How to improve your English vocabulary?

Question

IT education

Lately I started reading fiction in English and suddenly found that my vocabulary is not sufficient.
Words are completely enough for everyday communication, for communication at work, for reading professional literature and even for watching most films, but for serious fiction books - it turned out to be terribly few)
In general, tell me a good learning software (paid or free, it doesn’t matter) aimed specifically at memorization of English words and expressions. Criteria:
- My English vocabulary is about 7-10 thousand words. Accordingly, the program must support dictionaries of 15-20+ thousand in size
- there must be not only words and translation, but also meanings, examples of use, pronunciation
- periodic repetitions for memorization
- must work under iOS or OSX. Well, or online.
For a while, I sat tightly on Lingua-leo in free and paid modes. But it seemed that the functionality is redundant and too much superfluous. In addition, too often there are repetitions of words that you have known for a long time.

Answer 1

Long before I took IELTS, I simply consumed as much English language content as I could. I threw every unfamiliar word into the translator, and tried to put it into practice somehow. Even now, when I freely understand speech by ear, almost any, and I also communicate freely, and sometimes I google words for which I don’t know the translation.
Just read as many English-language resources as possible, and translate each word. Write an example using . Stupidly cramming you will not achieve anything.
I have run myself every month and run on this test.
testyourvocab.com
I have 12 thousand words now.

Answer 2

You meet an unfamiliar word:
You create a card (on paper, in a computer).
And repeat this card regularly. Science believes that 60 times is enough to remember a word forever, or at least for a long time.

Answer 3

Only through spaced repetition, for example Anki.
There is a lot of good information about this method here.

Answer 4

Does the method of reading Ilya Frank work? Does anyone use? In order not to force yourself to memorize words.