There are many methods of
expanding vocabulary
to be successful at
CAT 2012 , but one of the very best is to simply subscribe to a periodical or
magazine whose content is slightly too complex for the level of your
vocabulary. This will ensure that you come into contact with a steady stream of
words that you would not otherwise usually come into contact with. This is a
very important for a mature reader.
Another thing that you can do is
to join vocab communities online and hunt for online available books and
journals with slightly too complex words for your vocabulary. These periodicals
and books are what we call ‘source material’ and we will, in this article, show
you how to use this source material effectively to enhance and build up your
vocabulary to qualify in
Verbal Ability.
Now, when you read through the
journal, periodical or magazine, or even book, you’ll find that most of it is
easy for you to understand as you must have come across them before. But you’ll
find that now and again you come across a word that you don’t recall having
come across before. That’s the time to back up a little and take a good look at
it, because it’s an addition to your increasing vocabulary.
Read the paragraph again, and the
sentence in which you find the word. What does it mean? Try to unlock its
meaning on your own, before referring to a dictionary. Perhaps you might get it
right – often, like as not, you’ll get it wrong. But that’s not important.
What’s important is that, in
puzzling and thinking over that word, you will thoroughly remember it, and
having remembered it, you can, even if you got the meaning wrong the first
time, still easily look up the right meaning. The important thing is to
remember and retain the new words that you learn, after all.
When you are a mature reader with
lots of words in your memory bank, you must be aware of the fact that more that
learning a word, it’s important to know how and where to use it!
Expand your vocabulary and be
successful at
CAT 2012 !
