It is not the word itself that is important, but the concept it represents. You must choose and develop your own vocabulary
Understanding concepts is much more difficult than teaching names, dates, and events, but is also incredibly more important. The concept of balance seems simple enough when applied to weight and gravity, but truly understanding the concept allows you to apply it to everything from nutrition, movement, and economics, to philosophy, politics, and design. What would balance mean in the context of the brain? The ecology? A dictionary? A car? Understanding .the meaning of this word/ concept gives you another brick with which to build.
The words or the language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images which can be “voluntarily” reproduced and combined … this combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.
- Albert Einstein