Tip #4: Use the power of phrases
Memorizing phrases is a really powerful tool to help you learn advanced English quickly. Phrases teach you how to use words and put them together. Here are some of the reasons:
You can learn more than one word at a time. For example, by memorizing the PhraseMix lesson, "The jury found her 'not guilty'" you can learn the words "jury", "find", and "not guilty".
You can learn which words go well together. For example, if you just learn the word "impression", you might not know that the verb "leave" goes well with it: “A limp handshake leaves a bad impression.” And although you know what "pleasant" means, you might not know how common the phrase "pleasantly surprised" is.
Lots of phrases have their own meaning that you can't predict based on the individual words. There are phrasal verbs such as "put in", "bring up", "think over", and so on. There are also idioms like "a fine line between __ and __".