How to Keep Building Your Vocabulary
No educative process is ever the end. It is always die beginning of more education and more learning. The following are the ways that can help to keep your vocabulary growing and growing.
Read more. As an adult, you will find most of the sources of your supply of new words in books and magazines. If your aim is to have a superior vocabulary, you will have to make the time to read at least om book and several magazines eveiy week Not just tins week and next week-but every week.
Guess the meaning of a new word in the context. When you meet with an unfamiliar word, do not skip over it impatiently. Then work out its possible meaning in the context of the sentence. Whether you come to the right conclusion or not will make a difference because you are, in this process, becoming more clearly aware of the word. As a result, you will suddenly notice that this very word pops up unexpectedly again and again in all your reading. And of course after you've seen it a few times, you will know fairly well not only what it means but the many ways it can be used.
Think of the areas that may possibly be unknown to you - psychology, science, art, music or whatever. Then explore them by reading books in the fields. In every field, there are books written for average, untrained readers that will give you both a good knowledge and at the same time add dramatically to your vocabulary.
Set yourself a soal. If you do nothing about your vocabulary, you will learn, at most, twenty-five to fifty words in a year. This may sound ambitious-but you will discover vocabulary snowbalk as soon as you start actively looking for new words.
A. Get prepared in advance.
B. Open you mind to new fields.
C. And so it is with vocabulary building.
D. You must be willing to learn new words.
E. I have never seen a single person with a rich vocabulary who is not a book addict.
F. Instead, stop for a moment and read it aloudget used to its sound and appearance.
G. However, with a clear goal, you can leam several thousand in the same period of time.
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