Whats the best book/website to learn root words to help build vocab for GRE?
Take a look at: Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know by E. D. Hirsch, Jr. It’s not designed for vocab improvement. But I find things that ARE designed for that purpose to be so boring that I don’t get anything out of them. I get most of my vocabulary by reading and listening to things that are interesting to me. I used to use Hirsch’s book in conversational English classes for advanced non-native English speakers. A lot of the hard part of “language” comes from not knowing all the assumed “world knowledge” of the other party. These students (librarians actually) read a lot of english. Most of what they missed was not in grammar or vocabulary but in “implict information” that the author could assume all his/her readers would certainly know. But cultures change over time and making such asumptions crossing cultures is not wise. One of the most useful things we could do while “praticing” conversation was try to fill these cultural literacy gaps. It was fun too! All this is
