Thursday, October 13, 2011

Catch of The Day - Vocabulary.com - 10/13/2011

 

Vocabulary.com touts itself as "the quickest, most intelligent way to improve your vocabulary" by combining an adaptive learning system, The Challenge, with the world’s fastest dictionary so that you can learn words quickly and efficiently.

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Vocabulary.com first built a corpus containing over a billion and a half words by looking at books, periodicals, and other materials. From this, they then culled essential English vocabulary words needed for success in academics or business.

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Vocabulary.com uses a proprietary technology called Adaptive Vocabulary Instruction. Everything a learner does on the site adds to the AVI model, thereby avoiding

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wasting time learning words that are not appropriate to that learner's skills and knowledge. Previously learned words are reintroduced from time to time to help you retain the words originally learned.

Users can easily make and share word lists and can add descriptions to words, name the lists, make lists public, and share them with friends or classmates. Other users can comment on the lists, favorite them, or use them as templates for new lists.

A free Vocabulary.com account includes personalized vocabulary instruction, the world's fastest dictionary, the super-fast vocabulary list builder, and charts and graphs of your learning progress.

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