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The Beyond-the-GRE Word Quiz, plus the 327 words on my to-learn list.

My PsychologyToday.com article today is the third in a four-part series aimed at helping professionals take their vocabulary to the highest level you’ll need in the real world.
 
I present 21 words in a sentence.  Your job is to decide whether it’s being used correctly. Simply decide; true or false.

After I provide the answers, I've appended the definitions of the 327 words I identified in doing the research for this series. They are the words I had heard of or read but didn’t know their meaning. There are worse uses of your time than to learn ten a night, perhaps just an activity to do during the commercials on TV.

The Meaning Behind the Meaning: A short-short story about lexical love

This is the second in a three-part series. It's for professionals who'd like to improve their vocabulary. The words are particularly helpful to people in the helping professions. This installment uses the short-short story format to avoid the how-to article’s aridity.

This installment uses the short-short story format to avoid the how-to article’s aridity.

Will Humans Be Necessary: Abridged and updated version

A while back, I wrote a long article, Will Humans Be Necessary?

As my PsychologyToday.com article today, I offer a column-length and updated version.

Should You Change Careers or Merely Pivot?

As my PsychologyToday.com article today, I've posted an edited transcript of my exchange with a caller to my radio program today. It offers thoughts for anyone thinking they want to dramatically change their life.

Inducing the Swoon: How an average person can land an above-average job.

In a rational world, the average person wouldn’t get hired for an above-average job. After all, the internet enables the employer to expose an opening to millions of job seekers, get dozens if not hundreds of applicants, and applicant tracking software and job-simulation testing enable employers to select the best candidate. That’s rarely an average person.

Yet average people get hired every day. How? Because the employer doesn’t care enough to do a thorough search or has irrationally become fond enough of a person to forgo a more rational hiring process.

My PsychologyToday.com article today shares tips for how to induce the swoon.

The Making of a Mass School Shooter: A short-short story

Why do most of the mass school shooters seem cut from a similar mold? In my PsychologyToday.com article today, I forward one hypothesis.

Answering Job Ads: An underrated tool if done right.

Job seekers are told to emphasize networking over answering ads. But done right, answering ads can often pay off. My PsychologyToday.com article today explains why and how.

How it Might All Play Out: Jobs likely to survive even in a highly automated world.

My PsychologyToday.com article today describes jobs likely to survive even in a highly automated world.

46 Uncommon But Useful Words

As my PsychologyToday.com contribution today, I define 46 uncommon but useful words.

About to Get Fired

As my PsychologyToday.com contribution today, I offer an edited transcript of the exchange between me and a caller to my radio program who is about to get fired.