Vocabulary for Lessons 4-5 (Vocab Quiz 2a.3)

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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.

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)
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)
Use your body: say your definition and act it out with an expressiveness that fits the meaning.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
angels: The powerful spirit beings whom God created to serve Him. Their name means "messenger" and they were used throughout the Bible to announce important events in God's work of salvation. They are ministers of the Lord who sing His praises in heaven and attend His saints on earth.
hell: The place of torment and punishment under God's wrath for eternity. It is sometimes called the place of “weeping and gnashing of teeth,” “eternal fire,” “lake of fire,” “place of the dead,” etc.
the order of creation: Man was created by God in two genders, male and female: the man was created first from the dust of the ground and the woman was created from the rib in man’s side. This does not show a “superior” and “inferior” quality between the man and the woman, but an ordering in this relationship of love between two different individuals. It shows both the uniqueness of each person and the corporate and dependent nature of their relationship. This ordering is a reflection of the ordering between the three persons of the Holy Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit: “None is before or after another; none is greater or less than another” (Athanasian Creed), and yet, the Son is "begotten of His Father" and the Holy Spirit “proceeds from the Father and the Son" (Nicene Creed). Holy Scripture teaches that "the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God” (1 Corinthians 11:3).
the Nicene Creed: The ancient creed, usually associated with the Divine Service and the celebration of the Sacrament of the Altar, which confesses the Christian faith, defending especially the deity of the Son and the Holy Spirit.
the Athanasian Creed: The ancient creed which articulates and defends the doctrine of the Holy Trinity. It is usually confessed on Trinity Sunday and, when appropriate, at other times in the church year.