Vocabulary for Lesson 2

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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 relating to studying vocabulary. You can adapt them for memorizing texts.

  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.)
Pentecost
The day the Holy Spirit was poured out upon the apostles, in order that the Gospel might be proclaimed in all the earth. The signs and wonders associated with this day continued to accompany the ministry of the apostles, just as they accompanied the ministry of Jesus and bore witness to His authority from the Father. This event took place fifty days after the resurrection of our Lord.
the Holy Spirit
The third person of the Holy Trinity who proceeds from the Father and the Son to give life to the world, and who with the Father and the Son together is worshiped and glorified. His work is to proclaim Christ-to bring Him to us and to draw us into Him. He is active in the world through the preaching of the Gospel and the administration of the sacraments to bring sinners to faith in Christ and to sustain them in the life of faith.
the Gospel
The saving message of God's grace and forgiveness to sinners in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The word means "good news" and is the proclamation of what God has done in Christ for the world's salvation.
repentance
The knowledge of your sin and corruption. To be turned away from your sins, through the preaching of the Law and Gospel, to faith in Christ's word of forgiveness.
conversion
To be brought from the death of unbelief to the life of faith in Christ.
Baptism
This word means "a washing," and refers to the "washing of water by the word" (Ephesians 5:26) which forgives sins, drowns the Old Adam, creates faith in Jesus, bestows the gift of the Holy Spirit, and names us the children of God by joining us to Christ and His death and resurrection.
the forgiveness of sins
That God for Christ's sake no longer holds my sins against me.