10 efficient ways to enrich your vocabulary

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Getting rich is always adorable. Being rich in your speech is to enrich your vocabulary.

Enriching vocabulary to enrich life
Enrich your vocabulary to enrich life

The world you are in today is a world of communications. The better you communicate, the greater are the chances of your success in building your career, the empire of your Business, skills of Management, a good rapport in social relationships or in whatever field you need to communicate.

Contents

  • 1-Be a Reader
  • 2-Be a Learner
  • 3-Be a Conversant
  • 4-Be a writer
  • 5-Record your own Works
  • 6-Be a lover of Lexical meanings
  • 7-Be a Linguistic Observer
  • 8- Be a player of Word Games
  • 9- Be a Subscriber
  • 10- Be a user of mnemonics
Be a reader
Be a reader to enrich your vocabulary.

Reading feeds the body, mind and soul with eternal youthfulness.

1-Be a Reader to enrich your vocabulary

  • Reading builds a vast and strong vocabulary.
  • It helps build an ability to perceive unknown themes.
  • It enriches your ability to grasp the meaning faster.
  • It enhances your speed and efficiency of reading.
  • It would enrich your vocabularies manifold.
  • Reading e-books has become easy to access in this modern age.
  • Reading short stories, novels, magazines, articles from journals, newspapers or blogs, literary works of great people would help you build a regular readership.

Readership is the foundation stone on which all the pillars of building a vast and great vocabulary would be laid upon.

Be a learner
Be a learner to enrich your vocabulary.

2-Be a Learner to enrich your vocabulary

  • Choose 20 verbs daily from a dictionary with their meanings.
  • Try to make one sentence on each.
  • Guess the adverbs/adjectives and nouns that these verbs are linked to.
  • You would be amazes to discover that you have learnt 100 words this way every single day form these 20 verbs.
  • Don’t try to memorize them, rather enjoy being conversant with them.
  • It would enrich your vocabularies multiple times.

Learning a few words a day can build a large base of vocabulary in just a couple of years. This habit will not only enable your ability to use words properly, but will also help you use them in different contexts.

Conversations need enrichment of vocabulary.

3-Be a Conversant to enrich your vocabulary

  • Converse on topics of your interest.
  • Watch English news channels for an hour and at least one movie a day from English movie channels to build up your ability to hear and comprehend.
  • Start talking to your friends or colleagues on any burning topic of the week every day.
  • If you come across an interesting word in your reading or hearing, make a point of using it in your conversation.
  • Read one Editorial column of any English Newspaper at least once a week and discuss on it with one of your best friends.
  • The words you don’t use over a year are lost for ever. So be a good conversant.

Involving in conversations, watching English news bulletin regularly or listening to or hearing from your relatives, friends, colleagues and acquaintances is yet another great way to help you enrich your vocabulary. The more words you know, the more you would be able to converse and the more you would be able to comprehend things you hear and read.

Be a writer
Be a writer that needs enriching your vocabulary.

4-Be a writer to enrich your vocabulary

  • It would be better if you try to write a paragraph of 15 lines daily on any topic you find interest in.
  • Write something new on a theme of your interest once a week, even if it is a small paragraph or an essay of only 300 words.
  • Continuing a habit of writing for about a year or two will fetch you a great confidence within and a platform to use the words you have learnt recently.

Writing needs a long, continuous and consistent effort and a not-so-small vocabulary to succeed in it.

5-Record your own Works

  • Maintain a diary of your written works every day.
  • Sort the words you have mastered in an alphabetical order.
  • Rearrange the words gathered over a month once again, to get your desired effect.

Writing the words with meanings alphabetically would be of great help and assistance and easy to access..

6-Be a lover of Lexical meanings

  • Keep a few large dictionaries on your book shelf like The Oxford dictionary or Thesaurus or one lovely collection like the Encyclopedia Britannica.
  • Download apps like WORDWEB, or different dictionary Apps on your mobile phone or PC.
  • A full dictionary definition can also educate you about antonyms, root words, and related words, which is another way to learn vocabulary.
  • Have a habit to collect synonyms and antonyms of any word that comes your way.

Getting into a habit of playing with words will make you a giant learner and a person of a vast vocabulary.

7-Be a Linguistic Observer

  • Try to learn the use of prefixes like an-, am-, con-,dis-,en-,in-,out-, un- etc. which are linked to thousands of verbs.
  • Learn the root words.
  • Learn the meaning of prefixes that bring the antonyms and those which bring about the synonyms.

One of the easiest ways of enriching your vocabulary is to learn the root words and this way of learning will save your time and efforts to a greater extent.

play word games
Play word games to enrich your vocabulary
8- Be a player of Word Games
  • Complete a word puzzle (Crossword puzzles) once a day.
  • Read the previous day’s answers to the puzzles, you could not answer.
  • Keep a list of the different words you learned while playing the game, and then study that list from time to time.
  • A quick way to build a large vocabulary is to study a number of words via flashcards.
  • Play a word game whenever you find a leisure hour.

There are a lot of Word games or Word Puzzles available in different magazines, Newspapers and are also available at the internet that can enrich the process of your vocabulary building. In addition to improving your vocabulary, it will make your effort full of fun in finding many new words faster and easier.

9- Be a Subscriber to enrich your vocabulary
  • Subscribe to “word of the day” feeds.
  • Some web platforms provide with a word a day—either on a website, an app, or via email—to help you expand your vocabulary.
  • You can add these words to running word lists.

You can always go for more words, but it may be somehow difficult to assimilate dozens of English words every single day.

Use mnemonics to enrich your vocabulary.

10- Be a user of mnemonics

  • Mnemonic devices are tools and techniques you can use to help boost your ability to remember, retain, or retrieve information quickly.
  • This memory technique allows your brain to encode important information in a unique way that helps you learn it.
  • A mnemonic device is a form of word association that helps you remember definitions of words and their proper usage.
  • A very difficult to remember word like Lieutenant can be chunked as follows : Lie-u-ten-ant which can be picturized as lie – u(you) – ten (10) – ant(s) and you can easily remember it.
  • When you learned how to spell Mississippi, you probably learned it in chunks and recited it with a sort of rhythm: M-i-s-s-I-s-s-I-p-p-I.

To Sum up

You can use the very skills to improve your English vocabulary as you did while as a beginner you started learning your first language: reading, listening, writing, watching, and conversing. Be the best writer in the office. Reading is a wonderful way to learn new words, listening helps you develop the skill of conversing in addition to the enrichment of your vocabulary.

In today’s world of communications you need to better your communication which solely depends on how well you interact in your speech, in your writing , the chances are greater for the success in building up your career, or a good rapport in social relationships or in whatever field you need to communicate, if you possess a rich vocabulary at your command. So follow the above techniques to garner the success you dream to achieve in a not so far future.

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