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Learn more words. Get word lists from Barron, Kaplan, and Princeton review and memorize. Use other dictionaries like Webster, Encarta, dictionary.com for reference as many of the definitions from these review books are somewhat concise. Group the words by definition together to help rote. Read the New Yorker as some of the words show up there. Roots help somewhat but after memorizing 3k words, most of the unknown ones can be derived by prior knowledge unless they're esoteric nouns...
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