Elaboration

Vocabulary Improvement Technique #1: ElaborationDo you know that elaboration can boost your retention of words by more than 670%? According to http://www.improvingvocabulary.org/elaboration.html here's how....Elaboration is: "linking a word to relevant information at the time of learning"Here is an example to explain this further: Let's just say you are reading the dictionary and you come across the word "ponderous"(adj). You read the definition and it says "Having great mass and weight and unwieldiness". You may have learned a new word, but you are not very likely to remember it, because you have only engaged in a small amount of elaboration.In order to remember the word properly, you need to link it to meaningful concepts such as examples, similar words, synonyms, and other concepts that you relate to and understand. For example, if you have recently moved house, you might remember the fridge was a "ponderous burden". Many words have more than one meaning and you would have noticed that ponderous also means "dull and labored".For more of these vocabulary techniques visit http://www.improvingvocabulary.org/

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