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The Quest for WordS The Wordpandit Way

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The Quest for WordS The Wordpandit Way

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Methods to increase your Vocabulary

1. Contextual

Vocabulary

With Modi and his family, we reach humanity’s nadir: below this point, all is sub-human

2. Word Lists

The key to successful learning is usage of words in everyday life.For example:Conversations,Diary entries.

Rote method: by repeated memorization of words

Deriving meaning from the context/usage of the word

Make your own Flash Cards

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Methods to increase your Vocabulary

Tracing Word Roots/origins

Tracing the word back to its origin

Use books like:Word Power Made Easy

Using MemoryAids

MnemonicAids

Synonym Clusters

Visual Vocab

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Method 1-Cluster Making

MALIGNTraduce

Drag through the mudSlanderDefame

BadmouthAsperse

Calumniate

GARRULOUSloquacious,

windy, verbose,

prolix, blabbermouth,

talkative, voluble

LACONICLean

SuccinctTerse

ConciseSententious

BANALhackneyed,

trite , threadbare,

commonplace, platitudinous,

bromidic, time-worn,

stereotypical

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MALIGNMALIGNANT

MALEVOLENT

MALEFACTOR

MALICIOUSMALEDICTION

MALADROIT

MALADY

MALICE

awkward, clumsy

ADROIT

adept, skillful

Method Two: Using Word Roots

MAL/MALUS: Bad, harsh, wrong; ill; evil; abnormal, defective

1. Slander, defame2. Evil, pernicious

One showing deep hatred One that is cancerous

The utterance of a curse

Wishing to wish evil to others

Evildoer, criminal

The desire to injure another person; active ill-will or hatred. 

A specific kind of ill health, an

ailment, a disease.

Having the nature of or resulting from malice

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Method Three: Mnemonic/Memory Aids

Learning Words through simple associations

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Method Four: Visual Vocab

Relating Words to Pictures

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• Learning Words is not about word lists only• It’s about associations, making contact with

our everyday life and figuring out reasons to learn a particular word

• Nobody learned thousands of words in a single day, so take your time.

In a nutshell

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What We Have in Store for You

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colossal entity where loads of words are added every day. Not only that, we focus on skill building and use of creativity. Join

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