Are you comfortable with your vocabulary?

You know where you stand. If you are in the below average or average group, you must consider, seriously; whether an inadequate vocabulary may be holding you back. If you scored above average, excellent, or superior, you have doubtless already discovered and unique and far-reaching value of rich vocabulary and you are eager to add still further to your knowledge of words.
Educational research has discovered that your I.Q. is intimately related to your vocabulary. Take a standard vocabulary test and then intelligence test, the result in both will be substantially the same.
The more extensive your vocabulary, the better your chances of success, other things being equal, success in attaining your educational goals, success in moving ahead in your business or professional career, success in achieving your intellectual potential. And you can increase your vocabulary – faster and more easily than you may realize.
If you read honestly, if you do every exercise, if you take every test, if you follow every principle, you will go through an intellectual experience that will effect a radical change in you.
For if you systematically increase your vocabulary, you will also sharpen and enrich your thinking; push back your intellectual horizons; build your self-assurance; improve your facility in handling the English language and thereby your ability to express your thoughts effectively; and acquire a deeper understanding of the world in general and yourself in particular.

Increasing your vocabulary does not mean merely learning the definitions of large numbers of obscure words; it does not mean memorizing scores of unrelated terms. What it means – what it and fascinating phenomena of human existence for which words are, obviously, only the verbal descriptions.

Increasing your vocabulary – properly, intelligently, and systematically- means treating yourself to an all round, liberal education. And surely you cannot deny that such an experience will change you intellectually. You will have a discernible effect on your methods of thinking – on your store of information – on your ability to express your ideas – on your understanding of human problems.

Mind-mapping is one of the best tricks to increase your vocabulary. By presenting ideas in a radial, graphical, non-linear manner, mind maps encourage a brainstorming approach to planning and organizational tasks. Though the branches of a mind-map represent hierarchical tree structures, their radial arrangement disrupts the prioritizing of concepts typically associated with hierarchies presented with more linear visual cues. This orientation towards brainstorming encourages users to enumerate and connect concepts without a tendency to begin within a particular conceptual framework.

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