"English Vocabulary in Use Advanced" is useful and can help you expand and improve your vocabulary.
However, I'd like to recommend other books that can help you achieve your goal:
- Grammar and Vocabulary for Cambridge Advanced and Proficiency
(Richard Side and Guy Wellman)
- Vocabulary Building 1-2-3-4 (vocabulary building workbook series by Betty Kirkpatrick MA)
- Test Your Vocabulary 1-2-3-4-5 (a series of vocabulary practice books by Peter Watcyn-Jones)
- Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases (by Grenville Kleiser)
- Boost Your Vocabulary (by Chris Barker)
- More Than Words: Vocabulary for Upper Intermediate to Advanced Students Bk. 1
(by Jeremy Harmer)
- Test your English Vocabulary in Use Upper-Intermediate by Michael McCarthy, Felicity O'Dell, Paperback: 152 pages, Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Compelling Conversations: Questions and Quotations on Timeless Topics - An Engaging ESL Textbook for Advanced Students, by Eric H. Roth, Toni Aberson (Paperback)
- Essential Idioms in English: Phrasal Verbs and Collocations, Fifth Edition by Robert J. Dixson, Paperback: 276 pages Publisher: Pearson ESL