Comments on: How to Expand Your Vocabulary http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/01/28/how-to-expand-your-vocabulary/ A First Things Blog Sat, 18 May 2013 04:22:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ian http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/01/28/how-to-expand-your-vocabulary/comment-page-1/#comment-88461 Ian Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:11:51 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=56313#comment-88461 I would also recommend studying Greek and Latin at school. As well as training the brain, you gain an understanding of how words are formed. We used to play a dictionary game where one team would select a word from the dictionary and the other had to define it (with the benefit of the doubt going to the person doing the defining). Many non-classicists picked words they had never heard of (especially long words) but we classicists could dissect them and come up with a decent definition.

]]> By: Barry Hudock http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/01/28/how-to-expand-your-vocabulary/comment-page-1/#comment-88426 Barry Hudock Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:34:04 +0000 http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/?p=56313#comment-88426 “the fastest way to gain a large vocabulary . . . is to follow a systematic curriculum that presents new words in familiar contexts, thereby enabling the student to make correct meaning-guesses unconsciously.”

That method sounds to me like a verbose way of saying a simple thing: read a lot.

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