Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using.
Keep my word' is such a strange expression. At first glance, it just means 'Be true to what you agreed on. But it could also mean, 'Hold your words back.' Keep them in. Let your actions speak instead.
A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.
I like to think that I know a lot of words, but I definitely don't know all of them.
When we first hear [a] word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.
I actually tried to learn the dictionary at one point. It didn't work; I only got through the first few pages.
We are so used to releasing words. We don't know what to do with them if they stay.
We are so used to releasing words, we don't know what to do with them if they stay. No matter how many times we let them go, they come back. The words that matter always stay.
