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Alistair Barr • Google is losing its status as a verb
flibbertigibbet.
Kurt Vonnegut • Slaughterhouse-Five
(The original Latin word for ‘decide’, decidere, means ‘to cut off’, as in slicing away alternatives;
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.
asperity.
Stephen King • Holly
I still don’t think people realize how reading the dictionary and immersing yourself in language can be, 1) inherently fun, and 2) good for a writer. I get funny, ranged reactions when I mention this new hobby to people.
comely,
Neal Stephenson • Seveneves: A Novel
poetry
Mildred • 1 card
Sensitize yourself to denotation and connotation. Denotation, the dictionary definition of a word, refers to its explicit or literal meanings. Connotation, the suggestive power of a word, refers to its implicit or latent meanings. The denotations of peach (a single-seeded fruit with tangy yellowish pulp and downy skin that goes from yellow to red)
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