Vocabulary for Lesson 13 (Vocab Quiz 3.1)

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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.)
prayer
To call upon God, asking for His help and blessing, according to the promises of His Word. To call upon God on behalf of others, the church, those in authority, and the world, as He has instructed us to do. To speak back to God the Word He has spoken to us in the words of a psalm, a hymn, the creeds, the liturgy, or the catechism.
disciple
A believer in Jesus who trusts in His Word. This term also names the Christian a follower, catechumen, or student of Jesus.
invocation
To call upon the name of God, as in the Divine Service, before prayers, or at other times of danger, need, or thanksgiving.
holy lives
Lives that are sanctified or cleansed by the Word of God.
to profane
To treat the name of God like dirt by teaching false doctrine or living contrary to the Word of God. To use something in an unholy, dirty way, or in a way that God did not intend it to be used.
salutation
The proclamation in the Divine Service in which the pastor pronounces the blessing that the Lord be received by the baptized through the hearing of His Word and the reception of His Sacrament, and the baptized confess that the Spirit of the Lord is with the pastor as he ministers to them in Christ's stead. This proclamation confesses faith in the Lord's promises: "Lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age" (Matthew 28:20) and “Where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them" (Matthew 18:20).
collect
This type of prayer usually follows a formal structure that contains five standard elements: the address, the Gospel foundation for the prayer, the petition or request itself, the benefit of the answered prayer, and the trinitarian termination. In the Divine Service, this prayer "collects" the central thought of the Sunday or Feast in a single petition that is grounded in the promises of God in Christ.
The Prayer of the Church
The central prayer in the Divine Service in which the baptized people of God give thanks for all His gifts and pray, according to the promises of God's Word, for the church, the nations, those in need, the parish, and other concerns.
priesthood
The word that describes the baptized people of God as those who live as "priests" for one another in the various vocations to which God has called them. They listen to the Word of God, they pray, they confess, they teach, and they offer the sacrifices of love to their neighbor and a "broken and contrite heart" to God.
the kingdom of God
The reign of Christ, through the Spirit, in the hearts and lives of His people.
vice
A sinful habit or action that continually enslaves a person.