Contextual Vocabulary Questions

Rules For Contextual Vocabulary – 

• Having a strong vocabulary is a must, which helps in leading you to the right choice of words.
• Maintain the overall tone and idea of the sentence. It will assist you to mark the opening and closing sentence that further makes aligning easier.
• Ensure that you have a thorough knowledge of demonstrative pronouns such as these, those, that, etc. as they are necessary to align the jumbled sentences.
• While solving contextual vocabulary questions, having a thorough knowledge of grammar is required in order to align the sentence constructively or appropriately.
• Questions based on contextual vocabulary often includes idioms and phrases and a student must have knowledge about the same.

Contextual Vocabulary – Rules and Examples

(1) Latin Keywords Method- 

Latin Keywords methods is the easiest methods to memorize the words. Once, you guess the base meaning of a word, you can easily recognize the meaning of entire sentence.

For Example- Seismic
(a) Seismology is study of earthquake.
(b) Seismologists is the person who study Earthquake.

(2) Parent Tree Method-

This method is very useful to memorize the synonyms and antonyms of words and use them in regular contexts.

For Example-

Take a word that you want to find more similar words for, maybe ‘Outdoor’. So make a point that whenever you come across any other word that relates to the meaning of ‘outdoor’, you parent word, note it down. This way you can get a book full words only with very little study.

Some common related words to outdoor- rustic, outside, garden, alfresco, woods etc.

(3) Associative Methods-

In Associative method try to associate or relate the words with events, picture or image or with other different you.

For Example-
Look the word DEFILE. Let associate with POLLUTE

Now, we all know that POLLUTE meaning is contaminated or harmful substance.
Hence, the DEFILE meaning anything that is impure or spoil.

In Associative Method there is almost a deep connection with the words.

(4) Suffix/Prefix Methods-

Many words in vocabulary doesn’t have keywords so its prefix can be used to know its close meaning. Prefix means the initial letters of a word that can be used to denote it in longer sentences.

For Example-
GEO is prefix of Geology. So, Geologist are the scientist that study the earth and geography is the study of geology.