According to a study conducted in 2006, 11 million U.S. grownups about 1/20 – have bad reading skills which are so bad; they can’t even read a magazine. That statistic says a lot of shocking statements, and one of them is that people have a very poor vocabulary. Improving your vocabulary is not about learning a new word, or idiom, it’s about learning the word, and learning how to use it in everyday speech. That one word comes with other meanings which might lead to other ideas. As a result, your vocabulary widens, and you develop a new way of everyday speech. What could help is increasing your reading time, and doing a lot of crossword puzzles. They are proven methods which work, even for me. But you don’t have to do something you don’t like, like crossword puzzles, like instead, you could try reading a book and writing a summery about it using simple words, then replace the simple words with more sophisticated one, and keep doing it until you're used to it and it's a snap. Despite how this may sound to you it's very fun, not as fun as going to an amusement park, but as fun as watching TV, also, just as hypnotizing.