Clearly one of the hardest elements of keeping your Greek is vocabulary. Even if you remember your paradigms and recall the syntax, without knowing what the words mean, it is all for nought! Not only is vocabulary easily forgotten, there are many words that only appear once or twice in the New Testament. All of this means that vocabulary acquisition and retention can become a major hurdle for keeping your Greek. I get the impression that some people are “above” learning vocabulary. What I mean is
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