How can i increase my vocabulary level?

Question

I want to prepare for mba entrance examinations such as cat, mat, gmat

Answer 1

Hahah... cat mat and gmat. Word

Answer 2

Read alot! If you are interested in your MBA, make sure to read lots of business newspapers like the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, etc.

FYI - the GMAT isn't bad on vocabulary, that is mostly general vocabulary - sounds dorky, but there are websites like "the word of the day" These might be helpful to learn and throw into an essay here and there, but to augment your overall vocab knowledge, you just have to read a lot.

Answer 3

There are a few ways to increase your vocabulary level, but first,
you must be able to read, lots of reading, read what, you say?
World literature and history, art and architecture, English and
American literature, pre-industrial revolution, post-industrial revolution, even mathematics has a place in your vocabulary
reservoir.
The more you read the better you can practice what you read,
as if you intend to become a writer, or go for a master's in
one of the literature disciplines.

If you don't practice you will use it, or lose it, its that simple.
And remember, always keep in mind who you are speaking with,
you do not want to embarrass anyone by making them feel
uncomfortable by using strange and unknown grammar
on them.

If papa Hemingway wasn't writing he was reading, all great
writers are incessant readers, it feeds there never ending
hunger for more reading material.
Even the bad ones, they read everything, they are voracious.

Do book reports, the more the better, give critical reports on
major essays, pick a period of the Civil War and do a paper
on that.
Or analyze Fermat's Last Theorem and generate an opinion paper on whether you agree or disagree with his findings.
Do a DNA paper to analyze the benefits and detriments of
cloning sheep or humans.(Better not go there)
What would be the benefits of further space colonization?
Would flora and fauna flourish?
Could a new civilization take hold and re-generate itself?
Is it possible for man to sustain his life, totally from the sea?
Why can't we build more de-salination plants to convert sea
water into fresh water, and ship it into arid and desert regions
of the earth? Could we make arable land from dry land?
Could we start things to grow, agricuturally, enough to sustain
the population?

See there are a plethora of possibilities just waiting for someone to do a paper on, it may not always be held in total agreement,
when read by the science community, but neither was the US
Constitution when its amendments were first ratified and adopted. It took debate and compromise, thats the democratic way.

If nothing else, pick a topic or subject that you like, and go do
research on it, as much as you can, go to the source, if you
have to, trace its origins from the past, whats been done up to this point, is it worth further research and discussion?
Is it something that serves the public, or takes away from the public? Is it harmful or beneficial? Is is strictly political in nature,
and has no daylight for further discussion?

As far as your tests are concerned find out who actually drafts
up these tests, write or email them and ask for some
pre-test advice on what to bone up on, I would think science,
mathematics and English would be a great place to start.

Remember: possessing a broad vocabulary is only as good as
those who have to interpret what you say.
If you talk above them, they will resent it, and you will be insulting them. If you talk beneath them, they will pick up on that too, and
feel you are slighting them.
You have to take a path of commonly used terms for most of us,
usually 4th grade level usage is pretty safe.
Don't laugh, this is really true.
Unless you are addressing a bunch of Ph.Ds in nuclear physics,
where every other sentence is a formula, or a sub-formula.

Thats my message, good luck.



Donald H.Sites
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Answer 4

As you told that you want to prepare for your mba entrance exam so,you need to go through the various competitive exam book and magazines that would help you out.various options are available with you.
Many CSR books available at market at a reasonable price have many recruitment papers with solution which have approximately the same pattern.This is sortting out my problem ,hope this will also help you out.Moreover learning few words from dictionary everyday for just about five minutesand jorting them down in the form of a pargraph will also help you a lot.

Answer 5

A fun way is to check out a vocabulary book at the library, or buy a college level vocabulary book. Every day, choose a few words that you want to learn and use them as much as you can when speaking or writing. You may not used them all in everyday language, but when tested, you'll remember a lot of them.

Answer 6

read books.. thats the only way out.. fiction, newspapers, read anything that u can get ur hands on.. it'll also improve ur knowledge..
everytime u come across a new word, note it down, later find out its meaning n write it down in a separate bk kept for writing such meanings
try to memorise the word n its meaning at that moment.
then every 3 days or once a week, go through all the words n recollect their meanings. do this periodically
in addition, u can search for new words in the dictionary
try to use the words uve learnt in ur daily lang.
try to read british classics.. their word usage is excellent.

Answer 7

The painless way is to read a lot, and not newspapers - try books, especially those written by the masters like Shakespeare (in his case - plays), Camus, Tolkein, Rathbone etc. Make sure it is a wide variety.

Answer 8

I would suggest reading good books. Not today's fiction. Try some current biographical works as well as old classics written many years ago. You might also read books related to a particular field of study written by professionals. Again, non-fiction. Good luck!

Answer 9

u get books for preparing for these papers.read lot of books not comic books but autobiography something meaningful.read newspapers and make it a point to write down the new words that u come across and refer a dictionary for them. use flash cards

Answer 10

U has to read newspapers,books which should have to some louder because in this way your pronunciation also get good and concentrate to make sentences with meaning full.