Why are GRE words so difficult to remember?

There are many ways to remember English words. The most important thing is to follow the principle and find a suitable method.

1, root affix mnemonic method

As the name implies, memory is strengthened by memorizing root affixes and inferring the meaning of new words containing such root affixes.

There are two kinds of roots. One is the root, from which many words with the same root can be derived, and it is also an independent word. For example, as an independent word, Easy is the root of Easy, Easy and easy.

The other is a root that cannot be used independently, but it has a basic meaning, which is roughly the same in different words. For example, the words mirror and mirage, in which the root of "mir" is equivalent to "wonderful" wonderful”“surprise ",meaning" strange and surprising ".

So: the mirror [mir is surprised,-or represents the object; Amazing thing, at first people were surprised that the mirror could reflect their own figure. ]

Phantom [Mill surprised,-age noun suffix; Amazing scenery. ]

Through the medium of "root", words are interrelated and easy to remember.

Affixes include prefixes and suffixes, and the "affix" memory method is mainly used to remember "derivative words", that is, "new words produced by adding an affix before or after the root."

For example, adding "after-"before the word "postscript" means "later", while "script" means "written material". Isn't it "supplementary text (attachment)" after the written materials?

Another example is the word "brochure". "-let" is a suffix, meaning "small". Obviously, "brochure" means "brochure".

It is a pleasure to memorize words through roots and affixes and analyze the source of words. As for the common roots and affixes, I don't need to go into details here, and the teacher will supplement them in the teaching process.

2, sound, shape, meaning memory method

Phonetic, morphological and semantic memorization is a summary memorization method based on the principles of association, comparison and induction.

① Phonetic words and morphological words

Phonetic words refer to words with similar pronunciations, such as usual and solitary, while morphological words refer to words with similar forms, such as pop-up and rejection.

② homographs with different meanings

Homographs refer to words with the same spelling but different meanings, such as bat (racket) and bat (bat), which have the same form but different meanings. Another example is lead[li:d] and lead[led], which have the same form, different meanings and different pronunciations.

Homophones refer to words with the same pronunciation but different meanings. For example, bear and bear have the same spelling, the same pronunciation but different meanings, and meat and meet have different spellings, the same pronunciation but different meanings.

③ Synonyms and antonyms

Synonyms refer to words with the same or similar meanings, such as glad and pleased.

Antonyms refer to words with opposite or relative meanings, such as raw and cooked.

4 palindromes, mixed words and deformed words.

Palindrome is a word that can be read both forward and backward. There are two kinds of palindromes. One is that the words read backwards are the same as the original words, such as level, meet, civic, madam and so on. The other is that reverse words are different from the original words to generate new words, such as but -tub, bin -nib and time.

Compound words are also called patchwork words, which consist of two words, such as smoke+fog = smoke.

Communication+satellite = communication satellite.

Medical care+nursing = medical insurance, work+welfare = work welfare, etc.

Morphemes refer to new words or phrases that change the alphabetical order of verbs or phrases, such as: eat -tea, part -trap, dirty room-success, woman Hitler- mother-in-law, etc.

⑤ Onomatopoeic words and transliterated words

Onomatopoeic words are words that simulate the sounds made by objects, people and animals, for example, bomb (bomb; Bombing) [quasi-bomb explosion], crackle (crackle) [quasi-crackle], grunt (grumble, complain) [quasi-grunt, grunt], grunt (whisper, stumble) [quasi-whisper], roar (growl, growl) makes the beast roar], owl [

3. Interesting mnemonics

Humor memorization is based on the relationship between pronunciation, word form and meaning, and uses humor and absurd misinterpretation to memorize vocabulary.

4. Sensory memory method

Sensory memory method is a method to mobilize the ears, mouth, eyes and hands to listen, speak, read and write in a unified way to achieve the purpose of memory. The advantage of this method is to communicate the connections between various parts of the cerebral cortex and reduce forgetting. We can memorize wholeheartedly, pay attention to the English around us, such as English on electrical equipment, English on product manuals, various warnings and slogans, and listen to foreign songs.

5, classified memory method

Classified memory is a method of classifying words according to the conditions such as theme and scope, and then comprehensively memorizing them. We can classify medical care, shopping, foreign trade and other aspects, or summarize them according to the themes of time, determination and attitude, and then remember them according to the memory principle.

For example, according to the classification of literary forms, many words can be summarized: biography, essays, reportage, memoirs, travel notes, essays, novels and so on.