Vocabulary for Lesson 4 (Vocab Quiz 2a.1)

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Learning is work. There are multiple ways to study. Different study strategies will work differently for each student. Serious students should try all of them several (6-7) times to see how they work when done well. For the best learning, every student will likely need to use more than one strategy and switch between them. Here are some tips:

  1. Use multiple senses: read, speak, and hear the material aloud. Then, write your version with a pencil into your notebook and notice how that feels. Then, read your own definition aloud as you study. (combine with the next two strategies)
  2. Use your brain: condense the definitions into a form that makes sense to you. Identify key words for every definition. Think of synonyms that you would use. (combine with the other strategies)
  3. Use your body: say your definition and act it out with an expressiveness that fits the meaning.
  4. Use your friends and family: Ask someone to quiz you using spaced repetition for a set amount of time, from your notes. (Example: for 10 minutes, all questions get repeated, but the quicker and more accurate your answer, the longer the interval until that question comes back. Questions you get wrong are repeated sooner.)
  5. Use basic technology: Show all definitions and hide all the terms on this page. Try to remember each term before you show it (by clicking the definition) to check your answer. Then, show all terms and hide the definitions on the page. Only show a definition (by clicking the term) after you have made your best effort to remember your own version of it.
  6. Use tools: Make a stack of index cards with terms on one side and your definitions on the other. When reviewing, don't check the opposite side until you've made your best effort to remember. Sort them into three stacks: Easy, Hard, and Failed. Then re-sort the Failed cards and work through the Hard cards until they are all Easy.
  7. Use advanced technology: On the web (Example: SuperNotes with free signup or with subscription.) or on an app (Example: Anki), create a stack of virtual cards and let the software quiz you. It will use spaced repetition automatically.
  8. Use brute force memorization: Copy a term and definition from this page. Then navigate to Catechesis Contents > Memorization Tool and paste it into the box, then follow the instructions on that page. (Caution: this works quickly for memorizing texts, but must be repeated a few times after a break for long-term recall. It is less effective than the other strategies for understanding what you memorize.)
God the Father
The first person of the Holy Trinity to whom we ascribe the work of creation, whose nature is love, and who, together with the Son and the Holy Spirit, is one God, almighty and eternal.
I AM
The name God gave Himself at the burning bush, that shows Him to be the only true God of salvation and the One who had called Abraham to faith.
Lord
The name for God which indicates that He has saved me and has dominion over me and all things. It is the name often used of Jesus in the New Testament and to translate the name “I AM” from the Old Testament. To address God by this name is to confess, “You are my God, I belong to you.”
God's Attributes (The language that Scripture and the Church use in describing God:)
omnipotent
“almighty, all-powerful”
benevolent
“good, kind, desiring our welfare”
faithful
“keeping promises”
eternal
“without beginning and without end”
just
“fair and impartial”
gracious
“showing undeserved kindness, forgiving”
immutable
“unchangeable”
omniscient
“all-knowing”
holy
“sinless and hating sin” or set apart
omnipresent
“present everywhere” or ubiquitous
compassionate
“full of pity”
love
grace
The “fatherly, divine goodness and mercy” of God. His gracious favor and undeserved love. It moved Him to create us out of nothing and to save us while we were still sinners, and it still moves Him today to provide us with “daily bread” and to give us the gifts of salvation for Jesus’ sake.
the creation
All that God made out of nothing and which He alone sustains.
God's providence
The gracious activty of God by which He preserves, upholds, directs, and governs His creation.
the image of God
The gracious self-giving authority that God gave to man to have dominion over the creation, and to be fruitful and multiply.
The Creed
The church’s unchanging, public, and universal confession of faith that is drawn from the Word of God. It is the third of the five great songs of the Divine Service. Its very name means “I believe.”
catholic
This word means the one faith confessed in all times and in all places. It is used to describe the one, holy, apostolic church, and also the true Christian faith. Unfortunately, it has become a synonym for the Roman Catholic Church.
the Apostles' Creed
The ancient creed, usually associated with Holy Baptism, teaching the faith to children, and the daily prayer life of Christians, which confesses the historic Christian and apostolic faith in simple language.