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WonderVocab Examples

acuity

Situation: You ask your child to use his sense of sharp hearing and listen carefully to his mom’s approaching footsteps, while you filch cookies off a kitchen closet.

Amateur: Use your auditory sharpness and signal me if you hear her coming.

Pro: Use your hearing acuity and signal me if you sense her approaching.

accost

Situation: You are helping a relative or friend to make a hassle-free exit out of a station or area where cab drivers usually approach and harass you to ride with them.

Amateur: Try avoiding that route. Else you could be approached by too many cab drivers who at times get aggressive in asking you to ride with them.

Pro: Try avoiding that route. Else you could be accosted by too many cabbies for riding with them.

abstruse

Situation: You have to confess to or share with a teacher that you find a particular chapter or a topic difficult to understand.

Amateur: I find this chapter/topic a little difficult to understand.

Pro: I find this chapter/topic a little abstruse.

Why WonderVocab?

Rich vocabulary makes ordinary, insipid, bland spoken English more lively and admirable. We all have met people who impressed us with apposite and smart use of words and remember them for life. Vocabulary is one important step in improving communication skills required for career growth and social empowerment. WonderVocab has developed an effective and unique methodology to grow your vocabulary. It focuses on spoken English and retention. But it doesn’t stop at that. The course process and structure actually help improve your sentence composition too. Over 1300 important and useful words have been identified from various Dictionaries. Fascinating professional uses have been developed for spoken English woven in everyday situations arising in office, during social interactions and at home to which all can relate. It will be worthwhile to visit our Examples and About Course for a better understanding.

But it is noteworthy that we are lauded for our vocabulary not hated. Now if we are trained as linguists, the onus is on us to be responsible in staying away from use of very difficult words or those that are not in the common use, during our routine interactions. The arsenal of vocabulary must be unleashed sparingly, selectively and appropriately to our advantage. We must use words depending on the person we are interacting with. So, for an executive working in a corporate, while using few fancy words, when interacting with a particular client, can win her business, with another it could lose too. Unnecessary use of even moderately difficult words, when talking to someone whose English skills are limited or where it is not required, could be detrimental.

In fact, it is always advisable to use vocabulary in such a way that either the situation that it is used in or the sentence composition or both define the word(s) making comprehension easy for the audience. Here are few examples:

Consider following clips from a discussion in a corporate meeting room.

Situation: In an office meeting you wish to conclude a seemingly endless discussion and take a final decision.

Sentence: “Let’s now conclude this interminable discussion and decide.”

Situation: You are explaining a plan to resolve some issue and foresee early opposition from colleagues.

Sentence: “Before you demur let me explain the plan.”

Clearly, the words ‘interminable’ and ‘demur’ have been tacitly defined and rendered comprehensible as ‘unending’ and ‘object’ by the situation and sentence composition.

Why the words learnt during the course are adequate and how will they help in better communication. Why one must not worry about more words.

Rich vocabulary makes ordinary, insipid, bland spoken English more lively and admirable. We all have met people who impressed us with apposite and smart use of words and remember them for life. Vocabulary is one important step in improving communication skills required for career growth and social empowerment. WonderVocab has developed an effective and unique methodology to grow your vocabulary. It focuses on spoken English and retention. But it doesn’t stop at that. The course process and structure actually help improve your sentence composition too. Over 1300 important and useful words have been identified from various Dictionaries. Fascinating professional uses have been developed for spoken English woven in everyday situations arising in office, during social interactions and at

Did you know?

There are roughly 100,000 word families in the English language.

A native English speaking person knows between 10,000 (uneducated) to 20,000 (educated) word families.

A person needs to know 8,000-9,000 word families to enjoy reading a book.

Studying heritage language learners reveal that a person with a vocabulary size of 2,500 passive word-families and 2,000 active word-families can speak a language fluently.

GOOD NEWS – If your goal is to speak English fluently, you are not required to study 10,000 words. 2,000 is enough to get you started.

The longest word in the English language, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

The combination “ough” can be pronounced in nine different ways. The following sentence contains them all: “A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.”

The word “set” has more definitions than any other word in the English language.

One of the amazing English vocabulary facts: of all the languages in the world, English has the largest vocabulary about 800,000 words

Dreamt is the only English word that ends in the letters mt.

Naturally the literary experts are greater “language consumers.” It has been determined that an average American journalist uses but 6,000 words in his newspaper articles, or 4% of the available arsenal.

However, at a higher literary level, it has been determined that Victor Hugo used an active vocabulary of 38,000 words; Shakespeare, 24,000; and Homer, 8,500. But Horace, with 4,600 words, came significantly below the American journalist, and Xenophon, with 3,200, was about equal to the present-day “average citizen.”