46 Vocabulary Quotes & Sayings with Wallpapers & Posters

Q: What is the best Vocabulary quote?

"The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return." - Milan Kundera

Q: What are some Vocabulary quotes?

"A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness of fine distinctions and subtle nuances of meaning, the more fertile and precise is likely to be one's thinking. Knowledge of things and knowledge of the words for them grow together. If you do not know the words, you can hardly know the thing." - Henry Hazlitt "I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse." - Woody Allen "We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them." - Abigail Adams

Q: What are some short Vocabulary quotes?

"Don't call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it's not sexist." - Eleanor Roosevelt "Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it." - Alexander Theroux "Few activities are as delightful as learning new vocabulary." - Tim Gunn

Q: What is good short Vocabulary quote?

"So what's the point of using words nobody else knows or can say comfortably? I just don't understand that." - Stephen Chbosky

My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary.

Will I have to use a dictionary to read your book?" asked Mrs. Dodypol. "It depends," says I, "how much you used the dictionary before you read it.

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Mathews, 1967; Schlagal, 2002; Schlagal, 2007; Smith, 2002).Many phonics, spelling, and vocabulary programs are characterized by explicit skill instruction, a systematic scope and sequence, and repeated practice.

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Few activities are as delightful as learning new vocabulary.

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He was telling an interesting anecdote full of exciting words like "encyclopedia" and "rhododendron".

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Greeley knew no language but his, but of that, he possessed a most extraordinary mastery. An employee

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Lincoln bought a German language newspaper.

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To enjoy and learn from what you read you must understand the meanings of the words a writer uses. You do yourself a grave disservice if you read around words you don’t know, or worse, merely guess at what they mean without bothering to look them up.For me, reading has always been not only a quest for pleasure and enlightenment but also a word-hunting expedition, a lexical safari.

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Emily said ... Well, I read that it's important to sleep. While you sleep, the hippopotamus in your brain replays things that happend during the day, e.g. what you studied. So therefore it remembers it for you.

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Don't call a woman a bitch. Call her an ass-hole. It still gets your point across and it's not sexist.

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Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems distinct almost within reach, but is elusive; it refuses to condense into definite form; the attaching of a word somehow (just how, it is almost impossible to say) puts limits around the meaning, draws it out from the void, makes it stand out as an entity on its own account.

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Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

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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.

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A true lady should have the wit and the imagination, or at least the very restraint, to express herself without resorting herself to such base vocabulary.

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Language construction will BREED a mythology. J.R.R. Tolkien

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In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet, because language itself is poetry. – Owen Barfield

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As vocabulary is reduced , so are the number of feelings you can express, the number of events you can describe, the number of the things you can identify! Not only understanding is limited, but also experience. Man grows by language. Whenever he limits language he retrogresses!

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Lethargy. It's a word I know, because it's in one of my father's favorite expressions. Lethargy breeds lethargy. It means the more you lie around doing nothing, the more you want to lie around doing nothing. Your limbs and your mind feel so heavy that it becomes a major effort just to lift your arm to channel surf.

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Short words are best, and old words when short are best of all.

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It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task.

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So what's the point of using words nobody else knows or can say comfortably? I just don't understand that.

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The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think...and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.

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[T]he accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis.

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By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.

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I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.

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The best way to ensure that your writing is as good as you can make it is simply to consult your imagination and judgment as you write and take note of whether you are using an expression that has found its way into the stream simply because it's always there, swirling lifelessly in an eddy, where it was recently deposited by some other writer you have read.

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I have a Greek-American friend who named her daughter "Nike" and is often asked why she chose to name her offspring after a sneaker.

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There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine, or finance, could be used to accelerate learning and other arenas, too.

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Metaphor isn't just decorative language. If it were, it wouldn't scare us so much. . . . Colorful language threatens some people, who associate it, I think, with a kind of eroticism (playing with language in public = playing with yourself), and with extra expense (having to sense or feel more). I don't share that opinion. Why reduce life to a monotone? Is that truer to the experience of being alive? I don't think so. It robs us of life's many textures. Language provides an abundance of words to keep us company on our travels. But we're losing words at a reckless pace, the national vocabulary is shrinking. Most Americans use only several hundred words or so. Frugality has its place, but not in the larder of language. We rely on words to help us detail how we feel, what we once felt, what we can feel. When the blood drains out of language, one's experience of life weakens and grows pale. It's not simply a dumbing down, but a numbing.

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The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

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I understand the gist of your speculation,' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.

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So much of what we read and write these days is disposable.

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We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues.

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...he remembered his uncle saying once how little vocabulary man really needed to get comfortably and even efficiently through his life, how not only in the individual but within his whole type and race and kind a few simple cliches served his few simple passions and needs and lusts.

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The word is only a representation of the meaning; even at its best, writing almost always falls short of full meaning. Given that, why in God's name would you want to make things words by choosing a word which is only cousin to the one you really wanted to use?

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One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed.

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Vocabulary words are the building blocks of the internal learning structure. Vocabulary is also the tool to better define a problem, seek more accurate solutions, etc.

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A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness of fine distinctions and subtle nuances of meaning, the more fertile and precise is likely to be one's thinking. Knowledge of things and knowledge of the words for them grow together. If you do not know the words, you can hardly know the thing.

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Right!""Right!""You can get there!""I can get there!""You're a natural at counting to two!""I'm a nat'ral at counting to two!""If you can count to two, you can count to anything!""If I can count to two, I can count to anything!""And then the world is your mollusc!""My mollusc! What's a mollusc?

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We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.

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Dear me, what would this barren vocabulary get out of the mightiest spectacle?—the burning of Rome in Nero's time, for instance? Why, it would merely say, 'Town burned down; no insurance; boy brast a window, fireman brake his neck!' Why, THAT ain't a picture!

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Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.

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Human understanding more easily invents new things than new words.

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Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.

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A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language you don't hear just with your ears.

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He uses the nice old words so rich in tradition to be sure I know he means it.

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