Learning vocabulary is a very important part of learning a language. The more words you know, the more you will be able to understand what you hear and read.

Below is a list of words and standard abbreviations culled from a single issue of "Time" magazine (December 29, 2009):

The 64-words list from one issue of "Time" magazine is not an isolated instance of ordinary reading matter requiring a solid vocabulary.

In addition to your appearance and the way you carry yourself, people will judge you based on the words that come out of your mouth. Even if you are a mathematical genius, having a poor vocabulary will send across a message that you're not very intelligent. It is especially important for technically oriented people to pay attention to their vocabulary.

• Communicate more effectively.
• Improves self-confidence.
• Improves self-esteem.
• Adds sophistication to speech.
• Better/more job offers.
• Improves people’s perception of you.

Traditionally following methods are adopted to improve vocabulary -

• Readers predict meaning of  a word from the context in which it appears.
• Using prefix, suffix , roots etc .. to infer meaning of words.
• Reading a lot of news , magazine  and journals and learning new words on the fly
• Lastly and most boring Reciting and learning through repetition .

These techniques though good in their own right but are not configured to easy the burden in learning vocabulary.

We at Guru99 proudly present a new approach to vocabulary learning which uses the strengths of various learning strategies to ease vocabulary learning. Please, listen very keenly to the video below and look out for a WORD CLUE. Try and judge the meaning of the word from the context of the conversation.You may replay the video as many times as you want.

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Apprehensive means to be afraid , fearful , timid , cowardly.

In the Animated Story , Shi Fu was Apprehensive , that is,  afraid ,  to teach his disciple , due to his poor health.

That’s it to the lesson.

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