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Welcome to What's That Word, Please?

This blog is a collection of words (arranged alphabetically) to help stroke patients to re-learn what they have forgotten or missed, and will help them to obtain normal speech and word-recognition once more. It will also be useful for you if you are a Scrabble fan since childhood or since your first English class. For students who will be taking the Graduate Record Exams (GRE) in the US as a prerequisite for entering graduate school, this is only the beginning if you are targeting the minimum 500 mark (US graduate school requires >500). For wannabe authors (science, history or fiction), you have to start somewhere by listening, understanding and experimenting with words. Some may say 'kacanglah' (peanuts) and some may even say 'kacang putih' (analogy of the white peas which the Indian man sold at schools and parks in Tanjung Aru, Sabah in the late 1960s and early 1970s). But if you have 2+1 languages in your hands and you are trying to add another 2+1 languages, it pays to list all the words that you have heard, know or can think of and play around with them. As you age, you will find that you lose some words with the strands of white hair (which can be emotionally disturbing for some) or on the way to dementia til you hit Alzheimer's stage, you can't even say your own name unless you retain your gray matter the amount it was when you were 25-35 and life was so sweet and of course at its very best (a natural bliss). Anyway, have fun learning, try to learn some 5-10 words a day even though you don't have to use them in your daily cakap-cakap pasar. Just in case and who knows, someone may just depend on your words and you lost 50% of your vocab from the ageing process (unless it was storke), you can refer them to this blog. This blog is for beginners ages 12 and above. There are milestones in vocabulary but that is not what I'm after. The dictionary is worth using to cross reference and double check spellings and meanings. Please be reminded spellings will vary between American, British, Malay and SMS words. Most importantly, enjoy! That's what life is about!