It is given that human languages are not similar to each other. There are lexically rich languages, where words can have a wide variety of meanings and where their meaning is directly related to the meanings expressed by such a language, such as English. On the other hand, there are other languages characterized by extensive precision, in which a wide variety of different words correspond to multiple levels of meanings with which the world can be perceived. The Greek language belongs to this last category, and its lexical richness is where its beauty and difficulty lie.
It is thus understood that speech production in the Greek language is directly related to the range of vocabulary contained within it. This observation is particularly critical for secondary education, and not only because of the increased difficulty of language courses.
Therefore, it was deemed necessary to write a book that emphasizes lexical exercises, with the objective of combating linguistic poverty and expressive inflexibility. A supplementary book for language courses, written in such a way that students can use it for self-study and teachers can use it as a support in their difficult task.
It should be noted that within the framework of certain exercises, the interpretation of "rare" or "difficult" words is requested. Such a thing was deemed necessary, as sometimes the requirements of entrance exams to tertiary education make use of a vocabulary that is unusual for students.
It is obvious that in a work of this nature, it is not possible to provide all the limits of semantic variation of words. To address possible observations, it needs to be clarified that the interpretation of a dictionary specifically written for the data of secondary education, and therefore possibly the most valid for such a purpose, was preferred: this is the "Dictionary of Modern Greek" by the Institute of Modern Greek Studies of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki [Manolis Triantafyllidis Foundation]. Finally, I would like to particularly thank Professor Martina Hirschberger of the University of Düsseldorf, who, by adopting my first book (Original Syntactic Markings in Ancient Greek) in the Seminar of Classical Philology, gave me the strength to complete this second work that you are holding in your hands.