Developing your vocabulary:

Developing your vocabulary!

Vocabulary:
The cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge!

Cognition is a process of acquiring certain skills/language, be it (spoken or written), which enables us to communicate more effectively.

For example, "The boy stood on the burning deck, when all but he, had fled."

The question you may be asking yourself is, why did he not flee the flames?
And you may be presuming too, that he might have been so scared, that he became transfixed. Fear may have been the reason why he did not automatically respond, or remove himself from that situation.

And why did someone not try to rescue or save him, from the flames of the burning ship? Had everyone abandoned ship without noticing him? Or was he left behind in the general panic and confusion?

Whatever it was, that statement 'the boy stood on the burning deck, when all but he, had fled,' has induced endless speculation about his dilemma or predicament. And that is what vocabulary enables us to do in spoken or written language!

Imbedded:
To fix or set secretly or deeply!

Today on Manhattan Neighborhood Television, someone was asked in an interview on the street, what does it mean to be imbedded? This was in relation to news reporting in Iraq by journalists. And surprisingly, no one knew the answer. Even though this was being mentioned/explained time and again, on television during the war in Iraq.

I think it all comes down to the regular or frequent use of certain words or language in our day to day experiences. When you incorporate a wide array of vocabulary in your daily life, the tendency to pluck out the appropriate word from your mental archives comes naturally. Much more so that those who do not explore or expand theirs!

Om Shanti.
Derryck S. Griffith.
Political Educator & Advocate.
http://profiles.yahoo.com/Mimbari2003