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Lecture 33

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We’ll start the lecture with some fun vocabulary games and activities.
Then, we’ll discuss how you can leverage the power of context to improve
your reading and writing vocabulary, and we’ll look at how you can make
use of “golden lines” that you run across in your reading. Finally, we’ll
explore the concept of vocabulary banks to remind you of possible word
choices in your writing for work or pleasure.

Vocabulary Games
z Vocabulary games can help ensure that your vocabulary knowledge
is broad, meaning that you know many words and can make
connections among them; deep, meaning that you have a good
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can apply words to new situations when you speak and write.
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games provide opportunities and challenges for you to use and
think about words in novel and creative ways.

z One fun vocabulary game is Hink Pinks, which involves word

riddles with answers that rhyme. Each riddle also contains a clue to

the number of syllables in the answer: If a player says “hink pink”

after providing the initial riddle, the rhyming answer will consist

of one-syllable words. If a player says, “hinky pinky,” the answer

will consist of two-syllable words, and if a player says, “hinkety

pinkety,” the answer will consist of three-syllable words.

ż The following are a few examples of Hink Pinks; the clue is

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ecstatic patriarch/happy pappy, evil preacher/sinister minister,

pusillanimous blackbird/craven raven, fractious young person/

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