WEEK3 3.8Creating Meaningful Groups and the Memory Palace Technique

DATE 2016/01/21
COURSE Creating Meaningful Groups and the Memory Palace Technique
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3.8 Creating Meaningful Groups and the Memory Palace Technique

WORDS

delve

If you delve into something, you try to discover new information about it.

ward

A ward is a room in a hospital which has beds for many people, often people who need similar treatment.

Garlic

Garlic is the small, white, round bulb of a plant that is related to the onion plant. Garlic has a very strong smell and taste and is used in cooking.

hawthorn

A hawthorn is a small tree which has sharp thorns and produces white or pink flowers.

mustard

Mustard is a yellow or brown paste usually eaten with meat. It tastes hot and spicy.

graham

made of graham flour

cracker

A cracker is a thin, crisp biscuit which is often eaten with cheese.

stitch

If you stitch cloth, you use a needle and thread to join two pieces together or to make a decoration.

knit

If you knit something, especially an article of clothing, you make it from wool or a similar thread by using two knitting needles or a machine.

carpal

any bone of the wrist

cranial

Cranial means relating to your cranium.

grocery

A grocery or a grocery store is a grocer's shop.

drib

a small indefinite quantity (especially of a liquid)

purist

A purist is a person who wants something to be totally correct or unchanged, especially something they know a lot about.

sniff

When you sniff, you breathe in air through your nose hard enough to make a sound, for example, when you are trying not to cry, or in order to show disapproval.

oddball

If you refer to someone as an oddball, you think they behave in a strange way.

gimmick

A gimmick is an unusual and unnecessary feature or action whose purpose is to attract attention or publicity.

template

A template is a thin piece of metal or plastic which is cut into a particular shape. It is used to help you cut wood, paper, metal, or other materials accurately, or to reproduce the same shape many times.

novice

A novice is someone who has been doing a job or other activity for only a short time and so is not experienced at it.

internalize

something such as a belief or a set of values, you make it become part of your attitude or way of thinking.

embed

If an object embeds itself in a substance or thing, it becomes fixed there firmly and deeply.

formula

A formula is a plan that is invented in order to deal with a particular problem.

sling

If you sling something somewhere, you throw it there carelessly.

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OUTLINES

• simplify the material.
• The first letter of each word in the sentence is also the first letter of each word in a list that needs to be memorized.
• The memory palace technique is a particularly powerful way of grouping things you want toremember.