Love & cultivate new words
@Pushhyarag2000 (1416)
India
October 17, 2011 9:42pm CST
Building a good vocabulary & paying a little attention to grammar are keys to good English. One way of increasing interest in new words and imprint them strongly in memory is to follow what is known as etymology [study of roots of words]. Many English words have either Greek, Latin or french roots. Once the root is identified, its variants will be easy to understand. For example, 'gno' is 'to know' from which several words like 'ignorance', 'agnostic', 'ignoble' etc are derived. Similarly, 'bene' is 'good', which is at the root of words like 'benevolence', 'benefactor', 'beneficial'; 'uno' stands for 'one' from which are derived 'unique', 'union', 'universe', 'unique' and so on.
Do you build your vocabulary this way? Do you take interest in grammar? What resources do you use?
1 response
@Bluedoll (16770)
• Canada
20 Oct 11
Mostly just the dictionary but I have looked for etymology when trying to understand deeper topics specially when read. I think Greek is so interesting do the fact that so many things had there start around that time period. I feel words change or should we say are interrupted differently in time periods and by different groups.
