Wordnik is built on the theory that people learn words best by seeing them in context. The site has more than 4 billion words of text (web pages, books, magazines, newspapers, etc.) and have mined so that you can find example sentences for any word you’re interested in. Be forewarned, in an attempt to show you info on any word, they show you whatever they have found, for any word you look up.
At Wordnik, you get:
- Real example sentences to show words in context
- Meaningful information about your word’s frequency and use patterns
- Related words—not just synonyms and antonyms, but words that behave in similar ways
Tags: memorizing words, Wordnik, words with meanings
There are many sites and sources for you to find a ‘word-of-the-day’. These sites will generally look through a dictionary to give you a word and a description – hopefully expanding your vocabulary. Usually these sites use randomly chosen words since they have no idea when you might start watching the words provided. I have seen a small group of sites that go out of the way to find words that are ‘more interesting’.
A new site for me is WordSpy. Rather than some ol’ words, this site provides you with a word of the day that is a ‘newer’ word. Words that are just now coming into the main stream of the English Language. A interesting added feature is an attempt to describe the first time the word(s) where used. I will visit regularily to see if a words catches on and I start hearing it in daily conversations.
Tags: daily conversation words, Interesting Words, main stream, Word of the Day
