<p>“The whole point is that you shouldn’t make it a goal to memorize x number of words per day. You should be looking up words you don’t understand in your school novels, the newspaper, etc. When you’re bored or waiting in line for something, pull out a vocab list and look over some new words. You may come to enjoy it.”</p>
<p>“Test Prep by means of reading a quirky magazine like the New Yorker, which also has great vocab words, is a much more thorough. You’re more likely to retain the words you learn, and more importantly, you’ll actually have some fun while you’re at it (who doesn’t love the New Yorker?). If reading newspapers or magazines isn’t your thing, read translations of great foreign literature! Translators tend to exercise a large vocabulary in their translations as words are their “thing.” Memorizing “hit words” is not nearly as important as practicing the deconstruction of words or the determination of meaning from context.”</p>