Hi
I’m able to recognise the meaning of a word within a sentence but less so when in isolation.
Do I know the word or am I just guessing due to context.
It’s most likely always gonna be due to context since that’s what we train ourselves to learn from
This makes sense as I’m looking for patterns
You stand somewhere in the middle of truly learning a word. Let’s say you encounter an adjective. First, your brain determines whether it has a positive or negative connotation. Next, it categorizes it—for instance, as a personal trait. Then, you start understanding its more nuanced meaning, all within context. Over time, your brain recognizes the word in different contexts, but there’s still some uncertainty.
For me, I don’t move a word into the “learned” category until I’ve encountered it, say, 10 times in various contexts. Even then, I only consider it fully known when I feel confident in understanding and using it. At that point, it may still remain in my passive vocabulary.
So, rely on you feelings
Thank you for some feedback
I’m now quite happy to move words back down a few steps if I forget it