Increasing your Vocabulary

The best way to increase your vocabulary is to read widely and to rernember a good deal of what you have read. This may seem like an old-fashioned method, but there are really no shortcuts. There are, however, ways of improving your effieiency in learning the new words that you encounter. Knowing how to find clues to the meaning of a word elsewhere in the sentence and knowing something about the ways words are formed will help.
This chapter is intended to help you develop skills that will be useful in building a better vocabulary. But before you begin, take the following test on the meanings of following words:

Diagnostic Test
Number your paper 1-25. After the proper number, write the letter of the word which is nearest in meaning to the word at the left.