Tag: vocabulary

I'm ignorant about many things, but I hide it well by talking more and louder.   But one thing even that can't hide is my lack of vocabulary.

As I've written before, the so-called advice I received to overcome this challenge in high school, like don't bother reading ("look up every word you don't know in

The happiest moment of my life was when I got a 600 on SAT verbal.  You may say it doesn't take much to make me happy, but you'd be missing my point.  The statement is a reflection on my life-long struggle to achieve competence in verbalism, be it in English or Japanese.

I somehow managed to