<p>I would disagree with some of the above posts. Over the past couple years, I’ve memorized a lot of vocab words (required by my school). While initially, as many others have indicated, I didn’t have a working knowledge of those words, over time I began to notice them being used more and more often. I began to get a feel for when to use them, and started integrating them into my own vocabulary. If I hadn’t memorized those words, I probably wouldn’t have payed nearly as much attention to those words when I saw them; I would have just skipped over them without wondering what they meant. So while memorization alone wasn’t that useful, it ultimately benefitted me.</p>