Hi everyone!
For today’s assignment, the vocabulary building strategy I chose to try was Context Clues. Instead of immediately looking up a word I didn't know, I forced myself to read the sentence before and the sentence after to see if I could guess the meaning based on what was happening in the text.
I practiced this while reading an article about space exploration this afternoon.
Did it work for me? Yes, it actually worked really well! I found that taking a few seconds to actively guess the word's meaning made it stick in my memory much better than just passively reading a dictionary definition. It felt more like solving a puzzle.
Here are a couple of new words I learned using this strategy:
Ephemeral: The sentence was talking about how a certain comet is only visible for a few days, calling it an ephemeral event. I guessed it meant "short-lived" or "temporary," and the dictionary confirmed I was right!
Proximity: The article mentioned that a satellite needed to stay in close proximity to the space station to transfer data. I figured out from the context that it meant "closeness" or "nearness."