Have you ever reached your limit of acquiring new words?

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Hi folks!

There is no denying that words are important. Especially new/high-level words. The more advanced text you read/want to produce, the more appropriate words you need to know. When learning new words, I try to restrict myself to 8-10 words a day. It seems to be OK. But today I've added to my ANKI deck 56 words and expressions, which made me think - is it OK to learn that many words? Will it help me or just confuse?

What about you? Do you push yourself, have you explored your limits is this area? Or just don't pay attention to that.


(as usual, you're welcome to point out my mistakes)
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how did you come across those words and phrases?
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Truth be told, it looks like I completely stopped deliberately learning new words about a year ago after passing CPE.
I doubt I reached the limit you are talking about.
My total score at vocabulary.com is approaching 12M. If the statistics offered by this site is to be believed, I may claim to have mastered 5548 words, having spent about 136 hours in total.
The last time I used this site was about a year ago, though.

The thing is, how many of these words would be found in your linguistic output (i.e. speaking and writing)?
What is the amount of words, idioms, phrasal verbs, and collocations that you deem sufficient for your purposes?
Do you need words like 'quiescence', 'zany', 'avocation', 'cornucopia' or many others that may be found in my writing?)
It is nice to be able to claim to have swallowed a thesaurus, but do you really need it?
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FPlay, reading the book "Wild", watching TV show with John Oliver and list of CAE words. As the words strung out during the day, I think I mastered them well.

paveltashkinov, it's cool I think - 136 hours isn't that much if you factor in 5 thousand words mastered.

As for usefulness, I think I met word "zane" yesterday (and ignored) and cornucoia I met a few times before.
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QwestDay,
As for usefulness, I think I met word "zane" yesterday (and ignored) and cornucoia I met a few times before.
So, the rate of you encountering those fancy words is not as frequent as it could have been if they were really useful, right?)
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Cornucopia is the name of a relic artifact in HoMM3. So some people may encounter this word quite a few times.
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paveltashkinov, yeah, they're not so popular. But they help to fully understand the meaning.
Dragon27, that's why I know it ))
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rate can't be frequent ..
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tourist, what can it be? Low?
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High or low for example ..
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tourist,
Now that I've re-read it, I see. Indeed, this turn of phrase is weird. Thanks for pointing out my mistake!
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