Whydoyouincreaseyourvocabulary?You'11beabletocommunica...

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Why do you increase your vocabulary? You'11 be able to communicate more clearly and effectively, people will understand you more easily. Besides, learning new words is a fun activity-and one you can even do with the people around you. Challenge a friend, family member, or roommate to learn new words with you. The following are some easy ways to help learn new words.

1. Read, read, and read The more you read-especially novels and literary works, but also magazines and newspapers-the more words you'll meet with. As you read and meet new words, try to gain the meaning from the context (语境) of the sentence and, if not, look up the meaning in a dictionary

2. Keep a dictionary handy. Use whatever type you prefer-in print, software, or online. When you find a new word, look it up in the dictionary to get both its pronunciation and its meaning(s). Next, go to the dictionary and find similar words and phrases-and their opposites(反义词)-and learn the differences among the words.

3. Use a diary. It's a good idea to keep a list of the new words you discover so that you can refer back to the list and slowly build them into your everyday vocabulary. Besides, keeping a diary of all your new words can help learn even more words-especially when you can see how many new words you've already learned.

4. Play some games Word games that challenge you and help you discover new meanings and new words are a great and fun tool in your seeking for expanding your vocabulary. Examples include crossword puzzles.

5. Make conversation, Simply talking with other people can help you learn discover new words. Like reading, once you hear a new word, remember to put it down so that you can study it later-and then slowly add the new word to your vocabulary.

you find a new word when reading, you should first .

A. ask someone for help

B. guess its meaning in the sentence

C. look it up in a dictionary at once

D. pretend you haven't seen it

using a dictionary, you can't get .

A. the opposites of words

B. the meanings of words

C. the pronunciations of words

D. crossword puzzles of words

rding to the text, to increase your vocabulary, you should .

A. look up every new word we meet with