Writing, how to enrich vocabulary

In the process of writing, the biggest headache we encounter is that we can't find accurate words to express our ideas. Maybe your thoughts are vivid, but your vocabulary is limited, but when you express it, it seems barren. Or your story is thrilling, but it is very boring because of the limitation of vocabulary.

? Today we are going to learn how to enrich vocabulary.

1. The importance of vocabulary

? Vocabulary is the basic unit of language and the cornerstone of human communication. Vocabulary can even limit our thinking ability. In the process of writing, if you want to express your thoughts as accurately as possible, you need to find accurate vocabulary. The bigger your vocabulary, the richer the ideas you can express, and the more vivid your articles will be.

‖? Vocabulary will limit your thinking.

? Vocabulary is the cornerstone of our understanding of an article. If you don't know a word in a sentence, it's difficult to understand the whole sentence. When we were in primary school, we knew a limited vocabulary, so when we read classic books like the four classic novels, there would be problems that we couldn't understand.

? Enriching our vocabulary can not only improve our writing ability, but also improve our thinking ability in turn.

? A large vocabulary will not only affect your writing ability, but also affect your thinking ability.

‖? The vocabulary is getting worse.

? Our language is getting poorer and poorer. When it snows, we just say: It snows heavily and beautifully. The ancients would say, "What is snow like?" "If catkins are not caused by the wind." When we see a flock of birds flying, we will say: Wow, many birds. The ancients would say: "The sunset is lonely in Qi Fei, and the autumn water is the same as the sky." In contrast, the language used by modern people is almost unattractive.

? The simplicity of language actually reflects the simplicity of our lifestyle. People who live in cities all the year round can hardly feel the changes in nature.

? When an online phrase appears, most official WeChat accounts will follow suit, and you will find a word brushed in the circle of friends. For example, most people don't know the word "bi", but after it became a popular term, everyone knew it for a while, and it was used frequently.

? The vitality of online buzzwords is very short.

? When writing an article, using online language can make your article more grounded, but excessive use of online language will shorten the life of your article.

You don't lack vocabulary, what you lack is the skill of using vocabulary.

? When we talk about vocabulary, we think of the word "diction". The word "Wen Ci" is very vivid. When using a word, it's like a process of dispatching troops. You should have enough soldiers to choose from, which requires the accumulation of vocabulary; If you want to put the right soldier in the right position, you need to distinguish the meanings of different words and use the most suitable word according to the context.

‖? Use precise vocabulary

? Try to use precise words when writing. For example, don't use the word "car" in general, but use the exact "Maserati"; Don't just write "fruit", be accurate to the specific fruit name, such as "orange" and "banana".

? The accumulation of nouns begins with distinguishing things around you. Use specific nouns to address them, not vague words. For example, if you see beautiful flowers in the park, point out the names of the flowers and change them into specific names such as iris and oleander.

? If you are a person with wide interests, your vocabulary will increase. For example, if you like walking, then you can accumulate technical terms in the field of running. If you like antiques, you will know more about ancient poems, antique nouns and so on than others. For example, a colleague likes visiting museums very much. She knows "secret glaze" and "You Chuntu, the wife of Guo". I didn't know these terms until I heard her talk. These terms are her usual accumulation.

? The richness of life will also affect your vocabulary. For example, if you are a foodie, you will know more about ingredients and dishes. For example, once, a friend mentioned the word "Hua Jiao". At first I thought it was "pepper". I didn't know that "glue" was the glue of "glue" until I asked carefully. People like me who haven't eaten gum don't know it exists.

? Therefore, if you want to accumulate more vocabulary, you should enrich your life in the long run. It is necessary to cross borders and learn more about different fields. Every time you enter a field, you will accumulate technical terms in this field.

? Of course, in the process of writing, if you can't remember the specific name, you can use general words instead. For example, if you can't remember the name of the tree, don't stop writing, just write "tree". Look it up after writing, and maybe you will find it is a "cherry tree".

‖? Use figurative words

One weekend in June, I went to my cousin's house. My cousin's 3-year-old son is identifying colors. He told me that this is lake blue, that is watermelon red, that is grass green and that is banana yellow. ...

? As adults, when we talk about colors, we often just use general words such as blue, red, green and yellow. These general words are so pale and powerless in front of lake blue, watermelon red, grass green and banana yellow.

? When writing, use more specific words. This has something to do with the way our brains remember. One of the most commonly used methods of brain memory is the memory palace method. Remember abstract unfamiliar things with concrete familiar things. Use specific words to make your article more vivid.

‖? Synonym substitution method

? When writing, you can only think of one common word, which can be replaced by synonyms. For example, when you describe fireworks, you can only think of beautiful fireworks. Then, you can search for beautiful synonyms on Baidu. After constant replacement, you will find that gorgeous fireworks are most suitable for the feeling of fireworks blooming.

? Use the "missing" method. I saw a method used by the author in a book. For a while, the "J" key on his keyboard was broken, so he couldn't use the "J" key. When chatting or writing an article, he can only use something else instead. For example, his five-stroke input method originally wanted to use the word "obvious", but it could not be input without the "J" key. Then he thought of the words "obvious" and "obvious", and finally he thought of using "shallow dew" instead.

? When writing words with the idea of "spit", the most taboo is platitudes. Your handwriting is similar to that of others, and idioms and proverbs are all there.

? In the process of writing, we should "dig out" the common words and sentences, and force ourselves to put ourselves in other's shoes and put pen to paper. You can also take out a letter on the keyboard and practice it deliberately, as just said.

