Smart Words
Sometimes we feel the urge to express a description, with different — and in most cases more specific — words to speak or write understandable. Whether it is for an interview, for an essay, for a speech, or for the need to have the last word in an argument, a capacious vocabulary is elementary for sounding smart, or more intelligent — perspicacious.
Smart Words is a site intended for all age groups of all regions to stimulate your intellect and to improve your communication skills with advanced vocabulary. It is sorted by categories, like synonyms (or "Words for"), linking and connecting words, smart quotes, etc.
Try to implement these smart words and phrases into everyday conversation and your diction will become more sophisticated, refined, cultured, and most importantly ... smart!
Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words - Ralph Waldo Emerson
For students of the English language, the knowledge of transitions words can be very helpful. Also, and sometimes entertaining, is the comparison of English idioms with those of your native language.
English Language
English is a fascinating language —
today it is the most widely spoken language in the world, with many people learning it as a second language.
English is "the" world language - an estimated 70% of all webpages are in English. But English is also complex and unpredictable. Its massive range and wealth of words make it fascinating and surprisingly complex.
Students and teachers alike are on an entertaining journey to discover the peculiarities, lavishness and charm of the English language.
Among the many topics which one can discover during studying the English language are the form and meaning of words. This page tries to illuminate at least a part of the hidden and sometimes obvious miracles of the English Language.
Nota bene: The word alphabet comes from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, which are denoted alpha & beta.
And every word you tweet ...
Welcome in 20 Languages
Afrikaans | Welkom | Arabic | Ahlan'wa sahla |
Bosnian | Dobrodosli | Chinese (Cantonese) | Foon Ying |
Czech | Vitame Vas | Chinese (Mandarin) | Huaning |
Danish | Velkommen | Dutch | Welkom |
French | Bienvenue | Frisian | Wolkom |
German | Willkommen | Greek | Kalos Orisate |
Hawaiian | Aloha | Hebrew | Shalom |
Italian | Benvenuto | Japanese | Yokoso |
Kroatisch | Dobro dosao | Korean | Hwangyong-Hamnida |
Maltese | Merhba | Mongolian | Tavtai Morilogtun |
Norwegian | Velkommen | Portuguese | Bem-vindo |
Spanish | Bienvenido | Swedish | Halsningar |
Tagalog | Mabuhay | Turkish | Merhaba |
And some remotely related expressions
- Vulcan - Live Long and Prosper
- Land of Jedi - May the Force be with you
- Romans - Ave Imperator, morituri te salutant
- Native Americans - How (háu / howgh)
Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our hotchpotch of impulses, our perpetual miracle - for the soul throws up wonders every second.
Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death; let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says. For nothing matters except life. [Virginia Woolf]
A line is a dot that went for a walk ...
[Paul Klee]
Do not ask your children
to strive for extraordinary lives.
Such striving may seem admirable,
but it is the way of foolishness.
Help them instead to find the wonder
and the marvel of an ordinary life.
Show them the joy of tasting
tomatoes, apples and pears.
Show them how to cry
when pets and people die.
Show them the infinite pleasure
in the touch of a hand.
And make the ordinary come alive for them.
The extraordinary will take care of itself.
William H. H. Martin; The Parent's Tao Te Ching
Must Read Short Stories List
Here is a glittering collection of some of the world's finest short stories.
- 'A Descent into the Maelström' — Edgar Allan Poe
- 'An Uncomfortable Bed' — Guy de Maupassant
- 'Fear' — Guy de Maupassant
- 'Markheim' — Robert Louis Stevenson
- 'Memoirs of a Yellow Dog' — O. Henry
- 'My Favorite Murder' — Ambrose Bierce
- 'Oil of Dog' — Ambrose Bierce
- 'One Thousand Dollars' — O. Henry
- 'Regret' — Kate Chopin
- 'Sredni Vashtar' — Saki
- 'The Belated Russian Passport' — Mark Twain
- 'The Black Cat' — Edgar Allan Poe
- 'The Black Poodle' — F. Anstey
- 'The Changeling' — W. W. Jacobs
- 'The Dead' — James Joyce
- 'The Eyes of the Panther' — Ambrose Bierce
- 'The Fall of the House' of Usher — Edgar Allan Poe
- 'The Fly' — Katherine Mansfield
- 'The Inconsiderate Waiter' — J. M. Barrie
- 'The Mezzotint' — M. R. James
- 'The Model Millionaire' — Oscar Wilde
- 'The Monkey’s Paw' — W. W. Jacobs
- 'The Mortal Immortal' — Mary Shelley
- 'The Necklace' — Guy de Maupassant
- 'The Nose' — Nicolai Gogol
- 'The Oval Portrait' — Edgar Allan Poe
- 'The Phantom Rickshaw' — Rudyard Kipling
- 'The Pit and the Pendulum' — Edgar Allan Poe
- 'The Premature Burial' — Edgar Allan Poe
- 'The Quest' — Saki
- 'The Secret Sharer' — Joseph Conrad
- 'The Sphinx Without a Secret' — Oscar Wilde
- 'The Story of an Hour' — Kate Chopin
- 'The Telltale Heart' — Edgar Allan Poe
- 'The Three Strangers' — Thomas Hardy
- 'The Withered Arm' — Thomas Hardy
- 'Tobermory' — Saki
The humor section has been mirgated to this site www.smart-jokes.org
- "No code" is someone else's code.
- "Cloud" is someone else's server.
- "Artificial Intelligence" (AI) is statistics on steroids.
- "Virtual Reality"(VR) is a fancy way to ignore the actual reality.
- "Big Data" is a lot of data that nobody knows what to do with.
- "Smart Home" is where your fridge knows more about your diet than you do.
- "Internet of Things" (IoT) is making sure even your toaster is hackable.