"No educative process is ever the end; it is always the beginning of more education, more learning, more living."
Dear Students, Today is the times of competition. When it comes to getting a Govt. Job, life turns upside down, there is so much competition in every exam that it is a curse to be mediocre. No ordinary skills can help you in achieving your dream job. You have to create those necessary skills whether it is verbal or Quant skills. Today, In this article we shall discuss the importance of keep learning new Vocabulary words daily through extensive reading. No educative process is ever the end; it is always the beginning of more education, more learning, more living. To stop increasing your vocabulary is to stop your intellectual growth. We all wish to continue growing intellectually as long as we remain alive. And with the momentum that our weeks of hard work have provided, continuing will not be at all difficult. At Adda247, we have already provided tricks to improve vocabulary, today we will discuss a recapitulation of the steps you must take so that your vocabulary will keep growing and growing.
STEP ONE. You must become actively receptive to new words. Words won't come chasing after you. You must train yourself to be on a constant lookout, in your reading and listening, for any words that other people know and you don't. Whenever you read anything, see anything written in the English Language, be active and excited for new and unknown words.
STEP TWO. You must read more. As an adult, you will find most of the sources of your supply of new words in books and magazines. Is your reading today largely restricted to a quick perusal of the daily newspaper? Then you will have to change your habits. If your aim is to have a superior vocabulary, you will have to make the time to read at least one book and several magazines every week. Not just this week and next week-but every week for the rest of your life. We have never met a single person who possessed a rich vocabulary who was not also an omnivorous reader.
STEP THREE. You must learn to add to your own vocabulary the new words you meet in your reading. When you see an unfamiliar word in a book or magazine, do not skip over it impatiently. Instead, pause for a moment and say it over to yourself-get used to its sound and appearance. Then puzzle out its possible meaning in the context of the sentence. Whether you come to the right conclusion or not, whether indeed you are able to come to any intelligent conclusion at all, is of no importance. What is important is that you are, by this process, becoming superconscious of the word. As a result, you will suddenly notice that this very word pops up unexpectedly again and again in all your reading-for you now have a mind-set for it. And of course, after you've seen it a few times, you will know fairly accurately not only what it means but the many ways in which it can be used.
STEP FOUR. You must open your mind to new ideas. Every word you know is the translation of an idea.Think for a few minutes of the areas of human knowledge that may possibly be unknown to you-psychology, semantics, science, art, music, or whatever. Then attack one of these areas methodically-by reading books in the field. In every field, from the simplest to the most abstruse, there are several books written for the average, untrained lay reader that will give you both a good grasp of the subject and at the same time add immeasurably to your vocabulary. College students have large vocabularies because they are required to expose themselves constantly to new areas of learning. You must do the same.
STEP FIVE. You must set a goal. If you do nothing about your vocabulary, you will learn, at most, twenty-five to fifty new words in the next twelve months. By conscious effort you can learn several thousand. Set yourself a goal of finding several new words every day. This may sound ambitious-but you will discover as soon as you start actively looking for new words in your reading, and actively doing reading of a more challenging type, that new words are all around you-that is, if you're ready for them. And understand this: vocabulary building snowballs. The results of each new day's search will be greater and greater once you provide the necessary initial push, once you gain momentum, once you become addicted to looking for, finding, and taking possession of new words. And this is one addiction well worth cultivating!
Dear friends, So many vocab related questions are asked in various competitive exams in the form of Antonyms, Synonyms, Fill in the blanks, Cloze tests and Reading Comprehensions. There is no escaping from this. You have to create this skill for the competitive exams, for life. At Adda247, we keep providing to tricks and strategies for all types of topics of Competitive exams. Keep reading With Adda247. We wish you all the best. Happy Reading!!.
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