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Originally Posted by Greenhat
if you encountered 3 new words in the whole novel then your method would be ok, but you cannot memorize 100 new words in that way.
Most of your vocabulary was built by writing new words where you were pupil.
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In my reading, I don't run across that many words I don't know. Three at most would be a lot per book. Moreover, they're often obscure words I'm not likely to run across again, nor actively use. I can usually infer, or deduce, the meaning, but it's nice to have the dictionary available.
My comment "why would anyone need to do that?" came about as I have tried in reading foreign language novels to keep lists of new words, but I wasn't able to stick with it. So, keeping a log list of dictionary words looked up wouldn't mean much based on the way I process information.