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The goal should be to give you words you can use; to enrich your understanding of words you already know; or at least to use words to tell you something neat about the world.\n\nInstead, what you usually get is words that will never be used in conversation, held up as curios. Some examples from Dictionary.com’s daily email: thewless, balladmonger, vagility, contextomy. These words are... not useful.\n\nI’ve always thought I could do better. 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I have spent quite a while scrolling the page and internally going \"yes! this guy gets it!\" after reading a particularly good line. If you want feedback,…",{"value":69,"source":62,"evidence":70},"Recommended as a source of usable words",[71],{"id":72,"by":73,"text":74},"44656290","robertlutece","I've had Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day [1] feed on my RSS reader for a while and I think these are quite usable. [1] https:\u002F\u002Fwww.merriam-webster.com\u002Fword-of-the-day\u002Fcalendar",[76],{"value":77,"source":62,"evidence":78},"Some commenters found the words too basic for well-read readers",[79,83],{"id":80,"by":81,"text":82},"44649234","Y_Y","No cap, but the first ten-ish were already well known to me. Might be worth mentioning you're pitching below not-particularly-well-read this guy.",{"id":84,"by":85,"text":86},"44667482","dankwizard","yes i too am really smart like this guy and this website is WAY below my reading level. 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