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How to Use a Dictionary

Dictionaries are overflowing with interesting information! Here's how to get the most out of your dictionary.


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How to Use a Dictionary

 

The best way to find information in the dictionary

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The History of 'Cynic'

 

How an ancient philosophical movement devoted to the pursuit of virtue came to describe eye-rolling criticism.

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'One in the same' or 'One and the same'?

 

Is it all the same anyway?

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Drive Safe: In Praise of Flat Adverbs

 

You don't have to end all your adverbs in -ly to talk right.

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Our research turned up two archaic literal meanings

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i.e. vs. e.g.

 

Often used, often confused. Here's some guidance and insight.

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Pictures in the Dictionary

 

The story of those iconic illustrations.