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 \nA Quick and Easy Method  \nby John LaCarna  \nTo Gussie  \nCONTENTS  \nPreface  \nThe Technique of Mnemonic Vocabulary Building How To Use This Book  \nThe Mnemonic Vocabulary  \nList of Words Treated in This Book  \nAppendix: Suggested Projects for the Researcher References  \nAbout the Author  \nPREFACE  \nThis book will enable you to increase your English vocabulary as quickly and easily as possible. The immediate focus is on expanding your recognition vocabulary--the words you are able to understand. You will learn and retain forever the meanings of words you are most likely to encounter in your reading, and on various psychological, academic, and professional tests. The method presented here is starkly goal-oriented --you might say ruthlessly so. The aim is that after applying yourself to this book, you will be able to supply a synonymous definition for up to 1413 words you did not know before. We are not concerned with learning derivations or word roots. These matters may be interesting and important but they are irrelevant to the business at hand.  \nOur purpose right now is to get a higher score on that SAT or GRE next week, or to gain a deeper understanding of those novels and non-fiction books you read throughout this year and every year from now on. The words you will learn are derived from lists of study words for academic tests and are judged to have the widest general use.  \nAnother phase of vocabulary development involves the active vocabulary -- words you use in your own speech and writing. We don't provide a quick method to improve that --we don't know of any--but we can point you to a couple of easy ways.  \nYou will find that as you use this book and recognition vocabulary grows, words that you previously skimmed over in your reading will stand out. When you encounter them, you will automatically take note of the new words you have learned. In this way, over time, you will get a feel for proper usage, for the nuances of denotative and connotative meaning. Then these words will naturally pass into your active vocabulary as they did when you were a child originally acquiring language. This process might be accelerated by using one of the books available at book stores and in libraries, designed to enable their readers to use the words they present.  \nWe strongly recommend against using words before you assimilate their precise meanings. If this is done in an attempt to impress others, it may well have the opposite effect, for there's no more pathetic sign of a poorly educated person than the inappropriate use of a five-buck word. Make sure that you really know words before you use them.  \nTHE TECHNIQUE OF MNEMONIC VOCABULARY BUILDING  \nThe word \"mnemonic\" refers to a device that assists in the acquisition and retention of matter tobe memorized. In this book, we will use such a device to expand your vocabulary. We will teach you new words by artificially associating each one to its definition, using what we call a \"key\"and a \"link sentence\" .  \nResearch has established this method to be effective for learning both English and foreign language vocabulary words. To illustrate the method, let's take the word mnemonic itself. How would we associate it with its meaning? Well, mnemonic sounds somewhat like pneumonia, so suppose we use that as the key. So now mnemonic calls up pneumonia in our minds, but how does this remind us of memory systems? What would a good link sentence be? Well, suppose we think of our grandfather having a bout of pneumonia so severe he loses his memory of who we are.  \nSo, the next time we see the word mnemonic we will think of pneumonia. We ask ourselves, \"What about pneumonia?\", and we answer, \"Grandpa had pneumonia so bad he lost his memory. Oh that's it! Mnemonic has to do with memory systems.\" In the format of Build Your Vocabulary Skills, we have:  \nMNEMONIC (neh MAHN ik) related to a memory system  \nKEY: PNEUMONIA  \nLINK SENTENCE: Grandpa had pneumonia so bad he los","cbCaidGsndj225XB","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidGsndj225XB","pdf",855215,209,"English","# Preface\n## The Technique of Mnemonic Vocabulary Building\n## How To Use This Book\n## The Mnemonic Vocabulary\n## List of Words Treated in This Book\n## Appendix: Suggested Projects for the Researcher\n## References\n## About the Author","[{\"question\":\"What does the book focus on when building vocabulary quickly?\",\"answer\":\"It focuses on expanding recognition vocabulary—the words readers can understand—so meanings are learned and retained for future reading and tests.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the mnemonic technique work in this book?\",\"answer\":\"Each word is taught by artificially associating it to its definition using a “key” and a “link sentence,” then drilling the word, key, link sentence, and meaning without looking.\"},{\"question\":\"Does the book teach word roots or derivations?\",\"answer\":\"No. It states that learning derivations or word roots may be interesting, but they are irrelevant to the primary goal of rapidly mastering meanings.\"}]","Build Your Vocabulary Skills - A Quick and Easy Method | PDF",1790585043,527]