Section outline

Main course page

    • Building vocabulary requires dedicated study. Use the below dictionaries and vocabulary exercises links to help you.

      Also, check out the Tutorial on how to build your vocabulary - this offers a way to increase your vocabulary in an enjoyable way! (Look in the box called Tutorial-Build Your Vocabulary!)

      Dictionaries

      • helps you find the meanings of words and draw connections to associated words. You can easily see the meaning of each by simply placing the mouse cursor over it.
      • a good resource for students who are stuck in the rut of using the same words and phrases repeatedly in their writing. 
    • You can enter an English word to see its collocations, each with an example sentences from the corpus (collection).

      • see the overall frequency for each word
      • for each word you can also find the 20-30 most frequent collocates (nearby words) and see 200 or more concordance lines (words in context)
    • OneLook's reverse dictionary lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept. Your description can be a few words, a sentence, a question, or even just a single word. 

    • Exercises

      • The Academic Word List (AWL) is divided into 10 sublists of word families. Each of these sublists contains 60 words, except for sublist 10, which contains thirty words. 
      • When studying the sublists, you should also attempt to learn the various derivations (the verb, noun, adjective and adverb forms + variants) for the word families given.
      • over 500 gap-fill exercises to learn
      • review over 1500 items of general vocabulary in English
      • from Grammar-teacher.com
      • instant feedback for every practice question you attempt
      • optional competition aspect