous things. They describe, captivate, provoke, vivify, encompass, pervade, inspire, preserve, and comfort. So much more than that, in fact, so as to leave me at a loss of ... words.
The trouble with dictionaries is, they tell you more about words than you want to know without answering the question you have.
There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.'
How many
Pieces
Of bread
Separate
These words:
Needy,
Fine,
Wasteful?
Cross-examination is beyond any doubt the greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth ... Cross-examination, not trial by jury, is the great and permanent contribution of the Anglo-American system of law to improved methods of trial-procedure.
Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer the short word to the long. Prefer the Saxon word to the Romance.
There are so many words in our language; we get to know so few of them.
In a riddle whose answer is chess, what is the only prohibited word?
Words are the birds that break cover and show your enemy where you're hiding.
There are many words for push, take, shove, carry, load, and no words for love, or happiness, or the sounds which birds make in the morning.
Prefer the specific to the general, the definite to the vague, the concrete to the abstract.
There is no better moment in life than finding the right word.
The dictionary is a wonderful thing, but you can't let it push you around.
I wrote it three times - with a Thesaurus.
Words (which means from one place to another) and (which
Occasionally, the whole class struggle may be summed up in the struggle for one word against another word. Certain words struggle amongst themselves as enemies. Other words are the site of an ambiguity: the stake in a decisive but undecided battle
Don't repeat this word again
Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing.
You only need four words to spell the greatest word in the universe: L.O.V.E.
If I were in a position to announce a public competition to coin a new word, I would do so right now.
The Word ought to be exposed in the words
Careful writers and discerning readers delight in the profusion of words in the English lexicon, no two of which are exact synonyms. Many words convey subtle shades of meaning,
I've been working on 'The New York Times' crossword puzzle on the subway. I can make it until about Wednesday.
Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.
All of us possess a reading vocabulary as big as a lake but draw from a writing vocabulary as small as a pond. The good news is that the acts of searching and gathering always expand the number of usable words.
first four letters, and used to write them out
A bad word that I can't say that starts with f.
one of the worst things about electronic communication. Lacking facial expression, tone of voice, or context, words could be taken any number of ways. With only one cryptic word now, I was discouraged.
What is required is sight and insight- then you might add one more: excite.
Photos should suggest a word(s) and vice versa. They should be equal and interchangeable.
We wail, batten, sport, clip, clasp, sunder, dwindle, die:
Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.
W- Work of Art
A- Achiever
R- Resilient
R- Radical
I- Independent
O- Organized
R- Resourceful
I search the language for a word
to tell you how red is red.
The story of the English writing system is so intriguing, and the histories behind individual words so fascinating, that anyone who dares to treat spelling as an adventure will find the journey rewarding.
We all had to search for more words to describe things.
I feel like I'd be good at 'Password.' Or 'Pyramid.'
Buggeration and Fuckery
Words are a puzzle; put them together the right way and you get something beautiful.
Societies around the system. With every letter
I find words really hard.
Learning to decipher words had only added to the pleasures of holding spines and turning pages, measuring the journey to the end with a thumb-riffle, poring over frontispieces. Books! Opening with a crackle of old glue, releasing perfume; closing with a solid thump.
do a typing and shorthand
Words are such fun!
Waves, sky, trees, Essrog - I was off the page now, away from the grammar of skyscrapers and pavement.
Writing's in the nouns.
Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.
Hope, Joy, Youth, Peace, Rest, Life, Dust, Ashes, Waste, Want, Ruin, Despair, Madness, Death, Cunning, Folly, Words, Wigs, Rags, Sheepskin, Plunder, Precedent, Jargon, Gammon, and Spinach.
One must be able to say at all times
instead of points, straight lines, and planes
tables, chairs, and beer mugs
Use the smallest word that does the job.
In the first few days, I failed to distinguish between collar and color, khaki and car key, letters and lettuce, bed and bared, karma and calmer. Needing
What are words without the melody?
Work is a four-letter word that ends with "K.
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
There are a lot of other things besides nouns.
HASH: There is no definition for this word - nobody knows what hash is.
The words of the world want to make sentences.
How many words are you having trouble with, sir?"
"Just the ones that I've highlighted."
"I count at least a dozen, and I haven't gotten out of the first paragraph."
"That's as far as I got, too. I'm not sure you and I speak the same language.
The idiot greens the meadow with his eyes,
The meadow creeps implacable and still;
A dog barks, the hammock swings, he lies.
One two three the cows bulge on the hill.
How do you spell 'contravention'?" said Carrot, turning over a page.
"I don't," said Nobby, pushing through the crowds.