Chapter IX: Words

Need of a Large Vocabulary 236
Dictionary 237
Study of Literature 238
Vulgarisms are not reputable 240
Slang is not reputable 240
Words must be National. Provincialisms 242
Technical and Bookish Words 242
Foreign Words 243
Words in Present Use 244
Words in their Present Meaning 245
Words of Latin and Saxon Origin 245
General and Specific 248
Use Words that suggest most 249
Synecdoche, Metonymy 250
Care in Choice of Specific Words 250
Avoid Hackneyed Phrases 253
"Fine Writing" 253
In Prose avoid Poetical Words 254