Quotes About Vocabulary

Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.

no podemos seguir ignorando el hecho de que seguir usando una y otra vez palabras llenas de negatividad no sólo no nos va a ayudar a resolver los problemas que esas mismas palabras describen, sino que, muy al contrario, lo va a hacer aún mucho más difícil. No estoy hablando de desterrar las palabras negativas de nuestro vocabulario, sino de procurar modular los vocablos que utilizamos.

Of all the words that exist in any language only a bare minority are pure, unadulterated, original roots. The majority are "coined" words, forms that have been in one way or another created, augmented, cut down, combined, and recombined to convey new needed meanings, The language mint is more than a mint; it is a great manufacturing center, where all sorts of productive activities go on unceasingly.

develop the 100 word vocabulary taught to the Lao tribesman to make the rudiments of combat conversation. A few nouns, some basic single tense verbs, names of weapons and directions made up the pidgin English. Like spice, flavor was added by whichever additional words the Special Forces teacher felt appropriate. The basic word denoting the reproductive act, and its many wondrous and colorful variations, was by far the most popular and common.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is really a large matter - it's the difference between a lightning bug and the lightning.

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

The difference between the almost-right word & the right word is really a large matter—it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter — it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.

Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. 'tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.

Don't gobblefunk around with words.

You know it's them books what make you talk funny.

I don't use big words to show off because it's ostentatious.

This year my goal will be to learn new vocabulary in English and to read as much as possible books.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.

You, inquisitor, are a man who collects words. You collect mine.

Arthur Scargill, the miners' leader and socialist, once told The Sunday Times, 'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.

adolescentes", cuyos rasgos principales son una resistencia endeble a la gravedad, un vocabulario compuesto de gruñidos, falta de conciencia espacial, dosis abundantes de masturbación y una voracidad desmedida por comer cereales.

This meant he belonged to a special subcategory of human called a "teenager," the chief characteristics of which were a weakened resistance to gravity, a vocabulary of grunts, a lack of spatial awareness, copious amounts of masturbation, and an unending appetite for cereal.

He was fifteen years old. This meant he belonged to a special subcategory of human called a "teenager," the chief characteristics of which were a weakened resistance to gravity, a vocabulary of grunts, a lack of spatial awareness, copious amounts of masturbation, and an unending appetite for cereal.

The man who once famously pronounced "I know words, I have the best words" scorched through the primaries using the vocabulary of a signing gorilla ("China—money—bad!").

All jargon of the schools.