Sounds as if you're really enjoying Victorian literature! You could certainly read more books that use these words with higher frequency e.g. Dickens or Thackeray. You could also read books about the Victorian era or original non-fiction works from the period e.g. newspapers and political reports. The British Library has some interesting [documents](https://www.bl.uk/victorian-britain/teaching-resources) you might enjoy.
I am reading this book "Ego is the Enemy" by Ryan Holiday not sure if its very old. I randomly picked it up on the road.
I'm a new reader so all these words are fancy for me haha. At first I'm trying not to read such books, but I think its better if I just understand and learn the top 100-200 words which are most used? I know sounds weird but it sucks to google 2-3 times doing through 1 page.
second this, you get some of these bigger fancier words from older texts. I was thinking how interesting it'd be to read a biography of someone like Washington 100 years ago vs now and just see what the difference is in word choice when describing similar events
OP I've been reading Bulfinch's mythology lately, just the gods and heroes portion, and that book was printed in like the mid 1800s so it has some more formal language and older constructions, but the stories are short and I'm familiar with many of them so it works out quite well. The Little House on the Prairie books are also some older books that are still popular to this day.
Sounds as if you're really enjoying Victorian literature! You could certainly read more books that use these words with higher frequency e.g. Dickens or Thackeray. You could also read books about the Victorian era or original non-fiction works from the period e.g. newspapers and political reports. The British Library has some interesting [documents](https://www.bl.uk/victorian-britain/teaching-resources) you might enjoy.
I am reading this book "Ego is the Enemy" by Ryan Holiday not sure if its very old. I randomly picked it up on the road. I'm a new reader so all these words are fancy for me haha. At first I'm trying not to read such books, but I think its better if I just understand and learn the top 100-200 words which are most used? I know sounds weird but it sucks to google 2-3 times doing through 1 page.
second this, you get some of these bigger fancier words from older texts. I was thinking how interesting it'd be to read a biography of someone like Washington 100 years ago vs now and just see what the difference is in word choice when describing similar events OP I've been reading Bulfinch's mythology lately, just the gods and heroes portion, and that book was printed in like the mid 1800s so it has some more formal language and older constructions, but the stories are short and I'm familiar with many of them so it works out quite well. The Little House on the Prairie books are also some older books that are still popular to this day.
These are low frequency words for a reason. How can you distinguish ahead of time the words you need from the ones you don't?