Advanced Vocabulary Words: Emit to Fanatic
Ten words that happen to sit next to each other in a dictionary usually have nothing to do with each other. This stretch is an exception. Four of them are built from the same Latin prefix, and once you watch that prefix do its work, those four stop being four separate things to memorize. The […]
Advanced Vocabulary Words: Deplore to Embonpoint
Some vocabulary lists contain words you will write next week and words you will only ever read. This set has both, and treating them the same way wastes your time. Diverse and edible are working words. Dulcet, eldritch, and embonpoint are recognition words: you need to know them when they appear on a page, and […]
