It is very important for everyone to have good vocabulary. Either it is for a school, a job or for personal growth; the key to strengthen and broaden vocabulary is regularly learning new words.

Strengthening and broadening vocabulary helps in communication and it can be written or verbal. People understand you more easily.

Six easy ways to improve your vocabulary:

Here are seven tips that will give you ways to improve and expand your vocabulary:

• Read as much as you can:

Read as much books as you can. Not just books, read newspapers, magazines, novels, literary books etc, because the more you read the more you will be exposed to new words.

• Keep a dictionary and thesaurus:

Always keep a pocket dictionary or thesaurus. When you uncover a new word look it up in the dictionary, get its pronunciation and its meaning. Next, go to thesaurus and find similar words and phrases.

• Keep a notebook:

It is good to write down new words in a notebook for quick review and slowly build them into your everyday vocabulary. Plus, keeping a note book of all new words can provide positive reinforcement for learning even more words.

• Learn a word a day:

Using a word a day technique is very easy and helpful in building up vocabulary. To easily memorize it, use that word as much as you can on that day.

• Play games:

Word games that challenge you and help you discover new meanings and words are a great and fun tool in your quest of learning new vocabulary. For example, playing word games such as scrabble, crossword puzzles, word jumbles etc.

• Engage in intelligent conversation:

Simply talking to someone can improve in information as well as vocabulary. Meet new people, socialize. Hearing different stories of their lives will be fascinating as well as helpful in expanding your knowledge and vocabulary.