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Hot List - Improve your Vocabulary
Introduction: addition to using books and magazines to find out about this topic, why not use the power of the Internet. Visit these sites to get you started.
The Internet Web sites:
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/ This is a very useful and authentic website to begin with. For vocabulary do visit the "Words in the News"
- VOA Special English - Words and their Stories - American English Website that contains all aspects of English Language. This series is specially good for beginners where words are explained in a lucid and clear tone.
- VocabSushi -Vocabsushi is a superbly designed site with tools like MP3 clips (for pronunciations), word games, offline quizzes in PDF, etc.
- busyteacher.org One of the best collection of lessons, printable worksheets and audio/video lessons encompassing all the skills of English language.
- Confusing Words -Confusing Words is a collection of 3210 words that are troublesome to readers and writers. Words are grouped according to the way they are most often confused or misused.
- Lexipedia - Lexipedia is an online visual semantic network with dictionary and thesaurus reference functionality
- Vocab Grabber - VocabGrabber analyzes any text you're interested in, generating lists of the most useful vocabulary words and showing you how those words are used in context.
- Wordia - Wordia is a free games-based learning platform - built on the foundations of a dictionary - that blends word-based learning games with interactive video vocabulary.
- GraphWords -It's an free English online thesaurus that helps you find the meanings of words and show connections among associated words. You can easily see the meaning of each by simply placing the mouse cursor over it.
- VocabGenii - VocabGenii is a free online vocabulary building game. Each round is only 90 seconds, and you can play anytime, anywhere you have Internet access.