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Enhance Your Vocabulary for the New Year: Tips and Tactics

Start the New Year with a robust vocabulary! This comprehensive guide covers essential vocabulary-building techniques, including effective essay writing tactics, sentence completion strategies, and insights into tricky words. Explore different word roots such as "Cap," "Gen," and "Voc," to deepen your understanding and improve your communication skills. With practical examples and interactive exercises, you'll gain confidence in mastering new words and meanings. This guide is designed to make learning enjoyable and impactful. Let's dive into the rich world of language!

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Enhance Your Vocabulary for the New Year: Tips and Tactics

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  1. Review, REVIEW! Happy New Year!

  2. Use your Vocabulary! • BEN/BON: • EU: • MUT: • META: • MORPH: • BELLU, BELLI: • PRO: • GNOS/SCIEN: • IST: • IZE: • ITY: • PUG: • IN: • LOQ, LOG,LOC,LIX: • CRED: • GYN: • ANDRO: • DE: • EX: • GREG: • LUC, LUM, LUS: • AMBU: • CAP/CIP/CEPT: • GEN: • DIC/DICT/DIT: • SPEC/SPIC: • SUPER/SUR: • TEND: • TRANS: • DOC/DUC: • POST: • AN: • A: • CACO: • ANTE: • NE/MAL • IM: • SOP/SOM: • PHON/SON: • PATH: • PAC/PLAC: • PUG: • ETTE: • OUS: • IFY: • ATE: • ILLO:

  3. New Words • Cap/Cip/Cept: (take) • Gen: (birth, kind) • Co/Con/Com: (with, together) • Vers/Vert: (turn) • Sen: (feel, sense) • Nom/Nam/Noun/Nown: (name, order, rule) • Cla/Clu/Clo: (shut, close) • Vo/Voc/Vok/Vow: (call) • Fra/Frag/Frac: (break) • Gress/Grad: (step) • Sec/Seq: (follow)

  4. EXTRAS!!! Hard to understand • ABSTRUSE: • LEVITY: • INEPT: • TRIVIAL: • EBULLIENT: • VIVACIOUS: • PARSIMONIOUS: Frivolous, unimportant Clumsy, incapable Not important Bubbly happy Full of life Stingy

  5. Try it out! Vocab Decode Troublesome, unruly • Fractious • Digress • Transgress • Inconsequential • Anonymous • Preclude • Nomenclature • Anomaly avoid from the main point tresspass Not important No name full of A pre-conclusion The process of naming Not normal

  6. Vocab Tactics—Two Tricky Words! • Obsequious (two forms: ob = toward and against-a trick!) • Equivocate or equivocal (two equally weighed ideas-confusing) • So what is Unequivocal?

  7. Essay Writing Tactics! • Examples • Do an Outline quickly first • Write essay ahead • Include good pick up line, three course meal and a goodbye kiss! • Some details can be made up if near accurate • Use personal experience if applicable

  8. Sentence Completions! • Read the whole thing, then Read it again • Plug it in • Predict • Positive and Negative • Hard ones, have hard answers • Skip hard vocab ones

  9. Connections… OPP • What do the following signify? • Although • Because • Nonetheless • But for • However • And • But • Or • Despite • While • Therefore SAME and CAUSE/EFFECT OPP OPP OPP SAME OPP OPP OPP OPP SAME and CAUSE/EFFECT

  10. Find the hardest answer • & Look for important Clues that tell you what the blanks are: EXP: Acid rain is damaging lakes in ____ way, causing the virtually unnoticed ____ of these aquatic ecosystems. M • A. a manifest…eradication • B. a nefarious…polarization • C. an insidious…destruction • D. a methodical…amalgamation • E. an obvious…stagnation N M N N

  11. Pos or Neg (Medium hard) + • The meal had ____ effect on the famished travelers: their energy was restored almost instantly. M A. A tonic B. A cloying C. An indefinite D. A debilitating E. An intemperate M N N M

  12. Plug it In! • Many writers associated with the Harlem Renaissance were not originally from Harlem; drawn by the artistic community it provided, they _________ the place as home. • A. neglected • B. adopted • C. avoided • D. criticized • E. encountered N M N N M

  13. Reading-New Tactics! • See handout

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