Postgraduate Entrance Examination English Vocabulary: Root + Association Memory Method ()

Author: Yu Minhong
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: Every year, tens of thousands of postgraduate entrance exam candidates from all over the country enter New Oriental classrooms. Although they come from different life backgrounds and have diverse life experiences, their expressions are the same—filled with despair and confusion, yet also brimming with hope and longing for the future. Through their own efforts, they strive to change their destinies and achieve a lifetime of success. This is a common belief among all postgraduate entrance exam candidates. Faced with these young people who trade their youth and hard work for a better future, I always wish I could help them in some way, even a small bit of encouragement could become the last spiritual strength they need to overcome life's challenges. Therefore, I have traveled to many cities and given many speeches. In each city, I share my own story, the pain and sorrow, struggles and efforts, perseverance and determination, growth and joy from my life's journey. I tell them that failure and success are equally close to us—stay stagnant, and you will fail; take a step forward, and you will succeed. Failure is like a hazy veil before our eyes, seemingly endless, but as long as we bravely tear it open, we will find the vast blue sky and boundless seas of our lives behind it. While giving speeches to the students, I have also strived to do practical things that help them with their studies and exams. So, in my busy schedule, I worked with my colleagues to compile some English books to assist the students in their studies. The postgraduate entrance exam vocabulary book presented before you today is one of the fruits of our efforts. In English teaching, I have always favored etymology. Many years ago, I wrote a book titled "GRE Vocabulary Essentials," which introduced the "root + association" word memorization method. This method was well-received by many students, and the book was affectionately called "the red book" by many. The word memorization method used in this book has been referenced by many other books and has played a certain role in helping students memorize words quickly. Now, I am introducing this proven effective memorization method again in this book, "Postgraduate Entrance Exam Vocabulary," to help you overcome the major hurdle on your path—the vocabulary challenge—in the shortest time possible. This book starts from a practical perspective, not only helping you remember words quickly through effective memorization methods but also emphasizing the meaning and usage of words in the postgraduate entrance exam, complemented by interesting images to enhance memory. This book removes words like "apple, news, university" that you have already mastered in high school, focusing on the more than 3,500 core words that appear in the postgraduate entrance exam. It provides in-depth analysis of the common usage and collocations of these words, and through computer statistics, simplifies some rarely encountered meanings of words listed in the syllabus that have never appeared in exams, improving the quality and efficiency of memorization. At the same time, it identifies nearly 500 "out-of-syllabus" words that frequently appear in the past ten years' exams but are not listed in the syllabus. It categorizes and organizes vocabulary that appears in reading comprehension and the notoriously difficult "cloze" section with similar-sounding words, clearing obstacles for you to achieve high scores. The postgraduate entrance exam is not only a competition of knowledge and skills but also a test of psychological resilience and endurance. Only those who can endure solitude and make good use of their time can ultimately succeed. When you have endured those sleepless nights and overcome the constant temptation to give up, and finally achieve success, what you gain is not just a graduate school admission notice but also confidence in yourself and firmer steps forward on the path of your future life. The completion of this book would not have been possible without special thanks to the editors of Century Friendship. Jin Li, Yingwei, Wang Minxian, and Huang Bingqi have done a lot of research and proofreading work. The layout staff, Wang Ke, Liu Xiaoguang, and Zhan Ping, have also put in a tremendous amount of effort. I am grateful to all of them here.