Enhance Your Vocabulary: A 7-Day Challenge

Strengthening Vocabulary for a Week

I asked ChatGPT to come up with a way to help strengthen my vocabulary.

Here are the results:

7-Day Writing & Vocabulary Plan

Day 1 – Observation & Description

• Writing: Write a 200-word description of a room, park, or street. Focus on sights, sounds, smells.
• Vocabulary: Note 5 new descriptive words from your reading or writing.

Day 2 – Sentence Variation

• Writing: Take 5 simple sentences and rewrite each in 3 different ways, using different structures or vocabulary.
• Vocabulary: Learn 5 words and use each in a new sentence.

Day 3 – Dialogue Practice

• Writing: Write a short dialogue (150 words) between two characters with conflicting goals.
• Vocabulary: Focus on emotion words (e.g., frustration, glee, apprehensive).

Day 4 – Reading Analysis

• Activity: Read a short story or article. Pick 10 words you don’t know. Analyze sentence structure and tone.
• Writing: Write a 150-word summary or reflection in your own words.

Day 5 – Word Expansion

• Activity: Take a short paragraph you wrote and replace 5 common words with stronger vocabulary words.
• Vocabulary: Learn 5 new advanced words.

Day 6 – Story Mini-Challenge

• Writing: Write a 300-word scene where tension builds. Focus on showing, not telling.
• Vocabulary: Identify adjectives and verbs in your story that could be more precise. Replace them.

Day 7 – Revision & Reflection

• Writing: Revise one piece from the week. Focus on clarity, vocabulary, and sentence flow.
• Vocabulary: Review all 25–30 words from the week and use them in 1–2 sentences each.

Will you take part in this challenge?