Do you keep a vocabulary list?

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Do you keep a vocabulary list?

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Fairly self-explanatory. When you read, do you have a place to record new words you stumble across? If so, where? Is it physical? Digital? Do you refer to it? Do you ever use words from it? Is it helpful?
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I absolutely do! Most of the time I write them down, but sometimes I store them in my memory bank. The most recent word I learned was petrichor. It's a beautiful word.
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Yes. When i was in grade school I was taught by nuns, and the one who taught reading would give us ten vocabulary words a day. For homework we were to look them up and write the definition and a sentence using the word. Then, on Friday we would have a quiz comprising twenty of the fifty words. Of course we didn't know which would be on the quiz so we'd have to brush up on all of them. Long story short - when I was in seventh grade I scored high school sophmore/seventh month in vocabulary on the Iowa Basics national testing regimen .... so, I conclude ..... it was a good teaching method.

Today I do the same thing. Sometimes I will scan a dictionary for words I don't know or write down words which I run into in my reading that I am unfamiliar with. I make a list and review it from time to time to, test myself. I have found that it was much easier to learn when I was a kid than it is now though *LOL*.
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Post by Iammonia2016 »

Yes i do... keeping a vocabulary is very helpful it helps me to expand on how i speak and which way i speak... Mines is kept in journal i use it on a regular
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I look up new words I stumble across but I don't write out a list or anything
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I DO! And, I love that you asked this. I am a fervent word-of-the-day person. I never actually attempt to use the words in my daily language (defeating the purpose, I know), but if it's a word I like, I write it in a little leather journal that sits on my side table. That is the only thing in this journal...words I want to use in the future :lol2:
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I do not keep a written list. However, there is mental list of words that have stuck with me from vocabulary lessons taught to me in Junior High and High School. I like to refer this when my speaking requires more variety. If I am reading a book and find a new word that I like, I also add it to the same mental list. That's just how my mind is organized I guess.
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I used to! I had several random books, I'd just grab the nearest writing pad and scribble down the words. As time went on, I got more organised and wrote all the words in one book, with meanings, transcriptions and sample sentences. I also tried to employ them in my daily speech....miss those days. Now, though, I just look new words up in the dictionary, conjure up some sentences and continue on my way. I don't know if I'll actually remember them until, perhaps, the need arises.
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A little notebook just for that purpose. :)
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I did when I was in secondary school and the teacher forced us to keep a list.
But I don't really see it helping me. If I don't understand a word, I would write a short passage using it so that my brain gets used to its meaning. But if I just note down the word and its definition on a list, there's no guarantee that I learnt the word. There's not much difference between checking the vocab list and checking the dictionary. So why bother?
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