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-Abbhirami

Every day while skimming thorough books, newspapers and journals we come across new words. We sometimes try to understand their meaning from the sentence, that we read or we sometimes assume their meaning vaguely. But to gain a good knowledge about anything, you should have a very good insight about it. So to  get a clear picture of what you read ,you have to know the exact meaning of the sentence .  Words are the soul of the sentences so it is so essential to know the apt meaning . Running to a dictionary and quickly glancing their meaning may just remain in the head for hours. But to have the word remain in head for a long time ,you should go deep. You should find the root word of it. This will give you a picture of how the word has mutated. When you discover the root word and know its derivation, the process becomes so simple. Then you will have a whole amount of words in your head waiting to be used.

The study of the origin of words is known as Etymology. 

Etymology is the most important thing that we must always have in our conscious. The methodology of figuring out the root word of a derivatives and why and how a word is called as such(those you come across in all books, paper ,etc) will make you learn loads of words in very short period.

Word today:

Gregarious

1660s, "living in flocks" (of animals), from Latin gregarius "pertaining to a flock; of the herd, of the common sort, common ," from grex (genitive gregis) "flock, herd," reduplication of PIE root *ger- "to gather  together, assemble" (cognates: Greek ageirein "to assemble," agora "assembly;" Old Church Slavonic grusti "handful;" Lithuanian gurgulys "chaos, confusion," gurguole "crowd, mass"). Sense of "sociable" first recorded 1789.  Related: Gregariously; gregariousness

Egregious

 1530s, "distinguished, eminent, excellent," from Latin egregius "distinguished, excellent, extraordinary," from the phrase ex grege "rising above the flock," from ex "out of" (see ex-) + grege, ablative of grex "herd, flock" (see gregarious) Disapproving sense, now predominant, arose late 16c., originally ironic and is not in the Latin word, which etymologically means simply "exceptional."  Related: Egregiously; egregiousness.