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SSC/NDA/CDS/CTET/AIR FORCE/BANK/RLY

2nd May 2020 | 12:30 PM – 01:15 PM

VOCABULARY SESSION-1By: Santosh Sir

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Understand the appearance of WORDS

1. Single word- courageous/ rivalry/ futile/ gregarious

2. Two or more fixed word group( PHRASE)-in the morning/ at dawn/ for good/ at sea/ call on/ call off/ take off

Approach to learn words

1. She is a courageous girl.

2. There is rivalry between ram and Shyam.

3. Please don’t waste time in futile things.

4. Human beings are gregarious in nature.

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1. She left India for good.

2. She called on her friend yesterday.

3. Please take off your shoes.

4. These things were at sixes and sevens.

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1. We forget words after sometime./wrong expectation

2. Confusion between similar words.

Our Nature for vocabulary

3. Where to start and how to start????

4. We become less interested in learning words.

Our Nature for vocabulary

1. It is like petrol.

2. To understand anything…..

3. 35% to 45% of questions come directly in papers.

4. 20% to 30% of questions of comprehension and Grammar.

.ROLE of Vocabulary

1. Spoken English ??? (500-1000) (1000-1500) 2000+……….

2. Newspaper Understanding??? 2500+…….

3. Examinations???? 3500+……

How many words????

1. Synonyms2. Antonyms3. Idioms and Phrases4. One word substitution5. Confusing words based on HOMOPHONES (come/cum) (write/right)

6. One word many meanings(HOMONYMS( Right, game etc.)

Varieties of Words

1. Root words

2. Mnemonic ( word, sentence, poem etc. to learn something)

3. Relating to anyone’s personality or Past memory

4. Repeating words again and again

Ways to learn vocabulary….

5. Reading stories , novels, newspaper etc.

6. Solving questions

7. Making story, based on the words

8. Using words in sentences.

Ways to learn vocabulary….

We FORGET after sometime, it is Natural…..

Please revise

FORMULA:1-100..Word 6-10 times 6-10 days=You remember for good

ALERT!!!!!!

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Don’t learn 5/10 words everyday

Don’t learn dictionary

Don’t read Hindi and English Newspaper simultaneously

Don’t give up/ Have patience

PLEASE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Loquacious

Soliloquy

Eloquent

Grandiloquent /magniloquent

Root words

Somnolent

Somniloquist

Somnambulism

Insomnia

Root words

Parsimonious

Modicum

Mnemonic

Diligent

Extirpate

Mnemonic

Voracious Avid Avid/ Voracious reader

Staunch believer

Make an effort

Paired expression

From Newspapers

From Newspapers

From Newspapers

Probe

Modus operandi

Bank on

At door Jump off / from

From Newspapers

Apple of one’s eye

Apple of discord

Apple pie order

At sixes and sevens

Idioms

Catch someone red handedIn the redSee redRed rag to a bullRed tapeRed carpet welcome/treatmentRed letter day

Idioms

Apathy

Sympathy

Empathy

Antipathy

Linking /Topic wise words

Apathy

Sympathy

Empathy

Antipathy

Linking /Topic wise words

Match the column -1A B

1. Loquacious2. Somnambulism3. Soliloquy4. Apathy5. At sixes and sevens6. Somniloquist7. Modus operandi

A. IndifferenceB. TalkativeC. ScatteredD. Working styleE. Walks in sleepF. Talking to oneselfG. Talks in sleep

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Match the column -2A B

1. Probe2. Mob3. In the red4. See red5. Antipathy6. Parsimonious7. Avid

A. AngryB. Angry crowdC. InvestigationD. Strong dislikeE. VoraciousF. In debtG. Miserly

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FILL THE GAPS

• ( sympathy, to , antipathy, for )

• 1. Growing …………….to the government has led to low voter turnout in local elections.

• 2. It is hard to find any…………….for such an evil man.

• 3. They have a mutual antipathy ………each other.

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