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giving you a few examples, and leave the rest for the study of the pupil. You can readily see how one word suggests the other; it may mean the same, or it may mean just the opposite. Words that are opposite to each other are easily remembered as Sweet-Sour. Steamer-Raft. The association of ideas is the mainspring of memory.
We take the same process in the remembrance of astronomical statistics, historical events both modern and ancient, latitudes and longitudes of places, heights of mountains, lengths of rivers, mythology, etc.
