Lesson 2: Vocabulary from Specialized Fields

🟦 Introduction

Imagine you’re at the hospital, in a bank, or at a construction site. Each place has special words used by the people who work there. These are called specialized vocabulary. In this lesson, you’ll learn to recognize such terms and link them to their correct fields — a skill that WAEC loves to test.

🟩 Key Concepts and Explanations

1. What Are Specialized Words?

They are words used in specific careers or subjects, like:

• Diagnosis, syllabus, ballot, budget, referee, lens

2. Common Fields and Example Words

3. Guessing from Context

Sentence: The nurse gave the child a vaccine to prevent infection.
Even if you don’t know “vaccine,” you can guess it’s medical.

4. WAEC-style Traps

Be careful of words that look common but have field-specific meaning:

• Draft (finance or military?)

• Subject (school subject or person under authority?)

🟨 Practice Exercises

✏️ Exercise 1: Match the Word to the Field

Write the field: (Education, Health, Government, Finance, Religion, Transport)

1. Curriculum → ______

2. Pastor → ______

3. Conductor → ______

4. Voting → ______

5. Invoice → ______

6. Clinic → ______

✏️ Exercise 2: Odd One Out

Choose the word that does NOT belong to the group.

7. President, vote, referee, ballot

8. Nurse, vaccine, injection, referee

9. Syllabus, textbook, surgery, teacher

10. Taxi, bus, train, altar

✏️ Exercise 3: Fill in the Blanks

Use these words: [pharmacist, syllabus, referee, altar, deposit, ticket]

11. I bought the medicine from the ______.

12. The passengers had to show their ______ before boarding.

13. The teacher gave us the new term’s ______.

14. The pastor stood behind the ______ during the sermon.

15. I went to the bank to make a ______.

16. The ______ gave the striker a red card.

✅ Answers and Explanations

Exercise 1: Match the Word to the Field

1. Education

2. Religion

3. Transport

4. Government

5. Finance

6. Health

Exercise 2: Odd One Out
7. Referee – others relate to politics/government
8. Referee – others relate to health
9. Surgery – others relate to education
10. Altar – others relate to transport

Exercise 3: Fill in the Blanks
11. Pharmacist
12. Ticket
13. Syllabus
14. Altar
15. Deposit
16. Referee

🔁 Recap

You’ve now:

• Explored vocabulary from specialized fields

• Learned how to spot unrelated words

• Practised real WAEC-style vocabulary tests

🪞Reflection Prompt

Pick one of these fields: education, health, religion, government, or finance. Write a short paragraph using at least 4 words from that field correctly.