One of the best ways to learn new words is to continuously practice their usage. One common exercise involves making sentences with vocabulary words. Students are given new words and encouraged to use them in sentences. This may be a good way to increase proficiency in ones own language, or a foreign language. The more time spent making sentences with vocabulary words, the more rapidly one learns
. these often unfamiliar words. Students study vocabulary in the first place, in order to ensure that they are aware that the language they speak contains many more words that are in common usage. Young people in particular tend to have a very limited vocabulary until they learn otherwise. Making sentences with vocabulary words is not only a valuable tool to learn words for use in a specific class, but it is also useful in expanding ones own vocabulary and therefore seem more intelligent. The use of context clues is a useful way to determine the meaning of a word without having to know it's exact dictionary definition. It may be better to make sentences using a word for which one only has a contextual definition. When a person's first language is acquired, they typically are not taught a word's exact meaning, but rather they learn it in the context of what is being spoken about. This is a more natural method of learning words. Simply using them until they become more comfortable to think about, write, and use on a regular basis. It is only in this way that a person's vocabulary can assimilate words permanently. Some words may be learned for a short amount of time in order to pass a test, or perhaps deliver a difficult speech, but only using a word regularly will make it really stick it someone's mind. More reference links: http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/CiLL/vocabula.htm. www.squidoo.com/vocabulary-sentence-maker
