dia wants to improve her _. her creative writing teacher suggest that she read genres of books that she usually finds dull

well if it's dull books, shouldn't it be vocabulary. if it were concentrated she would be bored and her mind would wander elsewhere. but if it were vocabulary she would still find it dull. As if it were a dictionary, nobody wants to spend 5 hours reading every word in the dictionary

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