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There is no context in which "Can't easy to forget" is a grammatical or understandable sentence.

As has previously been suggested, forget "winnow [out]". I wasn't even sure what it meant although I worked it out from the context. I would say "We shortlisted six and [eventually] hired four of them".
 
Or 'We whittled the shortlist down to six'.
 
Since I learn all of the new words from my everyday's email.

Your email may include words that are in a dictionary but are not greatly used. Winnow seems to be more BrE than AmE, but isn't widely used in either.
 
emsr2d2,
I'm trying to learn [STRIKE]a[/STRIKE] (no article needed here) new vocabulary [STRIKE]and[/STRIKE] so I [STRIKE]made[/STRIKE] wrote a sentence and posted it here for checking. [STRIKE]Since[/STRIKE] I learn all of the new words from [STRIKE]my everyday's[/STRIKE] an email I receive every day.

Does your daily email give you an example sentence for each word?
 
Perhaps weed out is more common. I'm not entirely sure.
 
"Weed out" usually has negative connotations. It implies that something bad is removed from a group.
 
I doubt if I have ever used the word in my entire life.

Ooh, come on- you must have used it once as you were alive when David Copperfield hit the road. I saw you on the road when it was published in instalments, the mud toll road the coach could barely get down in the rain. ;-)
 
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