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You are welcome to my personal blog. I am Kapil Dev Regmi, a graduate in English Language Teaching, Education and Sociology. Now I am a student at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC. My area of research is lifelong learning in developing countries. This blog (ripples of my heart) is my personal inventory. It includes everything that comes in my mind. If any articles or notes in this blog impinge anyone that would only be a foible due to coincidence. Also visit my academic website (click here)

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Review of 3500 Master Word List of BARRON

Today I have completed the preliminary review of 3, 500 master word list given in Barron's book. Though I had read them a couple of times, I don't know most of them. Hence I couldn't score good in the last exam. I only knew that the words were GRE words but I used to confuse with the majority of the words. This time I have not only read but written them. On this day, May 23, 2010 I have completed them by writing in my notebooks. Now I need to repeat them, rumminate over them and make them my own words so as to be able to use them freely in different context while writong and while inditing anything in my volition. It started from Abase and ended with Zephyr crossing 50 Word List and 26 alphabets. Some of the alphabets remained very tiresome as they had many words starting with. Some of them were A, B, I, M, N, P , R , S and T. Anyway I have finished them. There are almost no words whose concepts have not been clear. I would like to note a couple of reflections that I made after completing this preliminary review.
  1. We need to understand the concept of each new words only then I can remember them, otherwise dry parroting makes no enduring verbal influence in my mind. Learning a new word means getting a new concept for which all of the synonyms can remembered shortly.
  2. It would be good to use them in my own sentence but as I have to learn as many words as I can in a day, it becomes difficult to give much time to a single word. To satisfy hastening mind I flick over the words every day.
  3. Sometimes I feel why people have made so many words as the primary purpose of a word in language is to work as a means of expressing concept. The language would have been more succint, precise and malleable if the language had only one word for one concept. My embryonic thought mignt be wrong. May be literature composers need more words...
  4. The words with pronunciation nuances are very confusing, hence they need extra meticulous focus for deciphering
  5. Overindulgence in words has made my mind blunt, I need to hone it by using these discrete in creative contexts
  6. Having learnt a majority of these words also I can not take any assurance for secruing good score as exam can befuddle me with entirely different magical composition and analogy of the words.
  7. Now I feel more comfortable reading  abstruse and esoteric reading matters. At least I have somethig at the end whether the real GRE is any good for venturing a new scholarly world.
  8. Almost half of the words have been typed while practising, and some of them are in this blog for future practice.

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