How to Build Vocabulary? | Techniques to Improve Your Vocabulary | Havisha Rathore

Then you can just create the picture in your mind. But Google Baba told me that

No, this criminal is hiding its identity, Havisha. You can learn many meanings of

just one word and how. He backed the first rank in UPSC

2023, but what was... Do you know, what's in my hand? It's a dictionary. So, do you want

this dictionary to be in your bag or your head? Of course, in your head. Right?

So, if you want this dictionary to be in your head then this video is for you. So,

let's deep dive into the video. Wait! Wait! Wait! Here, I'm not promising you that you

will be able to memorize all the words in this dictionary. No, because that can't

be possible practically. Instead, I assure you that after watching this video, you

will get the hack to bring words from this dictionary into your head. So, let's

deep dive into the video. First of all, I would like to highlight the mistake that

we all are committing while learning vocabulary words. So, what is that mistake?

That mistake is that we just take up a dictionary, and we just start turning the

pages and at times we memorize too many words at a time and then after some time

we forget it because that is human tendency. We cannot memorize everything

at a time. No, that cannot be possible. So, we forget it and then when we know

that oh, no, I've forgotten everything then we get frustrated, and as a result

of that our confidence level will decrease and if your confidence level

decreases then you're just out of the game. Can this one pearl make a necklace?

No. Right? You need many pearls to make a beautiful necklace. Similarly, we don't

need one word to make a whole sentence. We need many words to make a sentence. So,

we must learn many vocabulary words. But, now the question arises, how can we learn

vocabulary words? Hold your breath! Here is the method by using which you will be

able to learn many vocabulary words slowly, day by day. And what is the method?

The method is D.O.T method. D.O.T method. But, what is this D.O.T method?

In D.O.T. method D stands for Detective. O stands for Observation, and T

stands for Trace. You must track and trace your progress. So, what do you mean

by detective? Let me tell you. Language detective. You must be a language

detective. Yes, my brothers and sisters, you must be a language detective. You

must develop language detective skills. But now the question arises, why

should we develop language detective skills? Because if we develop language

detective skills then you will get more bang for your buck which means that you

will derive more benefits than just rot learning. But now the question arises, how

can we become a language detective? You can easily do that by following four

steps. And what are those four steps? Let me tell you. Step one is that you must

find out the criminal. Step two: Hunt the criminal. Step three: Description of

the crime. Step four: Punishment. So, what do you mean by find out the criminal, hunt

the criminal, description of the crime, and punishment. Let's understand that.

Step number one is find out the criminal. Okay. To be honest whenever I used to

read any newspaper, I used to find a sundry of words that were just beyond my

gamut, like, for example, you take recently I was reading a newspaper and

surprisingly it was in just two lines of the newspaper, I found a number

of criminals, like, let me show you. It is a haunting blend of rage and

resilience, angst and dissent. There are parts dripping with defiance moments of

levity and a sense of poignancy. Poignancy, okay. It's not_______ It is poignancy.

Now, here, there's just two lines of a newspaper and see how many criminals

have I found? Rage, resilience, angst,

dissent, defiance, levity, and poignancy. See, I found

six 1 2 3 4 5 6 seven criminals in just two lines of a newspaper. Okay. So, step

one: Find out the criminal is over. What next? The next step is to hunt the

criminal. But how can we hunt the criminal? We can hunt the criminal using

two weapons, which are Google Baba and dictionary Didi.

You can use Google or dictionary. Now, many of us might not have a dictionary,

but Google is there everywhere. On every phone, you will find Google, and you can

just search that word, and you will get the description of the criminal. Okay. So,

step two hunt the criminal is over. What next? So, step three is description of the

criminal. Always remember once you know the description, once you know their

meanings then they are no longer criminals. Now, they are friends. Only once,

when you know their meaning. Okay. So, let's find out the description of the

criminal. Rage. So, it is a noun and a verb. It can be

used as a noun and verb, and its meaning is violent and uncontrolled

anger. Look at this picture. This is my brother, Keshu, and he's in a rage. Why?

