The technique of word grouping involves dividing a longer word list
into new, shorter lists by classifying or reclassifying the target language
terms according to one or more important attributes. In this way, some
degree of context is created. Word grouping establishes new groups or
sets of words which hang together because of some common theme or
characteristic, unlike the generally unorganized, decontextualizing word
lists described earlier. The theory seemingly underlying this technique is
that grouping makes vocabulary learning easier by reducing the number
of discret