A Dictionary of Useful Phrases

Here is a collection of excellent phrases and word combinations that you can use to add spice to your writings and speech.

Until sleep overtakes us at a stride

Untouched by the ruthless spirit of improvement

Upon the mountain-tops of meditation

Urbanely plastic and versatile

Uttering grandiose puerilities [puerilities = childishness, silly]

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Vain allurements of folly and fashion

Variously ramified and delicately minute channels of expression

Varnished over with a cold repellent cynicism

Vast sweep of mellow distances

Veiled by some equivocation

Vibrant with the surge of human passions

Vicissitudes of wind and weather
[vicissitudes = sudden or unexpected changes]

Vigor and richness of resource

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Prepositional Phrases - Sets of paired adjectives that together add up to more than the sum of their parts.

Significant Phrases - aired nouns, adjectives and adverbs, which together create an impactful and vivid image of the thought you want to convey.

Public Speaking Sample Phrases - huge collection of examples and phrases are designed to make your oral presentations and debates more impactful and clear.

Business Phrases - These phrases will help you say what you mean with emphasis and let you stand out from the usual corporate memo and report.

Conversational Phrases - parts of sentences that you can use as building blocks for larger conversations.

Striking Similes - similes and figures of speech that you can use to make your writing more emphatic and vivid.

Literary Expressions - a vast collection of literary phrases, allusions and similes that you can use to spice up your writing and make it more impactful and noteworthy.