Trainers suggest that we should prefer a shorter word for a longer word.
Longer words often happen to be 'derived words'. They give clues of roots and meanings of the words. Shorter words tend to be primary words, and in case they are not popular, we may have to prefer longer words.
The criterion, therefore, is not 'long or short', but popularity.
Proverbs are born from extensive circulation among the people. We can, therefore, deduce that words used in proverbs, are by and large, popular words.
Here is a quiz based on 10-lws, culled from proverbs.
Fill up the blanks, selecting appropriate words from the Choice Box.
SELECTION BOX:
Confession , Experience , Forewarned , Politeness , Prosperity , Repentance , conscience , discretion , everything , flatterers , friendship , impossible , oftentimes , supperless , threatened .
QUESTION BOX: * A broken____ may be soldered, but will never be sound ANSWER .
* A hedge between keeps____ green ANSWER .
* A guilty____ needs no accuser ANSWER .
* An ounce of____ is worth a pound of learning ANSWER .
* Better go to bed____ than rise in debt ANSWER .
* There is a place for everything, and____ in its place ANSWER .
* Nothing is____ to a willing heart ANSWER .
* The best is____ the enemy of the good ANSWER .
