Good ways to expand your vocabulary

1. Read.
2. Sign up to receive Word of the Day emails from Merriam-Webster. Click on Word of the Day above and scroll down to the bottom of the window where it says "Subscribe to the Learner's Word of the Day email."
3. Look up three new words in a dictionary every day, and use them right away – in speech or in writing.
4. Use Facebook or Twitter to teach your favorite new words to your friends.
5. Take online vocabulary quizzes. Search for "vocabulary quiz" and you'll find sites with quizzes.
6. Try to avoid very common words like do, make, get, and thing in your writing, and use more descriptive words instead. For example, instead of writing this:

  The director did a sequel of the movie to take advantage of its popularity. 

write this:
  The director created a sequel of the movie to take advantage of its popularity.