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The importance of vocabulary, the building blocks of every language, in having a good command of a second language is evident. However, the best way to improve the lexical knowledge of the students is an issue that is open to discussions. This study aimed at investigating three different methods for teaching new vocabularies to Iranian students who were striving to take command of English as a second language in order to determine the advantages of one method over the other in terms of immediate and delayed retention. In this endeavor, we set 105 intermediate adult learners of English into three groups and instructed each group with a specific method, teaching them a number of new words...