Vocabulary Builder

A Brilliant Mind Reviewed  

One of the first things to help improve your vocabulary is to get a good basic vocabulary builder.  A great book that does just this is A Brilliant Mind: Proven Ways to Increase Your Brainpower by Frank Minirth.  This book describes in detail how learning more words can help give you more brainpower.  It takes a comprehensive look by highlighting the point that some of the brightest people throughout history and huge vocabularies and brings it to the present by illustrating how neuroplasticity makes this possible.

The book is an easy to read format that you could quickly finish in a day or weekend as the total pages o the paperback are under 200 pages.   However, the main value from the book is in the listing of vocabulary words and short definitions to learn.  Not only is this information helpful as short definitions are much easier to remember, the words are also broken down into different categories which makes learning faster and more efficient.  Plus, he even has a section for how to determine words meaning by using the components of the word.  His categories on common Latin and Greek prefixes and roots help give you a better understanding of a word's meaning and also a greater appreciation of how our English language has evloved over time.

Final Analysis 

Not only would this book work great for any aspiring student taking the SAT or the GRE, it would also be useful for just about everyone.   Spending a little of time each day, it is easy to see how you could rapidly increase your word knowledge.   For this reason, I recommend the purchase of this book for anyone trying to increase their vocabulary or looking for another way to build new neurons.