Most of today’s popular methods of building your vocabulary have an explicitly instrumental mind-set, avowing that if you learn lots of new words, you will get something tangible for your trouble. Few people, it seems, are thought to be content with learning new words merely to have something pleasant to think about. Knowing that there’s a word — groak — for staring silently at someone while they eat, perhaps in the hope that they will give you some food, or that the word undisonant denotes the sound that waves make when crashing on the shore will gain you nothing except the joy of knowing it. Is this not enough?
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