How do you improve your vocabulary?

Question

How do you improve your vocabulary?

Answer 1

reading, doing crosswords, have a word of the day and use it a few times through that day,  have a pen pal,  

Answer 2

Take a good dictionary and learn one new word per day!

Have fun!

Answer 3

Read the dictionary.

Answer 4

There is a really good site called free rice word games. You can improve you vocab by guessing what words mean and for every one you get right the sponsors of the site donate 100g of rice to a third world country.

http://freerice.com/index.php

Its a great way to expand your vocabulary after playing it for a couple of days you will find you start using words in conversations that you never used before...

Conversations are the other best way to improve vocab talk to peple with a bigger vocab than yourself and when they use a word you dont understand ask what it means....

Another good way is to use a dictionary or theasuarus and give yourself a word day that you have to use in context somewhen during your day.

Good Luck!

Answer 5

For me, the best way to improve vocabulary is from media, you know, like TV, Movie, music, internet, novel, etc, and then practice it.  

Answer 6

Doing crosswords can help

Answer 7

practice

Answer 8

read more complex books, and then when you come across a word you dont understand, look it up!! easy!!lol

Answer 9

Good question. I'm a English major in college right now and my vocabulary is still horrible. I often read the thesaurus once everyday and I make a list of words that I spell incorrectly and then next to it, I write the correct and look through it every now and then.  

Answer 10

Here is how I did it:

I read a LOT. And look up any word I don't understand. To challenge and expand your vocabulary you can start reading classics, it's one way. Just get a list of classics and start reading.

I started with Charles Dickens.  I read all those, then I went to John Irving for a more modern theme (I realize Irving's books are not classics).

Then I read all of J.D. Salinger's books, then I tackled Moby d**k,

Pride and Prejudice, stuff like that, and I even read some of Gogol's work (Russian Author) as well as Solzhenitsyn.

And I kept a dictionary nearby. It's just that easy.  

Answer 11

read stuff!

Answer 12

...woo, you've got loads of answers :)

i would have to say reading or just hang out with posh intellectual people :))

Answer 13

Read  

Answer 14

Read books, listen to Radio 4, converse and buy a dictionary and thesaurus. Do not use big words to impress- They don't.*

Use words to better illustrate what you are trying to convey.

* 'Did we have a small precipitation last night?'

  'I believe It did rain a little.'

Answer 15

Exposure

Immersion

Visualization

Thesaurus

Dictionary

Pictography

Scribing

Answer 16

Read lots and lots, but also watch lots of movies.  

Answer 17

Buy a thesaurus.

Answer 18

Read the news headlines every day and note down any words that you are not familar with. Look-up and learn this list of words. This way you will be learning words that are current and relevant to what is going on.

Answer 19

Play scrabble and online games that increase your vernacular . Then apply the words to your everyday usage.  

Answer 20

reading, reading and more reading