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Why is it important to read novels like Harry Potter?

As one grows every year, the brain accumulates more and more information and the speed with which the information can be recovered depends on how organized the information is and how fast has the brain been trained to map and fetch references. Some ways in which the brain can be trained to be active and awake is to break the routine. When the body is trained to do something on a habitual basis, the excellence of the human design is to become able to do it without any real effort going into it. This is how you take the turn at the right place, from work to home even when you're listening to music or talking to a friend by your side. So when you're doing a routine, you can be sure that your brain is virtually uninvolved. So to make it awake, break the routine! Do things, usually done with the right hand, with the left and vice-versa. One such way to equip the brain, to be more organized is to present more data to it and segregate them well. This can be done by reading novels set

Guide to a good vocab!

So, whats it to build a vocabulary? Vocabulary, in my personal opinion is not mere knowledge of a number of contemporary words but the ability to start using them in your everyday lingo at college, at work, amidst friends. Don't take it a level where it is easily misunderstood for being bombastic. Vocabulary, in addition also implies the ability to recognize roots of words and trying to interpret an unknown word's meaning, given the context in which the word under question is being used. So how can one build a vocabulary? 1) When you have just entered junior high school or college, start reading books intended to introduce you to a horde of new words , (no, no not a dictionary). There are various books, that are aimed at increasing your vocabulary. One of the best of such books is "Word Power Made Easy" by Norman Lewis. In this book, every new chapter has 4-5 sessions. And in the beginning session, the reader is introduced to 9 or 10 new words and is explained their