How readily you can recall knowledge from your internal archives is determined by context, by recent use, and by the number and vividness of cues that you have linked to the knowledge and can call on to help bring it forth.
This is why etymological vocabulary building is so effective.it gives your easy cues to retrieve the meanings.
context based vocabulary bbuilding also occurs when we find a word five times in different contexts, we undersand the implied meaning. All children learn language through implied learning. Not through vocab and grammar classes.
