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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.

19 Words That Make You Seem Smart . . . And actually make you smarter

Of course, a list of words that convey intelligence could fill a small dictionary, but given space limitations, My Psychology Today article today offers  19 that seem particularly useful in today’s roiling times. I use COVID-related examples of how each word could be used.
Using these words, many of which aren't fancy, should add intelligence and nuance to what you say or write.

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.

The Meaning Behind the Meaning: A short-short story about lexical love

This is the second in a three-part series. It's for professionals who'd like to improve their vocabulary. The words are particularly helpful to people in the helping professions. This installment uses the short-short story format to avoid the how-to article’s aridity.

This installment uses the short-short story format to avoid the how-to article’s aridity.

46 Uncommon But Useful Words

As my PsychologyToday.com contribution today, I define 46 uncommon but useful words.