English Proficiency Programme

Vocabulary Building

Lots of words can be learnt together through
            Etymological Connections (word-root, prefixes, suffixes etc)     and
            Semantic Connections (meaning, synonyms, nuances, usage etc).

In the course of your normal reading, suppose you encountered the word     "corroborate"     a few times here and there.

Interesting word!

As you look up dictionaries, thesauruses and other resources (in traditional bound books as well as web-sites), you find a lot of illuminating material.

• Corroborate (v).

• Root: Latin 'roborare', to strengthen, from 'robur', for strength.

• Meaning: to confirm.

• Etymological connections: corroborable (adj), corroborant (adj), corroborative (adj), corroboration (n), corroborator (n) ... and distantly, ... robust (adj).

• Synonyms: confirm, strengthen, verify, justify, authenticate, substantiate, endorse, validate etc.

• Usage: in sentences.

• Special Sense: Information "B" corroborates information "A".
  It means that "B" supports "A"   and   "A" supports "B".

Some rich web-sites.

• Dictionary and Thesaurus.

• Vocabulary building.

• Usage.

Important: You should have something like 'normal reading' to encounter interesting words,
AND then
take interest to get into such scrutiny - once in a while.