With exams approaching, it is high time to revise all the material and pay particular heed to the vocabulary. People say: "Learn how to learn," - I totally agree with this statement. Actually, I use vocabulary.com as we all now about the convenience of this on-line sourse.
The best way (in my modest opinion:)) to enrich your vocabulary effectively is to learn each and every single word in the appropriate context. In such a way, you, literally speaking, are killing two birds: you know the meaning of the word and you will use it with confidence as you can extract the peculiarities of its usage from your own sentence.
In addition, I often assign different categories to certain words. For example: 1st group: geometry, rectangle, angle, exponent - Math; its subgroups: odd, integer - numbers; decimal, vulgar - fractions.
One more, you can form these groups according to the semantic сriterion: fade away, diffuse, spread; converse, talk, confer, speak, discuss, dispute - synonyms. Importang thing here is to discern the slight differences and shades of meaning. Well, your words can fall in certain groups according to the style/register. Good idea, huh?
In addition, I often assign different categories to certain words. For example: 1st group: geometry, rectangle, angle, exponent - Math; its subgroups: odd, integer - numbers; decimal, vulgar - fractions.
One more, you can form these groups according to the semantic сriterion: fade away, diffuse, spread; converse, talk, confer, speak, discuss, dispute - synonyms. Importang thing here is to discern the slight differences and shades of meaning. Well, your words can fall in certain groups according to the style/register. Good idea, huh?
I am currently working on the "Porter 7-11 list" (for obvious reasons:) which contains 329 words.
Many of them are familiar to me and I can even say that they are an integral part of my active vocabulary. That is why, I am doing my best to improve my pronunciation and spelling (using "spelling bee"). If this or that word is hard to remember, I make up a simple sentence or devise a curious connotation :)
Many of them are familiar to me and I can even say that they are an integral part of my active vocabulary. That is why, I am doing my best to improve my pronunciation and spelling (using "spelling bee"). If this or that word is hard to remember, I make up a simple sentence or devise a curious connotation :)
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