‖? Matters needing attention in using vocabulary

? When using vocabulary, we should pay attention to the following three points.

? (1) Don't invent words.

? When writing, don't make up your own words. The words created are generally irregular and ambiguous, and readers don't understand the correct meaning of the words. As mentioned above, vocabulary is the basic unit of language. If you invent a word yourself, but the reader can't understand the meaning of the word, it will prevent the reader from correctly understanding what you want to express. Every word has a conventional meaning, and you should follow the rules of grammar when you form words into sentences. In this case, most people understand. If you invent a word yourself, only you know what it means, and readers don't understand it, which is not conducive to the spread of the article. Therefore, we should accumulate more vocabulary and use words correctly, instead of creating a word that readers don't know.

? ② Correctly understand the meaning of words.

In addition, we should pay attention to correctly understanding the meaning of words and using words correctly. When I was in primary school, there were questions about modifying sick sentences, and some of them were wrong words, which caused ambiguity. You can often see such sick sentences in some articles. For example. One night, I joined a speech club. The word "today" in the speech club is "white clouds and pale dogs", which I should use in my speech. Some speakers don't know the meaning of this word, and they use it stiffly in sentences during the speech, making many jokes. To use a word correctly, we must first understand its meaning correctly.

? ③ Use dialects as little as possible except in special occasions.

? Using dialect can add local flavor to the article, but using dialect will increase the difficulty of understanding. If readers can't understand the dialect you use, they can't understand what you want to express.

? Dialects are used less and less in the article, because most people speak Mandarin and don't have that deep understanding of dialects, so they seldom use dialects to express themselves when writing articles.

3. How to accumulate vocabulary

? How to accumulate vocabulary? It can be carried out from the following five aspects.

? (1) Intensive reading of first-class literary works.

? There are abundant words in literary works. When reading literary works intensively, extract the new words you see, record them in your own vocabulary, and extract the example sentences, so that you know how to use this sentence.

? ② Make good use of dictionaries to accumulate vocabulary.

? I remember when I was a child, I had an idiom dictionary. At that time, I could recite idioms. When learning English, we will encounter words we don't know, look them up in the dictionary and recite them. But for the study of mother tongue, we seldom look up words in the dictionary. It is still a good way to accumulate vocabulary by using a dictionary. You can know the correct meaning of a word by consulting the dictionary. For example, you can consult Xinhua Dictionary, Shuowen Jiezi and Idiom Dictionary. Look up new words you don't know and record them in the vocabulary.

? ③ Accumulate vocabulary from daily life.

? Learn to absorb the fresh language in life, and learn to listen and record. In daily life, some new words can also be included in your vocabulary. For example, I attended a speech club before, and when I heard the word "white clouds and pale dogs", I wrote it down to check its meaning, and then used it to make sentences.

? ④ Use the Internet to accumulate vocabulary.

? The internet is very convenient. When we read articles or materials online, we can also extract new words and add them to the vocabulary database at any time. For example, when I was looking up the idiom "no meritorious service", I saw the idiom "one day, one day, one day, one day", so I can put this idiom into my vocabulary.

? ⑤ The word everyday.

? In addition to actively extracting new words, we can also adopt the method of actively learning new words. For example, the daily vocabulary method. Learn a new word every day, use it to make sentences, or ask yourself to use it in the article. For example, today's daily word is "donation". You can record the meaning of this word in the glossary: Buddhism means that all the merits and efforts in the world will not be paid in vain, but will be rewarded. Then you use this word to make a sentence: if you don't donate, your efforts will eventually pay off.

4. How to build your own vocabulary?

? When reading an article, you should consciously accumulate vocabulary, establish your own vocabulary, put the accumulated vocabulary into your own vocabulary, and review and recite it regularly.

‖? Build your own vocabulary.

? Build your own vocabulary, either electronically or in a notebook. When you come across a new word, put it in your own vocabulary and make a sentence. Imagine a usage scenario.

? You can use a notebook to extract it, just like copying English words when you were a child. Write down this word, explain it, and then make a sentence.

? To accumulate vocabulary, we should review it frequently, just like Confucius said, "review the past and learn the new", and often take it out and recite it. In the long run, our vocabulary will be improved to some extent.

‖? list

? When we talk about accumulating vocabulary, the first thing that comes to mind is English. When learning English, we will think of memorizing words. However, when learning Chinese, except when I was in primary school, I seldom recited the text later. We spend much more time memorizing English words than learning Chinese.

? Learning Chinese is also about reciting.

? Mr Zhang Wuchang, an economist, mentioned in his book "I only sympathize with talents" that Chinese must be memorized. Chinese is composed of monosyllabic words. Learn how to form words by reciting, and imitate how experts choose words and make sentences.

? Classical Chinese has a strong sense of rhythm, so does reading and reciting. He thinks that children should recite more classic ancient texts. It doesn't matter if you don't understand. Memorize it first, and when you grow up, you will understand it naturally. Remember the best times when you were a child, and you should recite them more.

? One of the writing experiences of some famous writers is imitation. Look at the works of famous writers first, then learn to analyze the structure of the article, and then extract golden sentences to recite, which has become your own accumulation. If you don't recite golden sentences, you can't use them flexibly in writing.

? Reading, extracting and reciting are like saving money in a bank account, while writing is like withdrawing money. If you don't accumulate it at ordinary times, you will find that your account is out of money when you withdraw money, and you will understand how lacking your vocabulary is.