Building up your own vocabulary

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Build up your own dictionary

There is always a question: how to develop or build up your vocabulary? Some people write down the words in the note book or try to organize electronic vocabulary.

Every day you’ll probably find at least one or two unknown words. This site may help with buzz words of the day: www.wordcentral.com

This is an example of the site stuff:

July 18, 2010

verily (adverb)

\VAIR-uh-lee\

What does it mean?

: in fact : certainly

How do you use it?

"They disputed long, but in the end, Merlin, scoffing, said, 'Wherefore hath he not NAMED his brave calamity? Verily it is because he can-not.'" (Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court)

Are you a word wiz?

"Verily" comes from the Latin word "verus." If "verily" means "certainly," what do you think "verus" means?

A. like

B. false

C. hamburger

D. true