The best way to learn new words is by reading. Memorization only can help a certain extent, maybe you won't know how to apply the word in the correct context. As you go from children's to teen books, the wording becomes more sophisticated. When you start to read adult literature, there is no end. There is many fields of knowledge, and every field has it own pertaining vocabulary. In other words, as you specialize, you have to understand and use the correct terminology. For general vernacular, the more words you know, the most expressive you can get. You can convey your thoughts to others in a better way.
As for High School and College students of English, there are many difficult words that sound the same. These appear very often in standardized tests, most of test prep books emphasize this point. They try to confuse you, to see if you know the difference between each word, their meaning and sound. This is important because as you communicate in the real world with other people, you need to speak and write correctly.
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to influence, to pretend (verbs); feeling (noun) |
| effect |
a result; being in operation (nouns); to make happen (verb) |
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that place, in that place |
| their |
belonging to them |
| they're |
contraction of they are | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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items that generate income; the city that is the seat of the government; an upper case letter |
| capitol |
a building housing the seat of the government | |
