Welcome to the world of Dr. Vocabulary, where learning meets fun! Dr. Vocabulary is a linguistic genius who has dedicated his life to expanding the horizons of language enthusiasts. Through his innovative approach, he has developed a remarkable set of playing cards that will captivate your imagination while enhancing your vocabulary.
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Last night, one of my students was struggling with a few new words: attenuate, fulsome, and svelte. To help, I turned the word "attenuate" into a mnemonic involving the using 10 and 8, visually stretching them out in a picture to represent something weaker and thinner. For "svelte," I found an image of a slim […]
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Lots of excellent research has been done that demonstrates the cogency of mnemonics for learning vocabulary. I highly suggest you check out this paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/369515677_Mnemonics_and_Their_Effect_on_Students'_Vocabulary_Memorization_and_Recall_A_Quantitative_Study#:~:text=This%20research%20also%20revealed%20the,enthusiastic%20in%20memorizing%20English%20vocabulary.
Some word a more difficult to mnemonicize. For instance, conventional. Now, I would think to myself: "convent," a place where nuns live, but then how would I relate that to the word conventional? What is conventional about a convent? Perhaps, when dealing with words like this, it would be wise to compare. In this case, […]
