Expanding and improving your vocabulary will create positive changes in your life. Your conversational style will become more fluid and creative. You’ll find it easier to communicate in your professional life, and be more confident in speaking with a wide range of people, from co-workers to peers in other companies to managers and investors. Being able to express yourself clearly, using exactly the right words for any situation, will benefit your career and your personal life. The fact that you’re reading this vocabulary improvement blog is a propitious sign that bodes well for your future success.

Propitious means favorable or promising, a good omen and a sign of a good result to come. Some synonyms of propitious are auspicious and advantageous.

Example 1: With the decline in the housing market, it does not seem to be a very propitious time to start a career in real estate.

Example 2: The south-facing slopes of the coastal hills in California create a propitious climate for growing many varieties of grapes.

Example 3: Switching from paper to e-mail memos had the propitious effect of reducing the company’s monthly costs for office supplies and recycling services.

There are many things that you can do to increase your chances of success in vocabulary improvement study:

• When you’re learning a word, practice saying it out loud, or use the Ultimate Vocabulary system to listen to the word being correctly pronounced.
• Write the word down several times to make sure you know the correct spelling. By engaging your hand as well as your ear and eye, you’ll help lock the word into your brain.
• Create sample sentences using the word. Learning how to use a word in context is key to remembering and correctly using it in conversation. The Ultimate Vocabulary system gives you dozens of examples of vocabulary words used in different contexts.

Good luck, and happy studying!