15 days to a phenomenal vocabulary - how to build a super vacabulary - Learn hundreds of words in 15 days

The best way to learn vocabulary is to expose yourself to new ideas. Reading novels, books, magazines, newspapers can significantly increase your vocabulary. Reading in themes and creating connections among word is essential. For example, If you are reading about doctors, then make connections among various types of doctors, and also find related words of words you read. Other than this, finding the origins of words, and understanding their etymology will increase your vocabulary many times. As from some roots and affixes, you can form many words.

 Here are some terms we will use while studying words:

a)            Etymology: the investigation of the source of words.

b)            Root word: A fundamental word to which attaches are included is known as a root word. It is also called stem.

c)            Affixes: An affix is added to the base word to change its meaning. The prefix is an affix attached to the front of the root. The suffix is an append added to the back of the root.

Pater (root meaning father) + al (  suffix signifying "having qualities of") – Paternal

Here, I am given few root charts, just read through them, and next time when you will come across any word, you will recognize its roots and meaning.

Word Formation Chart:

Common Roots Table

Common Affixes:

 Now that you have read this chart, you have covered roots of hundreds of words. Now you just have to expose yourself to new words in new contexts. For that, you have to read a lot of books, magazines etc. Even if you come across 50 new words in a day, you will have mastered 750 new words in 15 days. To boost this learning process, you can also read my upcoming posts on this blog.

hope this post has helped you.