A large vocabulary is essential to our success as public speakers and presenters.
No! Not to impress people -- but to enrich our mind with new and varied, and clear concise to explain things to others. A continually growing vocabulary will help us to do this.
Such concise words are always the best way to reach the hearts and minds of others, whether we are speaking to one person or hundreds, although the complexity of our language will naturally depend on who we are speaking to.
This conciseness has nothing or little to do with the complexity or length of a word. Sometimes a very simple, short word is not concise. It can fall short of describing things clearly and leave people confused and wondering -- whereas as more complex and longer word and create instant understanding.
Sometimes, too, you find that to make yourself clear you might have to rephrase something so the larger a storehouse of words you have to easier this will be.
But we want to have a rich storehouse of concise words to enrich our own thinking with stimulating ideas that the words will create in our minds.
So keep building that vocabulary with the help of some excellent books or courses that focus on the vocabulary used by specific professions as well as your general vocabulary with the help of the Verbal Advantage which comes in both audio and printed forms.
Of course there are numerous other vocabulary building courses and books out there. Another one you will find very helpful is The Power of Verbal Intelligence by Tony Buzan.
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