Recently I have had the desire to go back to growing my vocabulary artificially, like we did in school. By this I mean that instead of just learning new words by the natural methods of reading, watching movies and talking to smarter people, I have been trying to use the dictionary, a thesaurus and dictionary.com to try and grow my vocabulary. The only problem is that, since I am no longer in school, I don't have to take a vocabulary test and therefore I just forget these new words long before I have a reason to use them.
Vocabulary is the arsenal of the writer. You don't want to have to resort to describing everything just because you don't know the one word that would describe what you want to say perfectly. I feel an urge to become more articulate. This won't just improve my writing, but my speech too. I thought for a bit and I think I figured out how to learn a new word every day, while helping others do the same.
I will be posting a new word right here, almost everyday and probably more on some days. The thing is, I want those who read the words and learn them to post a comment with the word used in the comment, hence making them learn, not just memorize the word.
Let's go then, here is our first word:
Abate:
(used when talking about an unwanted or negative object)
to diminish progressively, decrease, weaken, subside.
For more history and information about the usage of the word click here (Dictionary.com).
...and my sentence:
The effects of this recession is surely to start abating soon, only to be replaced with the slap of another consumer era, leaving us exactly where we started.
Let's hear your sentences now. Trust me once you think about a word long enough to construct a sentence around it, you learn what it means.
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