Building Vocabulary Skills

This app provides thesaurus, collocation and word usage dictionary for you to develop vocabulary skills.

● Thesaurus
Do you need to find a synonym for a word or to paraphrase a sentence ?

Look up "because of" in this thesaurus and you will find "on account of", "as a result of", "as a consequence of", "owning to", "due to", "thanks to" etc.

You want to replace "stem from" with other phrase. Look up "stem from" and you will find "have its origin in", "arise from", "originate from", "derive from", "come from", "emanate from", "be caused by", "be brought about by"

You want to find synonymous phrases for the verb "consider". Search in the app and you will find "take into consideration", "take into account", "give thought to", etc.

Containing over 14000 entries, the thesaurus will help you find synonyms and antonyms of a word or phrase that commonly used in English.

● Collocation
- This collocation dictionary teaches you how to combine words with words to form phrases
- It also teaches you how to combine words into structures to form clauses and sentences
- It shows you important vocabulary and grammatical differences between American and British English.
- It gives you plenty of examples that can serve as models for your own use of English.
- Some of these examples are quotations from works of American and British literature.

● Word Usage
Do you know what is the difference between "among" and "between", "award" and "reward", "gender" and "sex", "figure" and "number", "make of" and "make from", "excerpt" and "extract", "exotic" and "esoteric", "famed" and "famous", "final" and "finale" ?

Do you often mistake "venal" with "venial", "effective" with "efficient", "eminent" with "imminent", "epidemic" with "endemic", "factitious" with "fictitious", "forbear" with "forebear", "forego" and "forgo", "required" and "prescribed", "comprehensible" and "comprehensive" ?

The word usage dictionary contains over 3000 entries of commonly misused words, words that commonly mistaken with other words, words that can be used exchangeably, words that have contrast meaning, words that have similar meaning.

● User-defined list
- Create your own list
- Add a word into a list

● Basic features:
- Bookmark an entry
- Search for an entry
- Learn vocabulary daily with Words of the day

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