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Vocabulary tracking involves listing words in which you are unfamiliar and writing them down for future reference.  This helps you focus on words that are more difficult or that you’ve heard in normal conversations and didn’t know the meaning.

For instance, when you read a book and come across a word that is unfamiliar, do you look up the definition or do you skim over the word and try to interpret the meaning from the sentence?  This inhibits learning and you actually lose the opportunity to truly understand the meaning of a word.  You may even guess improperly while reading doing yourself a disservice by convincing yourself of the incorrect meaning and leading you to false information.

Using vocabulary tracking, instead of skimming over words, you write them down and research the word further.  This isn’t to say you need to stop reading your favorite novel to research a word, but rather you write the word down to research it later.  After finishing the section in your book, take the word and plug it into the Ultimate Vocabulary Software and find its meaning, matching synonyms, matching antonyms, and the complementary examples that are included in the software.

This will give you a new word to use, and it increases your reading comprehension.  It’s been proven that the greater your vocabulary, the greater your ability to read quicker and absorb the information.