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Developin G Vocabulary: Prepared by
Developin G Vocabulary: Prepared by
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Vocabulary
Prepared by
Shakila Akter
Lecturer in English,
BUP
Discussion
Topics
How to learn new words
Using context to get the meaning
Getting meaning from new word parts
How to choose the best word
Commonly misused words
Confusingly related words
Synonym and Antonym
Homonym
How to Learn
New Words
Strategies
Keep a list of words that you want to learn. Use a
special notebook for it.
Search for the meaning of these words and write.
Study them from time to time.
Try to know their synonyms and antonyms.
Look for these words in your reading and try
using them in writing.
Add prefixes and suffixes with these words to
come up with new discoveries.
Using Context
to Get
Meaning
Sense of the
Passage
■Like the previous studies, the latest
report has confirmed that smoking has
deleterious effect on health and
should, therefore, be discouraged.
loose lose
principal principle
quiet quite
to too
stationary stationery
Confusingly
Related Words
Confusingly Related Words
advice advise
affect effect
beside besides
elicit illicit
emigrant immigrant
hard hardly
Homonyms
Homonyms
bear bear
can can
tender tender
tire tire
Synonyms
and
Antonyms
Synonym Test
append horribly
belated
evade
bigotry intolerance
cursory tardy
hideously join
hedge hasty
Antonym Test
assert modest
belittle
follower
grandiose deny
harbinger orderly
queer extol
ratify revoke
Any
questio
n?