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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Linguistics Studies

formal english

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00I would like to know if the following expression are of an high educated level?02br
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00divulged, candour, dispersed, sordid, confidantes, genteel, jolly, chintzy02br
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00I'm looking forward to improve my english...and memorizing some good vocabularies might really help!02br
00So I thank you very much for any helping answer!0-
  

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0Well, I know and use them all, and I went to college.01i00 Chintzy02i00 is less formal than the others, in my experience.0-
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0><I'm looking forward to improve my 01font01b00E02b02font00nglish and memorizing some good vocabular01font01b00y02b02font00 might really help!><02br
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0 01i00Jolly02i00 is a little old fashioned, rather than belonging to a high register. 0-
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01cite10Forbes12cite11i10Jolly12i10 is a little old fashioned, rather than belonging to a high register.12blockquote
10At 865 appearances per million words in the BNC, I'd say it's till quite common.02br
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0Isn't that 865 per 01i0010002i00 million?02br
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00(Which isn't as much as it sounds. The first two Word files in the first folder on my pc clock up 250,000 words between them.)02br
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00I would say that "jolly" is old-fashioned, in BrE; but fashionably so (e.g. for purposes of mild humour). 02br
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01cite10MrPedantic12cite10Isn't that 865 per 11i1010012i10 million?12blockquote
10Yes, the web interface searches the entire corpus of 100 million words.02br
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00For what it's worth:02br
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00candour, 9102br
00sordid, 19102br
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0"Chintzy" finds its proper place in this poem by John Betjeman:02br
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Hi ,

here are some vocabularies -
Onerous-involving a lot of efforts and difficulty.
Officious-Using ur authority or interfering in a bossy way.
Occult- The word of magic.
Oscillate-Move back and forth at a regular rate.
Ostentatious-Trying to attract attention.

i m also looking forward to improve my English u can also send me some vocab.
in fact if u wil
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