http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2006/05/07/vocabulary-words/ Web site and blog for Maria Langer, freelance writer, commercial helicopter pilot, and serious amateur photographer. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:43:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.aneclecticmind.com/2006/05/07/vocabulary-words/#comment-305 Jon von Gunten Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:00:04 +0000 http://www.aneclecticmind.com/?p=550#comment-305 Ms. Langer has created a great list of vocabulary words! And she's right that no amount of good reader instincts can replace a good dictionary, especially one with derivations. Often I've checked a definition for a word whose primary definition I knew, but that wasn't quite making sense in the verbal environment where I saw it. Usually, I find the author's background gave him or her a different definition that I'd never have figured out on my own, and could only have found in that four-pound dictionary. (And another cheer goes up for electronic dictionaries and the Web!) Ms. Langer has created a great list of vocabulary words! And she’s right that no amount of good reader instincts can replace a good dictionary, especially one with derivations. Often I’ve checked a definition for a word whose primary definition I knew, but that wasn’t quite making sense in the verbal environment where I saw it. Usually, I find the author’s background gave him or her a different definition that I’d never have figured out on my own, and could only have found in that four-pound dictionary. (And another cheer goes up for electronic dictionaries and the Web!)

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