Apps to improve vocabulary

How to Improve Vocabulary easily?

The best way to increase vocabulary is practice reading and listening regularly. 

At least learn a word a day or listen to someone speak for a few minutes in the language you wish to learn. 

There are several expert developed exercises and tips, which can guide you properly about how to improve vocabulary in English just in days. 

Remember that, learning never ends, and so always seek to learn new words.

Since today's world is a "Mobile" world , it makes more sense to learn through mobile technology.

Here are a few apps which can help you improve vocabulary. 

1. Vocabulary.com

This combined learning tool and game allows you to either learn and retain words you choose or words the app chooses for you. Vocabulary.com claims to use sophisticated algorithms to customize questions and exercises just for you. 

2. PowerVocab

PowerVocab is a definition matching game similar to this quiz currently popular on Facebook, or to Free Rice. Players match words against multiple-choice definitions with the added elements of competing against other players and playing against the clock. (Android only.)

3. Magoosh Vocabulary Builder

This quiz app is similar to PowerVocab but is specifically aimed at improving scores on the GRE (Graduate Record Exam) used for entry to graduate schools. Magoosh is an online prep company that helps graduate school applicants do better on the GRE and other exams.

4. A Word A Day Widget

From the people who brought you PowerVocab, A Word A Day Widget puts a new vocabulary word on your device's home screen every day. Android only, but for iOS, try Word of the Day Widget.

5. 7 Little Words

This fun little vocabulary game gives you seven definitions and tiles with combinations of two or three letters on them that you have to arrange into the seven words. You learn as you narrow down your choices from words you do know to words you don't. I'll admit to having played many rounds of 7 Little Words myself. 

6. Word to Word

This clever word association game offers you lists of words and challenges you to find the connections between them. They could be synonyms or antonyms, related words (such as "scurvy" and "liver") or elements in common phrases. Word to Word is simple to play but looks addictive to me.

7. Words with Friends

This highly successful game from Zynga (the company behind Farmville) has been around for years and still appeals. (I'm a recent convert myself.) Because the only way to win is to find uncommon words, Words with Friends forces you to learn new words although not ones you're likely to find on a GRE exam. Plus, it's a nice way to stay in touch with distant friends. Available for Windows Phone as well as iOS and Android.

Vocabulary : Describing Qualities of People

It was after a long time I met a friend. He was talking about his journeys and his new boss.

While talking about his boss he exclaimed  " My boss is very Talkative person ! He can Talk to any one about anything." 

I realized what he was trying to say but I also realized that he is using the wrong words. Among friends it is OK to make such errors but it becomes embarrassing when it happens in work environment. 

One might lose face or even end up touching pain points by using the wrong word in the wrong context, and that is exactly where vocabulary comes into picture.

Vocabulary is essential to express ideas in the right way to the right extent and to create a right impact. Yet many a times, we are not able to use the  right word but in a right context.

Some words have positive connotation whereas some words may have similar meaning but a negative connotation.

Below are a few words which can help us describe a persons qualities in positive and negative contexts.

Positive Negative Active Exquisite Pretty Awkward Hideous Ugly Adept Fair Ravishing Bizarre Homely Ungainly Adroit Fascinating Robust Cadaverous Horrible Unkempt Agile Good-looking Shapely Clumsy Incongruous Unmanly Attractive Graceful Skillful Coarse Invidious Unwomanly Beautiful Handsome Spirited Decrepit Loathsome Weak Brawny Hardy Spruce Effeminate Odious Charming Immaculate Stalwart Emaciated Repellent Comely Lively Strapping Feeble Repugnant Dainty Lovely Strong Frail Repulsive Dapper Manly Sturdy Gawky Sickly Delicate Muscular Virile Ghastly Slovenly Dexterous Neat Vivacious Graceless Spare Elegant Nimble Winsome Grotesque Thin

Words for impact