Even for advanced students, it is rather usual to record new vocabulary in lists and hope that these lists help remember all the new words. However, lists don’t work for everyone... mostly for nobody. One alternative is to make a mind map, a picture which links together the ideas in a topic. At the centre you set the main idea, and all the related ideas lead from it, springing as branches, just like a map. This way, you integrate the most effective ways of recording vocabulary (lexical sets, word families, collocations, useful chunks, similar types of words, etc) into one productive and visual item.
As we've been working with this topic, WORK, you could try and create a map for the topic. I offer you a lead in, so that you can continue exploring and widening this idea. Once you have done, I'll provide a complete map as an example.
Please, check if this kind of maps works and, if so, try doing this with every lexical area. You could build up a nice set of vocabulary maps to help you improve your English.
Then only (and I mean only) once you have finished building your own diagram, check the one I propose...
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