Despite his initial reluctance to enter the teaching profession, the author – an alumnus of several universities in Burma, Canada, the U.S. and Britain, accepted a position with Rangoon University’s English Department, and went on to make a 40 year career of teaching ESL and English for Professional Purposes at the university and community college levels in Burma and Canada. He has now made good use of his diverse disciplinary studies to research and format an advanced vocabulary reference list designed to enable the advanced learner to level his language playing field in his interactions with the native speaker.