Boysflyingkiteshaulintheirwhitewingedbirds; Youcan'tdothatwaywhenyou'reflyingwords."Carefulwithfire," isgoodadviceweknow, "Carefulwithwords," ; ButGodHimselfcan'tkillthemwhenthey'resaid.

—WILLCARLETON, TheFirstSettler'sStory.

Theterm "vocabulary" , allvocabulariesaregroundedintheeverydaywordsofthelanguage, outofwhichgrowthespecialvocabularies, , butthefactthattheyaresuitedtoauniqueorderofexpressionmarksthemasofspecialvaluetoaparticularcraftorcalling.

Inthisrespectthepublicspeakerdiffersnotatallfromthepoet, thenovelist, thescientist, , wordsofvalueforthepublicpresentationofthought."Astudyofthediscoursesofeffectiveoratorsdisclosesthefactthattheyhaveafondnessforwordssignifyingpower, largeness, speed, action, color, light, , adjectivesusedinfreshrelationswithnouns, andaptepithets, , thenatureofpublicspeechpermitstheuseofmildlyexaggeratedwordswhich, bythetimetheyhavereachedthehearer'sjudgment, willleaveonlyajustimpression."[1]

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Topossessawordinvolvesthreethings: Toknowitsspecialandbroadermeanings, toknowitsrelationtootherwords, , jotitdown, lookitup, , varied, : "Anauthor'svocabularyisoftwokinds, latentanddynamic: latent—thosewordsheunderstands; dynamic—, ." Yourdynamicvocabularyistheoneyoumustespeciallycultivate.

Inhisessayon "ACollegeMagazine" inthevolume, MemoriesandPortraits, , butwordsaretherawmaterialsofstyle, .