Here's my using dickwad in a sentence. Greg is such a dickwad, he locks his car in the Pagoda Pizza parking lot. (No. That isn't a real Vocab word.)

A.S. King

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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.

Wilfred Funk

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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.

Neal Shusterman

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My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary.

Margaret Edson

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The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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By the time they are 4 years old, children from poor families have heard 32 million fewer words than children with professional parents.

Betty Hart

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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!

Mark Twain

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

Kate DiCamillo

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The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

J.K. Rowling

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

Mark Twain

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