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How to enlarge one's Vocabulary

It is easy to say, 'Enlarge your vocabulary, first that you may enter upon the privileges of a cultivated women: and secondly, that you may be able to tell the truth easily and accurately'. But it is another and more difficult matter to prescribe the means by which this is to be done.

Every girl must, to a large degree, work out her own method. The reading of the best books and conversation with cultivated fold both which help to the free use of words. The dictionary is the best friend for your task. Never allow a strange word to pass unchallenged.



Usually, it is wise to look it up at the moment. If that is impossible, it must be written firmly on the memory and traced at the first opportunity. It is good to encourage in yourself the habit of drawdling reaps a harvest.

To earn two new words a day thoroughly to learn them so that their use will not have a foreign accent, is to insure a large vocabulary before you reach middle

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