How to improve your vocabulary
Every exam from CAT to CET contains vocab. Every exam including The Common Admission Test (CAT 2016) measures verbal & logical reasoning, critical thinking & quantitative aptitude and Data intrepretation skills. Verbal ability section contains questions based on Reading Comprehension passages, Paragraph Completion, Sentence Correction, Vocabulary Usage and Para Jumbles, you will come across many difficult words. The single most effective way to improve your verbal score on the English section is to improve your vocabulary. Therefore, a Good Vocabulary is vital for a high score and a MUST for the CAT other exams. Learning vocab can, however, be tricky. If we don’t know the best way to retain new words, we can forget what we’ve learned. In this article ,i have described some of the quickest, most intelligent way to improve vocabulary i.e learning roots and usauage of mnemonics. 1. Learning through roots ie breakup of words Don’t just memorize. Achieve mastery. Ditch the flash cards and stop memorizing definitions. A smart way to build vocab is to learn how to use roots effectively. Much of the English language comes from Latin, with a huge chunk from languages, like French and Spanish, which derive from Latin roots. If you know these Latin roots, you can get a huge leg up piecing together the meaning of a word even if you’ve never seen it before. Example: Think of the words translation, transition, transformation, and transportation.They all start with ‘trans’. So if you know the meaning of these words, you can tell that ‘trans’ must have something to do with changing from one thing or place to another. Then if you get an unfamiliar word, like transubstantiation, you’ve got at least a hint about what it might mean. art (skill) is the root of artistic auto (self) is the root word of automatic. Given below is a list of commonly used root words, their meanings and some examples of words formed using these root words. ROOT MEANING EXAMPLE WORDS Ambi Both Ambidextrous – Use both hands well Ambiguity – Double meaning, can be interpreted in more than one way Aqua Water Aquarium – Artificial environment for water plants and animals Aquatic – Plant or animal living in water Cardio Heart Cardiology – Branch of medicine dealing with the heart Cardiovascular – Pertaining to the heart and blood vessels Cent Hundred Centenary – Hundredth Anniversary Centenarian – Person who is hundred or more years old Grat Pleasing Gratify – Delight or please someone Gratuity – Tip, token of appreciation Tri Three Triangle – Figure with three sides Triathlon – Athletic event having three events It’s worth mentioning that this way of learning will save your time and efforts to a greater extent. Thus,Learning roots is one of the best and fastest ways of enriching vocabulary. How to improve your vocabulary method 1 word breakup How to improve your vocabulary method 2 mnemonics
