skrapnel

After living abroad for years and speaking mostly foreign languages, I’ve forgotten a lot of day-to-day phrases.  Plus because of PR and blogging, my vocabulary has slowly evolved to mostly quick, to-the-point words.  It’s also very tech heavy.  Since I’m trying to get back to more creative writing, I’m working on increasing my vocab by pulling words and phrases from books I’m reading.   None of them are complicated or intellectual, but I seem to take them for granted.

I’m currently rereading one of my favorite books, “The Wanting Seed” by Anthony Burgess.  Here are a few words I’ve encountered that I want to remember to use more:

• to pat s.o. on the back
• to blink
• to grow bored
• to decide
• to blush
• to face s.o. or s.t.
• hammering (pain)
• to push against a crowd
• guilt
• to observe
• to be struck by an idea
• to wash s.t. down