Because I've just taken his toy without his permission, and let me tell

you. His toy is of no use also. Because he doesn't play with it. So, better if I can

play with it. Isn't it? So, this is my brother, Keshu, and this is my way of

memorizing words. And what is that way? It is a pictorial method. It means you must

learn vocabulary words by using pictures like this, and sometimes, it can also be

possible that you won't get pictures in Google baba for a particular word. So,

what you can do is you can just create pictures. You can either draw the

picture if you have a good drawing or if not then you can just create the picture

in your mind. Okay. So, this was rage. Now, moving on to the next criminal which

is... First of all I would like to tell you a story. Do you know, how Mohan became a

very happy man even though he failed his board exam. He failed

his 12th exam. It means he's a 12th fail. But you know how he became a very happy

man because, let me tell you his story. He was a very rich man, a very nice boy.

Everything was very nice but he failed his board examination. That caused him

great grief. But just because he was resilient, he became a happy man once

again. So, here, Mohan was very sad, but he became happy again because he got self-motivated.

That's why he became happy again. So, what do you call this kind of

behavior, from sad to happy? What is this kind of behavior called? This kind of

behavior is called resilience. It is called resilience.

Resilience means the ability to be happy and successful again after something

difficult or bad has happened.

So, that is called resilience. Moving on to the next word.

Angst, and angst is a noun which means strong worry and unhappiness, especially

about personal problems. Okay? Strong worry and unhappiness, especially about

personal problems. Now, this man has angst. Why? Because of anxiety,

stress, frantic. His life is hectic, uncertain. He's uncertain, driven. Urgency,

intensity. What is this thing? I don't know. So, moving on to the next criminal

which is levity. Okay. Levity is a noun which means humor or lack of seriousness

especially during a serious occasion. For example, look at Mohan. Mohan has fallen off

the bicycle, and he is severely injured. But look at Hussy Auntie. Hussy auntie is

still laughing. She's humorous in this serious occasion. So, what do you call

this kind of behavior. This kind of behavior is called levity. What is it

called? Levity. I hope you got it. So, moving on to the next criminal. The next

criminal is nothing but poignancy, and this criminal is very very

very very clever. You know this criminal was hiding his real identity. Why? Because I was

calling it _______ But Google baba told me that no, this criminal is hiding

its identity, Havisha. Its real pronunciation is poignancy. It's real identity

is poignancy. So, it is poignancy, not poignancy. Okay. So, poignancy is a noun which means

the quality of causing or having a very sharp feeling of sadness.

Very sharp feeling of sadness like, look at this boy. He is very very

poignant. Why? Because his board exam is starting from tomorrow, and he has not

even revised one chapter, not even that. That's why he is very poignant. I

hope you got it. So, let me give you a fast recap. So, to be a language detective,

we had four steps step. Number one uh find out the criminal over. Step

number two, hunt the criminal over. Step number three, description of the criminal

over. Now moving on to the last but not least step which is punishment. But now

the question arises, how do we punish these criminals? We must give these

criminals life imprisonment which means that we must lock them in our brain

forever and ever forever. It means that we must give them life imprisonment. But

how to do that? You can easily do that by using Link method. You must use

Link method. But how to use this link method? Let me tell you. So, for the

criminal rage, rage means violent and uncontrolled anger. So, how should I link

this word rage? So, here, rage. So, here, look at this. What is this? This is age. So, when

everyone reaches old age, almost all of them become very angry. Why? Because

nobody gives attention to them. For example, look at this man. He's my Nanu

and he's scolding my father. Why? Because my father cheated in chess, cheated in a

game of chess. I don't know what he did but my nanu is very very angry. Why?

