Make your conversations stimulating.

4 tips to spice up your vocabulary:

1.  Keep it simple. Resist the urge to show off with all the fancy words you know. You might think this impresses others, but it does not. You probably sound conceited too. No one wants to talk to someone without understanding half of what they are saying. Your point will probably be misunderstood or lost altogether.
2.  Clip the excess. Don’t go out of the way to always explain things. Adding plenty of details will just bore and/or confuse those you are talking to. Make it general but specific enough for people to get your point. And never be vague. Just because you want to trim the fat doesn’t mean you can take away important details.
3.  Drop the clichés. They have lost whatever substance they once had a long time ago. They might work on someone who has never heard them before, but those don’t come along very often. What they do sound like is empty and meaningless. They never deliver the message you wanted.
4.  Replace your old words. As time goes by, we develop a somewhat fixed set of words that we use often. They are always there in whatever we say and read. It could get to a point where people can pretty much guess what we’ll say. Try to replace those words with others that are just as simple and give the same meaning.