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Vocabulary of Yoga-1
A typical Yoga class has the following set of instructions in it: Relax your Scapulas Relax your clavicle Stretch your vertebral column. Stretch your hamstrings What are our scapulas, clavicle and vertebral column? Doctors and health practitioners would know for sure...
Word power made easy: Session 5
In the previous posts, our focus of discussion was HATE-WORDS. Today we shift our focus and move on to words related to KIDS. You must have heard the word paediatrician: a specialist in the care of babies. Paediatrician comes from the Greek root ‘pedo-, paedo-‘...
Word power made easy: Session 3
In the first post of this series, we did a basic review of the book ‘Word Power Made Easy’. From this post onwards we would be taking some of his most interesting sessions and providing a brief distillation of the same. Today we have session 3 under our lens. In the...
The tale of the two hands
Learning Vocabulary can be tricky, especially when one thinks of using the various vocabulary books available in the market. Among the hordes of material that we find ourselves flooded with, it is important for you to pick up the right book. And this is where...
Words in and through Contexts
In the last blog, we read how to learn words through their origin stories. In this blog, we go back to the most basic method of learning words: through the context they appear in. I was reading the book ‘The Secret’ by the Indian Spiritual Guru Osho. The first chapter...
Word Stories: Relating origin to anecdotes
In the last article, we learned how to learn words through roots. In this post today, we extend the same discussion forward and see how word origin stories can help in learning words. There are times when names of individuals lend themselves to words, then there are...
Learning Through Roots
Learning words through their roots is an amazing learning method to learn them. One gets the benefit of learning multiple words through a single root; it is this multiplicity of knowledge that works wonders for an individual. YOU LEARN A SINGLE ROOT and YOU GET TO...
The quest for words
It is a challenge to expand one’s vocabulary. And it gets particularly challenging when one sees the plethora (meaning ‘extreme excess’) of options to study vocabulary from. In this article, our objective is to synthesize (meaning ‘to combine or cause to combine into...
