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Mission

To revolutionize vocabulary learning by mimicking the way the brain naturally acquires word knowledge.

Conception
The Training Program
Scholarly Research
Standardized Tests
Memorizing wordlists
Theory of Vocabulary
References
Do you ever ask yourself why you don't have a high vocabulary? How are you different from those who do?

I got a clue while in college. The students who whipped the SAT Verbal all had one thing in common - they read … a lot. Their reading started early in life and it included anything they could get their hands on. So it's certainly plausible that …

Avid reading is correlated with a high vocabulary level.

Why should this be? Well, those who read encounter more words than those who don't read. Of these encountered words, some will inevitably be difficult words - words that are unknown. Perhaps by running into these difficult words over and over, the reader builds a mental image of the word?

Words can be learned from context

Why not build a web page that allows one to see see difficult words used in context? Wouldn't that help someone understand the word better? What is seen on the homepage is my first pass at such a tool.

However, I rarely learned words from using it, I mostly read the definitions and maybe an example or two. The knowledge was ephemeral and days later, it was gone and I was frustrated. What was I doing wrong? Could it be that …

Words have to be seen in many contexts, over time

As one reads, the same difficult word is not usually encountered many times in a row. The readings are varied in subject matter and spaced out over months or even years. With this insight, I began to build the core of DictionarySquared - the training program.