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Word Power Made Easy. It was the text that we used for vocabulary during my Sophomore year and I've since used it while teaching classess of my own. It's a fantastic resource that teaches you vocabulary by giving you a solid base in the root words that make up our language.

Here you go : Word Power Made Easy

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Great! Lots of other good, similar things in xkcd. As it calls itself, it's "A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language."

I'm 44 and remember the Texas Sesquicentennial in 1986. I also had an 8th grade English teacher who really pushed etymology and used Word Power Made Easy (I should order some for my kids!). So when I took a "Greek and Latin Elements in English" class in college (for fun!), it was a good refresher.

> Can someone guide me how to improve my grammar/verbal/vocab for GMAT.

Word Power Made Easy

Elements of Style by Strunk and White is an excellent grammar book. You didn't mention a grammar problem but the architecture of your writing is important when you start out. Ideas is the next step.

Word Power Made Easy is a great vocab book that got be started on words.

I look up every word I don't know. Time consuming.

If there is another language used in your family or by your ancestors learn that language. It will just expand your mind and not just your vocabulary.

One language is not enough.

I used to feel this way. I luckily had an awesome high school teacher that made us study this book. In my 20s I started reading a bunch of in Henry Miller. I remember the word "ennui" killing me. Simple answer, look them up. The worst part was looking up these words I didn't know and then having to speak them, as I had no idea how to pronounce them. I just turned 31 today, and I still don't know a lot. Don't feel embarrassed.

Accept: from Latin acceptare, frequentative of accipere ‘take something to oneself’, from ad- ‘to’ + capere ‘take’.

Except: from Latin except- ‘taken out’, from the verb excipere, from ex- ‘out of’ + capere ‘take’.

If you know a little etymology (the study of the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history), you can make educated guesses at what a word means.

Try a book like this:

http://www.amazon.com/Word-Power-Made-Norman-Lewis/dp/067174190X

Another way you can try and remember the difference is like this:

accept- acknowledge

Her mother accepted her daughter's apostasy.

At least her mother, acknowledges that her daughter was an apostate.

except - exclude

Her mother could forgive any sin except apostasy.

Her mother excluded her from the family gatherings as she was an apostate.

http://www.amazon.com/Word-Power-Made-Norman-Lewis/dp/067174190X is a good book to improve in this area