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The risks of undisciplined vocabulary usage
when you start learning the definitions of some new words, we would'nt advise employing them until you've heard them used many times, and have a clear and pricese sense of what they mean. otherwise you could sound like a moron. Or worse, a pretentions, insecure jerk. Here are some common faux pas and our suggestions for was to fix them.
- You might misprounounce the word. This is perfectly awful. The listener will get all caught up wondering if you made a mistake, if he should tell you, if you'll get irritated once he does, and thinking that perhaps you're not so well spoken after all. Before you know it, he won't hear a word you have to say.
- You might misuse the word. This is particularly egregious mistake. The listener will get all caught up wondering if you know you made a mistake, if he should tell you, will you get irritated if he does, about how smart you are after all, why you are so insecure you have to use words you clearly don't understand-and before you know it, he won't hear a word you have to say. This is probably just as well, since you're not saying what you inted anyway.
- You night use the word technically correctly but in the wrong situation to the wrong person, thereby completely turnig of your listener. We're thinking of the doctor who was ambling through the park with a nonmedical friend along with each of their respective children. The doctor's son suddenly banged his head on a tree, and after feeling the child's skull, the doctor commented somberly, " Yes, a significant hematoma ." The friend nodded, feeling significantly put off. The kid he thought, has a big bump. I need this? The doctor's friend promptly developed a hemicrania (a headache).
The Etiquette of Vocabulary Ignorance
You may give the impression that you are adevoted wordsmith, with an impressive vocabulary, thus opening the door for your listener to use some fancy words of her own that you won't understand. Then what?
- What to do when someone uses a word you don't know, we sugget saying, with a forthright air, " i don't know that one. Could you define the word?" The implication is that you already know tons. The impression is that you're therefore not embarrassed to no know this one. And the result is that you will escape looking like a charlatan, by the integument of your teeth.
- What to do when your listener asks for a word meaning. Don't say, "you're kidding?!"or, "you don't know what that word means?". All of us have holes in our knowledge base. The name of the game is , Get past the moment qiuckly because your listener is probably a little embarrassed. Simply say, "it means..." Then don't add, "You see?" Assume he does. Just move on with your temarks.
Back to big tests: what if you don't know a word?
Vocabulary is usually tested in the context of asentence. That's some help right there. The tick is, you have to find and use the clues. You have to be adetective. Here's how it works in the following sample test sentence.
- Criminals who show remorse are give lighter sentences than those who show no compunction.
Okay. So you have no idea what compunction means. But look at the sentence. criminals who show remorse get a good thing. But those who show no compunction don't. So it stands to reason that remorse and compunction must mean pretty much the same thing. That's the clue. If remorse indicates must mean pretty much the same thing. That's the clue. If remorse indicates shame or goilt, then compunction probably does too. Therefore " no compuction" would have to mean no shame, no guilt
Another example:
peter hed often heard that his photographs were similar to those of a well-established photographer; and so he worried his new, innovative portfolio might also be considered:
(A) typical
(B) formaless
(C) derivative
(D) incompetent
(E) suggestive
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