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You're listening to Away with Words to show about language and how we use it. I'm Grant Barrett and I'm Martha Barnett

Grant like you words are the main thing that I do but there are still these words that I have to look up every single time I run across them.

You have that experience, right?

Yeah, because you're not 100% sure.

Yeah, yeah, I'm not sure.

And I think my resolution for this year is that I want to be really mindful of that, really pay attention to those words because I think that's the way I'm going to learn them.

Sort of like I'm trying to teach myself to remember where I left my car keys by I read in a book that you should just tell yourself I'm putting my car keys on the table right so whenever I come across a word like this I'm going to just stop what I'm doing and

tell myself I'm looking up this word and learning it once and for all. And the

latest one that I did was innervate.

Innovate. Why? What was holding you back on on that one well you know what I mean when I

look at the word innervate I think it means something about agitation or

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