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## Remembering roots through images

Lexaday
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A vivid image seemed a promising way to make a word’s meaning easier to recall. Giving every word its own picture, though, would create a new association to learn each time. I was interested in whether the same memory could help with several words, including ones I had not encountered yet. Roots offered a more compact starting point. Many words share an underlying idea such as speaking, hearing or sending. I used this shared meaning as the basis for a visual mnemonic, giving related words a common image to return to. Each lesson develops one root through those connections. For dict , associated with speaking, examples such as dictate , contradict and prediction show how the meaning takes different forms. A language model writes the explanations and examples, and an image model creates a visual mnemonic around the root’s meaning. The images here come from those lessons.