Reflection Post

Studying new vocabulary words has had me notice different things such as if i smell something i might think of the word putrid which leads me to think of squalid and i remeber what it means. So different every day connection keep me from forgetting the word and i tend to use it more in my writing. I do notice a lot of the words ive learned and the new words im learning are useful but half the time a lot of people dont know those words and have no clue what im talking about. When im learning a new word now i just tend to relate it to one word that i already know such as my example above i know the word putrid and and i know that squalid means dirty and or filthy, but it can also mean piquant which is a strong pungent smell. So by mememorizing one word i can memorize a huge array of other words with little to no effort on my behalf. As i mentioned earlier i did find myself using about half the words ive learned and the stories we made in class this week make it funny to rememeber the words. Im remembering about seventy five to eighty five percent of all the words im remembering inevitably i cant memorize them all some are just too odd and uncommon for english words when you could just say it in lamens terms and get your point across much easier.