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" Dear E. Jean: I&amp;#039;m 24 and would love to build my vocabulary and learn all that &amp;quot;grammar stuff&amp;quot; I should have soaked up in middle school. How can I be sharper?\u2014Needin&amp;#039; More Learnin&amp;#039; Learnin&amp;#039;, my luv: In the spirit of the tiny geniuses\u2014Anne, Emily, and Charlotte\u2014who knew so many words that their heads weighed more than their bodies...do crosswords, throw black-tie Scrabble parties, read Jane Eyre, get Urban Dictionary&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Word of the Day&amp;quot; by e-mail, listen to Wuthering Heights on your iPod, write new words with your refrigerator magnets, and keep a word diary to record what happens when you employ your new vocab. For example, &amp;quot;&amp;#039;Oh, Muffy,&amp;#039; I said over cocktails, &amp;#039;your aphotic fimbriated skirt looks so recusant!&amp;#039; whereupon Muffy snorted precisionistically, discharging her margarita through her proboscis.&amp;quot; But the easiest way to explode your vocabulary (instantly!) is to fill your rice bowl on quiz site Freerice.com. For each word you define correctly, 20 grains of rice are donated, via the United Nations, to help feed the world&amp;#039;s hungry. By God, you&amp;#039;ll know so many words after 10 minutes, you&amp;#039;ll have to let your brain out a notch. (And your heart, too. You are, after all, filling empty stomachs.) Related: Ask E. Jean: How To Ditch A Couch-Crashing Sister-In-Law Related: Ask E. Jean: Would This Problem Kill Marie Antoinette? Related: Ask E. Jean: Would This Inflame Joan of Arc? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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