English Vocabulary Made Reasonably Easy: 5150 Exercises for the SAT, TOEFL and GRE (Improve English Vocabulary Through Synonyms and Antonyms Book 13)

To a native speaker of English, the difficulties that the language poses to any other student can be almost impossible to understand. Not only is the size of the vocabulary vast and constantly growing, the pronunciation rules are also fairly arbitrary, and the spelling does not correspond exactly to the pronunciation, making the whole package fairly hard to master.

Most resources that help you get better at English focus on the introductory levels. However, there is a very important market for English word power lessons that help students get from an intermediate level to an advanced level, and this book fits right in that sweet spot.

The stated aim of the book – to teach a skilled student of English up to 2000 new difficult words – sounds easy to state, but it is deceptively hard to achieve in real life. The key aspects of my pedagogical approach that have helped me realize my goals are as follows:

1. A focus on fun while learning: If the quality of the approach did not matter, I could just present a list of all the words and their meanings. However, I have chosen to concentrate on the journey as much as on the destination, and this has made sure that you will have as much fun solving the thousands of exercises in this book as I had in setting every single question just for you.

2. Keeping the relationships between words in the forefront: Correlation is the biggest thing that helps a new word learner strengthen his or her knowledge, and this is made to happen by gathering words with similar meanings, and making them the focus of my book.

By the time you get to the end, I am sure that you will have significantly improved your chances of excelling at any given standardized test: whether you want to make your prospects better as a student of the IELTS, the SAT, the GMAT, or any other test, you have come to the right place!