Because after reaching old age everyone becomes very very angry. So, here rage, old

age and after reaching old age everyone becomes very very angry. That's how you

can learn this word rage. Moving on to the next word, which is levity. Levity

means humor or lack of seriousness especially during a serious occasion.

Okay. Levity means this and this. Now, how do I link it? The rhyming word of levity

is cavity and you know when my sister was having cavity a few days ago, I took

my sister to a hospital, or basically, I did not take, my parents took my sister

to a nearby hospital. And there, we came to know that our sister has a cavity and

the doctor said that it was a really serious problem, and then all of us were

really afraid, but my sister took it very lightly. She was asking for

chocolate, chocolate, chocolate, chocolate, and she was really laughing when we told

Harika, you have a cavity. You have a cavity and she was laughing. So, what is

this kind of behavior called? This kind of behavior is called levity. Before I

move on to the next word, I would like to ask you a question. Do you know, who is he?

He is Aditya Shrivastav. And do you know that he bagged the first rank in UPSC 2023.

But, what was his journey? Let me tell you. In his first attempt, he failed.

But still he silently worked, worked harder, and then in his second

attempt, he got the 236th rank. But he was still not

satisfied and again, he silently worked and then, on his third attempt, he

bagged the first rank in UPSC 2023. So, what is this silent, silent,

silent? This kind of behavior is called resilience. Now, here resilience, silence,

silence. Okay. So, that's how this word resilience is linked to that Aditya Shrivastav's

case you know. Resilience means the ability to be happy and successful

again after something difficult or bad has happened. Okay. So, what is the next

word? The next word is angst and angst means strong worry and unhappiness

especially about personal problems. For example,

look at this man. This man is scolding his daughter. He's very angry. And why is

he angry? He's angry because his daughter did not complete her homework. So, here,

angry, angst and here this man is angry. And why? Because his daughter did not

complete her homework. So, okay uh this criminal is done. What is the next

criminal? The next criminal is poignancy, and poignancy means the quality of

causing or having a very sharp feeling of sadness.

I hope you all have watched the movie of Kung Fu Panda, the Kung Fu

Warrior. If not then no need to worry. Anyway, let me link it. Here, poignancy,

po. So, po, po was very sad when one of his enemies called him a fat Panda. So,

what is this kind of sharp feeling of sadness called? It is called poignancy. Okay.

So, here, to remember this word poignancy, all you need to do is remember po, because

the sharp feeling of sadness that Po had when his enemy called him a fat Panda. So,

that feeling is called poignancy. The sharp feeling of sadness which po had is

called poignancy. So, that's how you only need to remember po to remember this word poignancy.

Or I would say to imprison this criminal in your mind forever. Okay. So,

here, let's have a quick recap. In D.O.T method D stands for detective. That we've

already done. O stands for observation. Now, here, why is observation important?

Let Me Tell You. O stands for observation. Once I was going to my swimming class

and there I saw a board on which it was written to-let and then I asked my mother.

Why have they placed the toilet board in front of their house?

My mother told me that Havisha, look carefully. Here, 'I' is missing over

here. So, it is not toilet. It is to-let which means 'for rent.' My brothers and

sisters, you must not ignore the magical power of observation. Don't miss this

point because observation is really important. You must look before and after

the word. What is before and what is after the word whether it is a prefix or

suffix, whether it is a collocation or a preposition. Okay. Now you will say okay

we should check about prepositions, collocations. Okay. But, why should we see

whether there is a prefix or suffix? Why? Let me tell you. Because prefix modifies

the meaning and suffixes modify the word class. For example, take the word 'kind.' Now,

here kind is without any prefix. But, when I add a prefix to it then it becomes

unkind. So, here kind and unkind are different words. Their meaning is

also totally different. Now, similarly, take the same word for suffix 'kind.' So,

here, kind is an adjective and if I make it, and if I add a suffix to it,

it becomes kindness and kindness is a noun. So, here, you can clearly see a

difference in the word class. So, that is the use of a suffix, and to modify the

meaning is the use of a prefix. So, this information is just a bonus for you. Okay.

