While studying vocabulary lists is certainly a helpful, productive step toward increasing your lexicon, the best approach is to underline words you do not know when reading.
Pick up any worthwhile journal of current events (New York Times, Economist, Wall Street Journal), and you will discover as many words as you need to know. Journalists have a knack for picking the right word for the right occasion, so this is a great way to not only learn a new word but also understand how to use it correctly.
In this new addition to the Academic Approach blog, words will appear in context with a link to the original piece. Do you know what these words mean? Can you guess from the context in which they are used. Test yourself and then look them up to see if you're right. This is an exercise that you should do on a daily basis for the rest of your life.
Great Words from Frank Rich's Column
If the next step in this declension is less face time for Palin on Fox News, then we’ll have proof that pigs can fly.
What they said — and didn’t say — from the CPAC podium not only shows a political opposition running on empty but also dramatizes the remarkable leadership opportunity their fecklessness has handed to the incumbent president in post-shellacking Washington.
There was one serious speech at CPAC — an economic colloquy delivered that night by Mitch Daniels, the Indiana governor much beloved by what remains of mainstream conservative punditry.
The party leadership is no less cowed by that majority today than it was pre-Tucson.
As we’ve learned from his track record both in the 2008 campaign and in the White House, he sometimes coasts at these junctures or lapses into a pro forma bipartisanship that amounts, for all practical purposes, to inertia.
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