What are the best strategies for learning new vocabulary?

Learning words out of context can be daunting and often less rewarding. This is why employing contextual learning is one of the best strategies. Reading is a brilliant way of doing this; whether it's novels, newspapers, or educational texts, they all provide invaluable exposure to new words, illustrating how they are used in sentences, which often provides clues to meanings. More so, language is dynamic, and reading a variety of sources helps you understand the versatile usage of vocabulary.