Question

If you understand the meanings of many words, you can be said to have a "good vocabulary." Words are the basis of thought. We think with words, we understand words, and we communicate with words.

A large vocabulary is a significant asset. It allows us to use precise words that say exactly what we intend. In addition, we understand more effectively what we hear and read. A large vocabulary also enables us to score well on employment and intelligence tests. Lewis M. Terman, who developed the Stanford-Binet IQ tests, believed that vocabulary is the best single indicator of intelligence.

In the business world, where precise communication is extremely important, surveys show a definite correlation between vocabulary size and job performance. Skilled workers, in the majority of cases, have larger vocabularies than unskilled workers. Supervisors usually know the meanings of more words than the workers they direct, and executives generally have larger vocabularies than employees working for them.  

Having a good vocabulary at our command doesn't necessarily ensure our success in life, but it certainly gives us an advantage. Improving your vocabulary will help you expand your options in an increasingly complex world.  

Vocabulary can be acquired in three ways: accidentally, incidentally, and intentionally. Setting out intentionally to expand your word power is, of course, the most efficient vocabulary-building method.  In addition, with all of the technology and tools at our disposal, such as the Internet, Siri, Wikipedia, Dictionary.com, it is easy to look up and expand our vocabulary daily.

What are some strategies and methods you might use to expand your vocabulary (intentionally)?

Answer 1

Answer:-

By using the following five vocabulary-building strategies :-

1) Read Voraciously

It's undeniable that reading is the best way to get new vocabulary. At the point when you read, you see words being utilized in setting — and that's what makes it significantly more viable than, for example, simply retaining word records.

With setting information encompassing each new word, there's a decent chance you can figure its meaning just by understanding the overall content. Discovering the meaning of words in such a way is the natural way of learning language – and reading gives the best chance to get presented to this natural way of learning.

In case you're not able to induce the meaning of new words when reading, it's probably because there are such a large number of obscure words in the content. In that case, have a go at reading easier materials. The way to great reading is making it a pleasurable activity; so don't be afraid of going over obscure words, however make sure the content is appropriate for your reading level.

2) Use It or Lose It

Try not to settle after you learn another word by reading it or finding it in the dictionary: these are acceptable starts, however it's by utilizing the new words that you genuinely submit them to your drawn out memory.

Be creative and attempt to utilize your recently learned words from multiple points of view as conceivable:

Record them;

Say them aloud;

Create sentences with them, mentally or recorded as a hard copy;

Attempt to utilize them in a conversation;

Examine them with companions.

It's also important to know about your own language style: each time you catch yourself saying normal or vague words, for example, "pleasant", take a stab at thinking of more extravagant and increasingly exact articulations instead.

3) Learn One New Word a Day

On the off chance that you learn only one new word each day, you'll before long notification they add up before long. I like to consider it the "kaizen way of developing your vocabulary" and what makes this strategy stand out is that it very well may be utilized by anyone, regardless of how bustling one's timetable is. Similarly I develop my assortment of favorite statements in baby ventures by getting another famous statement consistently, I also learned to appreciate developing my vocabulary by conceding to learning at least one new word each day.

There are many sites that give free expression of-the-day administrations, conveying them in many formats –, for example, email, RSS channels, podcasts and even instant messages sent to your mobile phone. Here are my favorites:

Merriam-Webster's Online Word of the Day: This is the site that conveys the most helpful expressions of all. It's also the most feature-rich: it gives audio explanation, pronunciation and word history. The administration is available by email, RSS channel, podcast, and SMS;

WordSmart Wordcast: Provides trouble level, far reaching details and audio pronunciation for the word. Much the same as Merriam-Webster's Online, it's available by email, RSS channel, podcast and SMS;

Dictionary Word of the Day: Another fine help, not as complete as Merriam-Webster's or WordSmart, yet at the same time worth looking at.

4) Understand the True Meaning of Words

By profoundly understanding words, you can make your vocabulary develop exponentially. Instead of simply retaining words, attempt to really understand them by taking a gander at their historical background, word roots, prefixes and postfixes. At least half of English words are gotten from Greek and Latin roots, so there are gigantic advantages in being familiar with them.

Just to pick an example, when you understand that the prefix "ortho" means straight or right, you start to discover associations between apparently unrelated words, for example, orthodontist (a specialist who straightens teeth) and orthography (the right, or straight way of composing).

Understanding the rationale behind words always pays off as far as learning and recalling. Think about the examples: "breakfast" meaning "intrude on the night's fast"; or "rainbow" meaning "bow or arcg caused by rain": while these meanings may be trivial to native English speakers, having such bits of knowledge about words, remote or something else, never fails to charm me.

5) Follow a Process

To make vocabulary improvement a permanent habit in your everyday life, you should make it as habitual, automatic and firmly integrated in your daily work process as conceivable – else you won't do it when your days get excessively occupied.

On the off chance that you already adopt an organized work process for your life –, for example, David Allen's Getting Things Done – you're probably familiar with the idea of organizing all information that goes to your life in "containers": virtual inboxes that get processed in a similar way to your email inbox.

In that regard, one particularly valuable idea is the one of maintaining a "Word Inbox". By having a predefined place you use to capture the words you run over, you can process them significantly more effectively. For example, my statement inboxes, which I attempt to discharge once a day, comprise of my assertion of-the-day feed and of notes on my PDA – which I use to capture any new words I find during the day.

Your process can be as basic as you wish – the key is to characterize it beforehand and then follow it. By knowing exactly how and how frequently to process your inbox, you stay on your vocabulary improvement process, in any event, when there are other squeezing matters shouting out for your attention.

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