vocabulary


Learning Vocab Long-Term

If you’re like most students, you probably have little trouble memorizing vocab words for quizzes and tests.  The night before the quiz—be honest, sometimes the period before— you cram the words into your brain and you do just fine.  But three days later, they’ve somehow vanished from your memory, leaving you with that uncomfortable feeling the next time you encounter one of them (say, on the SATs) that you should know the word but it’s gone.  D’oh! So the question is, how do you learn words and NOT forget them?  Fortunately, there are several good tricks to this trade. First, while […]