Asked • 12/30/24

The question is all about vocabulary check

Can you recommend ways to improve my vocabulary?

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Celina F. answered • 02/19/25

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Anita W.

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To ensure vocabulary development and increase one's vocabulary, one must read classics or college-level novels and underline any vocabulary word. Have a college-level dictionary. Make a lit of new words and write down these words, make a list of synonyms, and wte down sentences.
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01/01/25

Anita W.

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Because I did not know American English, for my did not speak English, and she was married to an elderly American soldier, I did know, slang, idiomatic expressions, nor decorous, standard English. I was placed in fundamental classes for "intellectually challenged" elementary students, cast aside as "alien" or "weird" or "a Nazi" and marginalized as "an outsider," even though Mom played the violin, listened to opera, studied art, and cooked delicious cabbage rolls, sauerbraten, potato pancakes with apple sauce, I was placed in the "slow reader" group, but I knew I was slow. This humiliation of "intellectual sub-level assessment forced me to seize my control over reading; I developed my plan. I got resources. What did I do? First, I read any book, genre, topic, and subject matter. The freedom of learning words empowered me. The powerful tool of classificatio0n of synonyms, antnyms was electrifying because I planted myself into another world on another magic mystery tour--a culture-laden realm where no language, idiom, context, and tradition was forbidden, and so I learned how to study vocabulary, research and analyze roots, prefixes, suffixes, and origins of words.
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01/07/25

Basil O. answered • 12/30/24

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