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Show Good Words Can Be Useful Tools HE ease with which teen-agers pick up the slang expressions of the day is proof sufficient that learning ne,v words comes naturally. natu-rally. So why not learn good words? What new words, other than slang expressions, have YOU , learned this week? this month? this year? A broad vocabulary is important. impor-tant. The words you learn today could, in a few more years, spell the difference between a top position posi-tion and a mediocre job. They could mean, even now, a real social so-cial handicap. Your vocabulary is stamping. you for better or for worse, for life. The first question is: how can you build a vocabulary? To go to the dictionary and study a page at a time sounds dull and it is. Why not take a subject in which you are enthusiastically interested ' as a starter? Your hobby, for instance, might be chemistry. A whole crop of new words' are being be-ing born daily in this field. Chloromycetin, Chlor-omycetin, the new antibiotic, is one. And what, by the way, is an antibiotic? The definitions of these two words may open up an entirely en-tirely undiscovered field of knowledge knowl-edge to you. In each new definition you may find words you dp not know. Look them up and learn them. Your trips through the dictionary may take you to many interesting fields. i . |