文档介绍：Lesson 14
Expanding Your Vocabulary (2)
Unit Five
Developing Your Word Power
Work on Vaguely Familiar Words
One of the best groups of words to begin with are those
that are vaguely familiar— those that you have heard or
seen before but cannot precisely or accurately define.
Use Words to Remember Them
No matter how much time you spend recording and
looking up words, you are most likely to remember
only those you use fairly soon after you learn them.
Forgetting occurs extremely rapidly after learning
unless you take action to use and remember what you
have learned.
Learning Multiple Word Meanings
Actually most words in the English language have
more than one meaning. You can see that there is
considerable opportunity to expand your vocabulary
by ing aware of additional meanings of words
you already know.
Practice of Reading Techniques
Each of the following words has more than one meaning.
Fill in each of the following blanks with one of them to
plete the sentence. Make changes if necessary.
charge spring gross reach perish
partial share yield advanced
Must then a Christ _______ in torment in every age to
save those who have no imagination?
perish
2. The police have only a(n) ________ description of the
suspect by a handful of witnesses.
partial
3. Man will go down into the pit, and all his thoughts
will ________.
perish
4. A man with good team spirit always tries to do more
than his _______ of work.
share
5. The jury has e to a verdict that was
________ to the Christian.
partial
6. The little baby refused to _______ her chocolate bar
with anyone.
share
7. It is a false belief that stock investments will always
______ higher percentage of reward.
yield
8. Comparatively speaking, a person of _________ age is
more respected and enjoys more family happiness in a
country with longer history.
advanced
9. The child pleaded again and again for one more ice
cream, but the parents wouldn’t ______.
yield
10. Our government att