66 Words You Should Use

These are words that even many educated don't use but should. My Psychology Today article today lists 66, defines them and uses them in a sentence.

41 Useful Words and a Fun Way to Learn Them

In the 5th and final installment of a five-part series aimed at helping professionals improve their vocabulary, I offer 41 words that are more precise in their meaning than their more common synonym. And to encourage the reader to learn them, I offer one of the few tasks I remember doing in school that I liked: writing a story that used all the words. And lest I be guilty of asking my readers to do that which I wouldn't, I wrote such a story. That's my PsychologyToday.com article today.

Saying What You Intend: 17 distinctions you should make.

This is the final installment in a four-part series designed to help professionals take their vocabulary to the highest level likely needed.
 
In it, I describe 17 examples of pairs or trios of words that are often thought to be interchangeable but aren't.

The Beyond-the-GRE Word Quiz, plus the 327 words on my to-learn list.

My PsychologyToday.com article today is the third in a four-part series aimed at helping professionals take their vocabulary to the highest level you’ll need in the real world.
 
I present 21 words in a sentence.  Your job is to decide whether it’s being used correctly. Simply decide; true or false.

After I provide the answers, I've appended the definitions of the 327 words I identified in doing the research for this series. They are the words I had heard of or read but didn’t know their meaning. There are worse uses of your time than to learn ten a night, perhaps just an activity to do during the commercials on TV.