▶ tl;dr We all know those words that pop up and we think, “wut.” Whether it’s because a coworker was snooping happened to see your studies over your shoulder, someone makes a fool of you publicly kindly points out the word you just used in conversation isn’t the best way to convey what you mean (alt…

Vocab-focused resources exist? I must be pretty out of it. Wait, you don’t mean a dictionary, do you?

No you can get books that just focus on how to use vocab. I’m out and about now, but later I’ll take a look at what I’ve got.

As @Leebo said. Here’s an example (from a vocab book I used when studying for N1) It takes similar words and explains how they are different (well, here you only have the example sentences; I take more pictures but my phone battery just died on me) [image]

@Leebo @Naphthalene That’s pretty cool - I’ll have to keep an eye out when the time comes for it.

I’m a native English speaker and had to learn this one!

That too! Haha. The legendary yurts and cleats, eh? [image] To the level 9-ers - YURT and CLEAT confusion Requesting Help Hi guys! This is my first ever post. I’ve come across something frustrating I would like to vent to you all. I’ve just leveled up to level 9… Yay!! …

I am not your critic, but you were damned shortchanged in your undergraduate education. You have probably read that writers for bulk t.v. have you ranged with someone 14 years old. No Latin, so filial is on-the-guess, no religious studies (Honor thy father…) so “piety” and its associates are novel…

[image] runninginplace: I am not your critic, but “No offense, but…” doesn’t make what follows magically not offensive. [image] runninginplace: you were damned shortchanged in your undergraduate education My undergraduate degrees were in science and engineering. I don’t recall a cours…

My only memory of 6 years of Latin is “carthago delenda est” [image]

Which translates to: My food is too salty!!! :upside_down_face::turtle: Or at least…I think that is what it was … :thinking:

"whY doES WaNikAni tEaCH sO muCh StrANgE voCaB?1"

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OceanMirage May 18, 2019, 10:55pm 46

That too! Haha. The legendary yurts and cleats, eh?

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