Do not expect the speed of learning #9,000 ("jurisdiction" or "plausible") to be as fast as learning #100 ("eat" or "house"). Pace yourself.

for a specific purpose, such as academic writing or conversational business English? Headwords of the First 10,000 Words – 1st 1000

Passive reading will only store words in your short-term memory. To move them to long-term memory, you must force your brain to produce them.