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What are the best ways to learn new words? Once you have learned new words, how can you remember
them?
1 .What is your reason for wanting to improve your vocabulary-for a purpose, like the SAT, or for fun
and general self-improvement? 2 For example, there are books specifically written with methods for
increasing one's vocabulary for SAT test-taking.
3 Some people need to use what they learn in order for it to stick-as in conversation and writing.Others
succeed by taking quizzes. Still others are good at memorizing.
We tend to remember words more easily when we read about them in meaningful context, when we see
that they are useful and worth remembering, and also when they have been fully explained. 4 Most
word-of-the-day offerings supply the definition as well as an example sentence or two.
Studies have shown that a new word will stay in your vocabulary if it is regularly reinforced (强化) through
use and reading. 5 It is great to have a quiz book with you when you have to wait in places like a dentist's
office．Keeping a quiz book in the car and on the bedside table is good, too.
A. If you want to learn new words, knowing new words' meanings in your native language is in the first
place.
B. Also,you can examine how you learn best, especially word-based information．
C. Taking word quizzes is a fun way to spend a few minutes learning words.
D. Getting many kinds of methods towards your learning goal by reading.
E. Knowing how to use a word is just as important as knowing its meaning.
F. If you want to learn new words, you have to take a couple of things into consideration.
G. If you have a goal, it is good to read about different approaches toward achieving the goal.
