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14876838 No.14876838 [Reply] [Original]

How do you build your vocabulary? Does anyone have any good vocabulary lists?

>> No.14876845

>>14876838
read books

>> No.14876852

>>14876838
Increasing your vocabulary is EXTREMELY dangerous, you run the risk of spamming new words you learn making it obvious you are trying to show off or whatever AND you run the risk of using a word in what would be a dictionary correct definition but in reality the word isn't used like that.

The latter is very common when writing and using a thesaurus

>> No.14876862

>>14876838
read more and listen to interesting conversations
it isn't just about learning new words, but also finding new contexts to use those words within effectively; otherwise you'll just be spouting language without any real meaning as >>14876852 said

>> No.14876975

The biggest single thing that has helped me has been reading rhetoric theory or speeches. It doesn't help with vocabulary per se but it does help with having a more nuanced and more linguistically "deep" ability. Reading fiction or poetry do different things for you. So perhaps I can persuade you to try reading some books on rhetoric for its effect on your writing.

>> No.14876984

>>14876838
>How do you build your vocabulary?
Read the King James Bible

>> No.14876995

>>14876838
Lovecraft's good for that

>> No.14878339

Read book reviews, NY review of books for example or any art criticism for that matter.