Vocabulary for Lesson 5 (Vocab Quiz 2a.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.)

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.

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.

the creation

All that God made out of nothing and which He alone sustains.

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.”

A man

The male human being whom God created to bear His image in the world as husband and father. His authority comes from God as he acts in God's place in marriage and family, especially in the teaching of the Word of God.

A woman

The female human being whom God created to be the man's vice regent and helpmeet in bearing God's image in the world as wife and mother. Her authority comes through her husband as she receives love from him and acts in his place within the family, especially in the rearing of children.

God's providence

The gracious activty of God by which He preserves, upholds, directs, and governs His creation.

the tree of knowledge

The object in the Garden of Eden to which God attached His word of curse: if man did not listen to God's Word and ate of its fruit, sin would be born and man would die.

the tree of life

The object in the Garden of Eden to which God attached His word of promise: if man ate of its fruit he would live forever.

heaven

1. The eternal, gracious, and saving presence of our Lord Jesus Christ in which God will remove forever the effects of sin, and there will be no more death, disease, sorrow, or pain.
2. The expanse of space above the earth including the sky and all that it contains, the sun, the moon, the planets, etc.

the Book of Concord

The book first published in 1580 that contains the historic confessions of the Lutheran Church: The three ecumenical creeds (or symbols), The Augsburg Confession (1530), the Apology of the Augsburg Confession (1531), The Smalcald Articles (1536), the Treatise on the Power and Primacy of the Pope (1537), The Small Catechism (1529), The Large Catechism (1529), and the Formula of Concord (1577). To this all confessional Lutheran pastors and congregations subscribe because its creeds and confessions are a faithful and correct exposition of the Word of God.