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

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.

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.