I love learning new words. A good writer will make it clear from context approximately what the word means. That’s how I increase my vocabulary.
I was delighted when Ann leckie wrote her Ancillary series. Many years before I had used that word in a report at work and my boss asked me what it meant. I was surprised he didn’t know because I thought it was a common word, having run across it in my reading.
I love learning new words. A good writer will make it clear from context approximately what the word means. That’s how I increase my vocabulary.
I was delighted when Ann leckie wrote her Ancillary series. Many years before I had used that word in a report at work and my boss asked me what it meant. I was surprised he didn’t know because I thought it was a common word, having run across it in my reading.