My brothers and sisters, by the magical power of observation, you can learn many

meanings of just one word. And how? Let me give you an example. Observe these

sentences. It's my right to learn English. This is my right

hand. My mother righted my sister. I got all the answers right. Right! I got all the

answers right. Right! Isn't it? Okay. So, here, observe all these

sentences. After observing them, what do you find? You find that here right is

used as a noun. Here, right is used as an adjective. Here, right is used as a

verb. Here, right is used as an adverb. Here, right is used as an adverb. Right! Here,

it is used as an exclamatory sense. It is used in an exclamatory

sense. Okay. So, this is the power of observation. Okay. So, according to D.O.T

method, D detective over, O observation over. What is left?

T is left and T stands for track and test. We all like surprise gifts.

Don't we? So, why not take a surprise test? Isn't it? So, we must take surprise test

for learning English also. Okay. One day, I saw that my mother was keenly working on

the computer and I asked her, "Ma, what are you doing," and she replied to me that she

was tracking her payment history. I said, "Payment history? Why are you tracking

your payment history? It's just a waste of time. You've already paid. Right! So, why

are you tracking your payment history? And, she told me that no, Havisha, it's not

a waste of time. It gives me valuable insights to plan the next month's

expenditure. Okay. So, the conclusion of the day was that we must track and test

our progress. These two factors play a vital role on your journey of learning

English or I would say on your journey of learning vocabulary words. Here, I

would like to give you an important tip. Don't cram many new words at a time in

your brain. No. Because then you won't be able to

retain them rather take it slowly. Learn one word at a time, but carefully and

in such a way that you will be able to retain them.

You will forget them. So, to prevent that kind of situation, you must take it

slowly, one word at a time like that slowly, slowly. Slow and steady wins the

race. You must learn one word at a time but carefully and fully. Okay. So, now I

would like to give you six ways to measure your progress. Step number one:

take English test. Now, here, this thing might not sound super fun. But my

brothers and sisters, this is one of the easiest ways to measure progress. Isn't

it? Now, step number two: Use tools and websites with metrics. Now, what is this

metrics? By Metric what I want to say is that they will tell you how much percent

have you improved in numbers like 20% you've improved 25% congratulations

you've improved 1% you've improved 1%. And what will happen? If you use all

these metrics, you will be able to measure your progress. Why? Because they

help you track your progress. Step number three: keep a journal.

Because journals help you to improve your grammar, improve your

vocabulary, and improve your writing skills everything. They will help you to

improve all these things. What you need to do is that whenever you write a

journal, Journal means like at the end of the day whenever you write that okay so

this this this this and this happened to me

and this I did this and that. That is called a journal. So, suppose, you've

written Journal one and then you write another Journal then you must compare

the two and ask yourself that have you improved. Even if you've improved a

little bit then celebrate your progress because you've improved. So, step number

four is read and reread books and ask yourself, "How difficult are articles or

books for you?" What you must do is that suppose you read a book and you write

down all the new words that you have found in that book you've written down

all the words then after months and years later you must reread those books.

You must read them again and then you must jot down that how many words have

you remembered and how many words have you forgotten? How many words do you need

to look up in the dictionary or in Google baba?

Okay. So, the next step is self assess. Always remember you must be your own

judge to judge your progress. You yourself are the prisoner and you

yourself must be your own judge to judge your progress. The next point is keep a

list of the vocabulary you learn. Always remember the increase in the words that

you know will help you or will tell you your progress. The more words you know

the more your speaking level will increase. So, my brothers and sisters,

vocabulary is just like a balloon. Tried to speaking the more your

vocabulary level rises speaking will also rise with it your speaking skills

will also rise. They both go up together, not differently. They go up together. So,

with this note, I would like to end this video. I hope you have liked this video.

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