Does anybody remember those paperback vocabulary books you had in middle school? I actually found a picture of the books I remember on eBay! Did you use these?

I can remember having weekly assignments and subsequent quizzes on twenty newly introduced vocabulary words that we were taught to learn and memorize every week for at least three years of middle school.

My memories of those days and books are not fond ones. I think I hated those books. Now as a regular writer, blogger, poet, my opinion on these exercises has changed.

While no one enjoys such a dull and, at times, challenging task such as this being forced on them, this concept has many valuable benefits. Among them include expanding your understanding to be able to read at higher levels with more concepts to learn, this alone one would surmise would lead to more opportunities for future personal growth.

In an attempt to make my former language arts teachers proud, I want to commit to publishing somewhere between ten and fifteen poems using a recent “Word of the Day” from Dictionary.com’s App. This exercise should help me (and maybe you, my readers) learn some new words and help expand our minds to grow personally.

For past posts utilizing these words of the day search in my tags for “WordoftheDay” or “WOTD.”

Moving forward, I will be utilizing those tags on these posts and I will try to post a poem such as these every other day, and if time allows, I will try to include a definition of the word at the bottom of the post.

For fun, too, if you are inspired to write something new with the Word of the Day, feel free to link your posts to mine in the comments so we can both learn from each other.

– Jason