Amazing but true! The New Zealander Nigel Richards apparently memorized the entire French dictionary to be able to win the "Francophone World Scrabble Championship!" 

Does he now speak French? Well... according to Yves Brenez, the vice president of the Belgian Scrabble federation and organizer of the championship, “Nigel will say ‘bonjour’ with an accent and he can also give the score in French, but that’s all."

So memorizing words is not the way to go if you are looking to boost your vocabulary to a new level! Plus think of how hard it is to memorize words especially if they are so different from those of your mother tongue language!

I have personally tested this because when I was a young student in the US, studying for my SAT's, I remember I used to sit for hours and hours trying to remember super complicated words that honestly I probably forgot immediately after having taken the test!

Many of my students are in this same situation!

The question that comes up very often is "Ho...