Educate yourself, fool.
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On improving writing:
Mimic, Then Innovate
Pick a writer you love, copy a paragraph of theirs by hand, then rewrite it in your own voice. It’s like tracing to learn drawing—you’ll start to feel their rhythm and eventually find yours.
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Else - otherwise.
For all of these are translations into the visible of feelings else blind and inarticulate; and they are translations made with singular accuracy, with singularly little loss.
C.S, Lewis, The Allegory of Love
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May 25
As regards - regarding
The placement of a preposition, then, is a matter for individual discretion in a given instance, and the choice of preposition is usually a more important concern, at least as regards stylistic effects.
Grammar as Style
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May 13
Promontory - a high, rocky ridge of land that projects out into a body of water.
To sail into an unknown spring, or receive one's baptism on storm's promontory, I know that that is better.
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It’s really crazy that there is lots of money and girls locked inside your phone and you just have to figure out the sequence of buttons to press to get them out
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genuinely just go lock the fuck in anon
the retard who does beats the genius who thinks 10/10 times
the world is yours, you just have to go seize it
don’t listen to the idiots saying hard work is no longer the move. they’re lazy and coping
12 hour days until you’re there.
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Dawning - dawn.
The men shifted their feet like horses in a box-stall, and then went outside into the dawning.
Tortilla Flat
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Fray - a chaotic struggle.
They heard Danny charge to the fray.
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Aver - to state or assert to be the case.
It is passionately averred in Tortilla Flat that Danny alone drank three gallons of wine.
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Sate - to satisfy fully.
Some voice, sated with having known the limit of possibilities, would ask quietly, "Did you see Danny the night of the party?"
Tortilla Flat
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Apr 1
Dissemble - conceal.
Howard was always amused by her inability to dissemble her dislike.
The Casual Vacancy
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Pedagogic - related to teaching.
“Casual vacancy,” repeated Howard. “What you call it when a council seat becomes vacant through death. Proper term,” he said pedagogically.
The Casual Vacancy
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Rife with - full of.
“Settle down!” shouted the headmistress, and a precarious quiet, rife with fidgeting and whispers, spread over the hall again.
The Casual Vacancy
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Imitable - capable of being copied or imitated.
Very tall, he had a high, balding forehead, and an immensely imitable walk, his arms held rigid by his side, bobbing up and down more than was necessary for forward locomotion.
The Casual Vacancy
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Mar 31
nobody coming to save you also implies
no one is coming to stop you
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Dichotomized – to divide something into two distinct parts.
The more spirited the expression, the more sharply will things be dichotomized into the “good” and the “bad.”
Language in Thought and Action
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Wherefore - for which reason.
Wherefore the friends, in despair, organized a group, formed for and dedicated to her destruction.
Tortilla Flat
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As against - in comparison to.
The citzen is privilegd as against the foreigner.
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Of one's own accord - voluntarily
No one forced him to eat the entirety of the birthday cake. He did so of his own accord.
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Penchant - a strong liking or inclination for something.
This penchant to divide the world into two opposing forces – "right" versus "wrong," "good" versus "evil" – and to ignore or deny the existence of any middle ground, may be termed the two valued orientation.
Language in Thought and Action
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