Expanding Your Vocabulary in English
Swift Tutors Top 5 Tips
- Use a thesaurus.
- Devise your own list of synonyms and antonyms.
- Create your own personalized dictionary or word bank to use when writing.
- Write regularly.
- Read often – read a diverse range of reading matter.
- Try out the skill. Write the opening to story or a description based on one of the two images below. Use words from the vocabulary chart to help you incorporate more specific and adventurous vocabulary.
The Diver
Rapid River Challenge
The Adventure Vocabulary List
| forest/labyrinth | mountain | lake/hot spring | horizon | ugliest | eerie | massive |
| miniature | freezing | followed | torrential | whispered | missing | island |
| castle/maze | sand dune/oasis | hunter | scattered | fire/ablaze | lightning | treasure |
| battling | tempest | camping | vanished | blizzard | stranger | locked |
| chased | wilderness/desert | torch | escape | immense | scrawny | filthy |
| shouted | cave/cavern | whispered | moped/speedboat | dazzle | ancient | treehouse |
| arid | eventually | dusk | twilight | meanwhile | shattered | chilly |
| ruins | abandoned | shaft | encrusted | fastened/twisted | jammed | unsightly |