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How to improve
your vocabulary
Following are a few methods for expanding your vocabulary with words you will
feel comfortable using. Try one or more of these at your convenience. The ones
that seem most appealing will probably work best for you.
1. Make a list of subjects that fascinate you most. The more you enjoy a
topic, the easier to learn about it. Now go to your local library and search for
a dictionary of words specific to one of these topics. If you like Baseball you
may find a dictionary of baseball words for example. Not every topic will have
its own dictionary of relevant words but you’ll be surprised how many do. Once
you have found a dictionary for one of your favorite topics, thumb through it
looking for words that you have never heard or words you have heard that you
don’t know the meanings of. The sheer joy of having found the words and their
meanings will help them sink into your memory. Since they relate to a favorite
topic, you will likely practice and use them regularly with all the commitment
needed to make them a part of regular conversation.
2. In different parts of the country people favor different words. Try
picking up or subscribing to a newspaper from another part of the country. Or
enlist a friend or relative from another area to join in on vocabulary
improvement and offer to send them a copy of your heaviest big city newspaper in
exchange for yours. Or go online and read such a newspaper on line for free.
3. To make learning easier and more productive, use flash cards in a new and
more effective way to master several words at once. Instead of putting separate
words on separate cards with separate meanings. Pick four words that all have
the same or similar meanings and write them on one side with their meanings
clearly identified on the other. Since you will be learning the same or very
closely related word meanings for four words, you will be learning four words
and one definition with slightly subtle changes. This brings it all together as
one task in which you learn 4 times as much in about the same time.
4. Object words are easier because your are learning the definition of a word
which is also a tangible item that you can picture in your mind. Go to a unique
curio shop, specialty store or science or other obscure type of museum you have
never been too before. Keep any brochures or other documentation that describes
what you are seeing. Let the mental pictures drive the names of these items and
their descriptions deep into your mind for recall later.
5. You learn much more by being humble than by being proud. Just as when
driving you should be willing to stop and ask for directions, you shouldn’t be
afraid to do some digging when there’s a word you don’t understand. Look it
up or even have the courage to ask. Go on a word hunt. Write down what you
didn’t understand and quickly. Hound that word and its meaning with your own
research until you find it. The satisfaction of victory over your ignorance of
that one word will bolster your confidence that you can learn many other words
if you want to badly enough.
Written by David Geer
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