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It is bountifully tested and proven that when you use a word which is unknown to your reader or listener or for which he has a misdefinition, anything that is said or written following that word will be, at best, blank. Therefore, one should define or persuade definition be done. It would be a mistake not to say what one is trying to say. The skill involved is stating what one means to state in the way one wants to state it and yet be certain that it is smoothly understood.
Thought is complex, but language is rich and in itself carries the largest burden of culture and enlightenment in any high-level civilization. It is there for use, not abandonment. The task is to reconcile the use with the potential comprehension. It can be done.
It is not enough to guess at definitions, for this too has the recoil of uncertainty. It is well worth mining in dictionaries and classics for their exact and sometimes numerous definitions. Words are not just a dry academic subject. They carry the tide of progressing civilization. They are for use in your livingness. They capsule the knowledge and content of the world.
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