WORD POWER

WORD POWER

Word Power empowers students and they should know the true value of improving their vocabulary. Students at the college level should have a minimum of ten thousand words for their active use. It is surprising to know that in speaking English, not more than a hundred words are used daily by any speaker in the world. In all the language activities like Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing (LSRW) not more than a thousand content words or meaningful words are used daily. All the other words are called passive words or words which are useful to understand messages and, these “Other words” are scarcely used words. Nevertheless they do the function of activating the cognitive abilities of students. Learn a few new words like the following and try to enrich yourselves.

Logistics – The careful organization of a complicated activity so that it happens in a successful and effective way – CALD

- The flow of goods, information, and other resources, including energy and people, between the point of origin and the point of consumption, is defined as logistics. -The New Indian Express.

Amalgamate - (V) Combine, merge, unite, join, fuse, blend, meld, mix, incorporate-

(opp) separate

Blueprint - (N) Plan, design, diagram, drawing, sketch, layout, model, template,

pattern, example, guide, prototype, pilot

Cache - (N) Hoard, store, stockpile, stock, supply, reserve, arsenal

Diagnose - (V) Identify, determine, distinguish, recognize, interpret, detect,

Pinpoint.

Excel - (V) Shine, be excellent, be outstanding, be skilful, be talented, stand

out, be second to none

The short cut to improve your word power is the judicious use of thesaurus i.e. Book of synonyms. Try to learn minimum a hundred words a day.