bitful

I love words. Words make life sweeter.

I wish I knew every word. Unfortunately, I don't. I am told I do a pretty good job at using an extensive vocabulary for someone whose first language is not English, but I get extremely frustrated whenever I encounter a word I do not know.

So I usually make a note of it, then look it up - but very often forget what it means, unless I use it shortly afterwards. Sadly, with age this happens more and more often.

I recently noticed that I look up on average a word a day. That's when I thought I could put this website to good use and post them here.

A few points:

• some of the words you will see might look very ordinary to you. As I said, keep in mind that English is not my first language. Sometimes these are words I have never heard before, or everyday words I cannot get into my head;
• most of the definitions are taken from the Answers.com website. This is because I find the descriptions concise yet complete. They also have very nice semantic URLs that enable me to write handy scripts to code this section of the website;
• if you access bitful via an RSS feed reader, you will not see the Word of the Day. However, if you are interested, you can subscribe to the Word of the Day feed or bookmark the Word of the Day page;
• contrary to what the timestamp says, I do not get up in the middle of the night to publish. I'm a bit of a cheat: I do it all in advance and make it magically appear when I am in fact (most nights) sleeping.

I hope you enjoy flexing your vocabulary as much as I do.

Read more about Introducing 'Word of the day' at Answers.com

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