Having a broader vocabulary is useful for business, school, personal, and social situations. Whenever you need to express yourself, having a wider choice of words makes your task easier and the final product more relevant in a number of ways. With more words at your disposal, you will free up mental resources to generate clear, concise, and accurate written articles and improve your spoken presentations – whether formal or informal.

The first thing to do is to remember that you do have homework for at least four or five days a week. Homework isn’t just specific tasks given to you by your teacher. Complete all assignments given by the teacher. This seems obvious; however, sometimes students feel that if an assignment isn’t going to “count” toward their grade, they should skip it. Also, if it is only worth a small percentage, they think it isn’t worth doing. Nothing could be further from the truth. Any additional r...