Ministry of higher and secondary special education of the republic of uzbekistan course paper

4.3. Incidental Learning
Incidental learning is unplanned or unintentional learning. It may occur while carrying out an activity that is seemingly unrelated to what is learned. Early research on this topic dealt with how people learn in their daily routines at their workplaces. For many people, mobile devices have been integrated into their daily lives, providing many opportunities for technology-supported incidental learning. Unlike formal education, incidental learning is not led by a teacher, nor does it follow a structured curriculum, or result in formal certification. However, it may trigger self-reflection and this could be used to encourage learners to reconceive what could otherwise be isolated learning fragments as part of more coherent and longer-termm learning journeys. [10.447]
9 Strategies of this learning:

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  Check the word form
  It can be as dull as calculus class for a humanist. Nonetheless, the word form can give you some cues about the meaning. Here, we’ve got – look at that – an adjective. To be more technical: a singular, feminine Russian adjective.
  
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  Look at the context (if there is a context)
  If you hated literary analysis in high school, just skip through. But I don’t recommend doing so because extracting the meaning from context is a powerful skill.
  In this case, our adjective certainly means something disgusting. Moreover, it is a shared property of the moon and a worm. Hummmm…
  
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  Brainstorm for possible meanings
  I mean… Imagine a worm. Imagine the moon. Give up and jump to the step #4
  That’s the case when the context doesn’t actually give you enough cues to guess the meaning
  
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  Check in a dictionary
  And so you open your fancy Cambridge Russian-English Dictionary, type the word in and discover that it means “whitish”. Yikes.
  
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  Practice pronunciation
  There is literally 0% chance that you ever gonna use “белесый” in your everyday speech. Nonetheless, if you happen to encounter something useful be sure to check how to say that.
  
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  Write it down
  No, seriously. Write the word in your language journal, create a flashcard in Anki or just save it with Readlang for future reference.
  
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  Use it in a sentence
  When you write things down, keep them pinned to some context. Don’t just throw in space a card “белесый-whitish”. Try your best to write your own (preferably memorable) sentence containing this word – if the worm one wasn’t memorable enough.
  
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  Review it
  Spaced repetition time! To make the most of your reading, stick to the SRS schedule and review this word. It will help you to remember it.
  

So you can do all this. It shouldn’t even take more than 20 minutes per word. 
Or you can simply check the word in a dictionary and use the ancient wisdom:

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