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Word Stories

In Progress

Hugh’s own writing about words and their stories. Part of Word Study.

  • Good.Words.To.Know

    GOOD.WORDS.TO.KNOW

  • A Pleasure in Words

    A Pleasure in Words Below are questions taken from Mr. Himwich’s vocabulary tests given to juniors over the past semester. See how you would fare. What word has…

  • “Of”

    Of the love of a father for his child

  • Uva Uvam vivendo varia fit (Explained)

    This Latin phrase from Lonesome Dove is neither nonsense nor bad Latin. It means “A grape becomes mottled by being a grape,” with the sense: it is the…