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**Dictionaries, Lexicons, Thesaurus, Word and Vocabulary tools**

Accademic Word List
This site will help you expand your academic vocabulary using the Academic Word List (the AWL). All students, home students and overseas students, need to learn the technical vocabulary of their field. As learners of English preparing for academic study you also need to learn general academic vocabulary, words such as: **feature, illustrate, regulate, strategy**. This core academic vocabulary is used by writers in many different subject areas. Learning vocabulary from the AWL will help you improve your comprehension of academic texts. It will also help you write assignments in an academic style. Create cloze activities

[|Addictionary]
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[|Bab.la]



Dictionary
Search hundreds of thousands of translations. Includes easy-to-use functions such as word suggestions, synonyms, search filters for technical terms, proverbs, etc.

Test & Train
Learn languages with language quizzes on different topics (e.g. grammar, conversation, job-related, fun, travel & places)

Participate
Suggest your own translations, verify the suggestions of other users or create your own language quizzes.

[|BabelFish]
yahoo tool to translate blocks of text

[|Behind the Names]:
Find out the history of your name or search names by categories like English, Spanish, mythology, Biblical names, African and more.

[|Confusing Words]
Some of these words are homonyms (words that sound alike but are spelled differently) and some are just commonly confused.
 * 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.

[|Cultural Literacy]:
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: Search through topics like technology, American history, literature in English, proverbs and more to become a more " active citizen in our multicultural democracy ."

[|The Devil’s Dictionary]:
This adapted version of Ambrose Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary contains words like brute, gallows, damn, wrath, and X.

[|The Dialectizer]:
Paste a URL into the box and select a dialec t like Redneck, Cockney or Elmer Fudd to have the whole site translated.

[|Entymology Dictionary]
Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago.

[|EYEplorer]
**[|eyePlorer]** - searches **[|Wikipedia]** for specified topics and displays search results graphically. - Facts about a topic are represented by “eyespots” on a circular graph. - Each eyespot is a heading. - If you click on a heading/eyespot, you open a text box containing a summary sentence about it. - These sentences can be dragged and dropped onto a notepad and then conveniently copied to the computer’s clipboard for use elsewhere. - Double-clicking on an eyespot connects that heading with other headings to show that they are related in some way. - Clicking on a line between two headings, opens a sentence that summarizes the relationship. - Headings are displayed on the left, so they can be opened and then dragged to the notepad on the right.

[|Free Dictionary]
The world's most comprehensive dictionary: many languages, medical and legal dictionaries. Thesaurus, acronyms, abbreviations, idioms, encyclopedia, literature reference and a Search Engine all in one!

[|freedict.com]:
This online translato r can find words in Dutch, Afrikaans, Russian, Portugese, Swedish, Japanese, Hungarian and more.



**[|Free Rice],**
Super popular vocabulary game that donates rice for every correct answer. You can now play the game with vocabulary terms and identification questions from the areas of art, chemistry, foreign languages, math, and geography. [|Free Rice] and games like it are good resources for students to use to review and develop vocabulary. Students like playing Free Rice because they immediately know if they were right or wrong. The instantaneous feedback is part of what makes the game appealing to students. That instantaneous feedback creates a challenge for students to improve their knowledge individually.

Image Chef''s [|Make Word mosaic]

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idiom dictionary
search over 5000 Essential Idioms You Should Know

[|Internet Picture Dictionary]
The Internet Picture Dictionary is a completely free, online multilingual picture dictionary designed especially for ESL students and beginning English, French, German, Spanish and Italian language learners of all ages.

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Vocabulary sets; glide mouse over picture to reveal the written word



assortment of games and tools

**[|Leximo]**
definitions from contributors and word-related video

[|Lexipaedia]
mind maps as well as traditional stuff

@http://mashpedia.com/[[image:mash.gif width="206" height="118" align="right" link="@http://mashpedia.com/"]]
- matches reference articles from Wikipedia to materials from other sources like YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, Digg, and the web in general - provides users with a comprehensive view of news stories and reference topics.

[|Memidex]
complete inflections, simple interface, fast

my vocabulary
A free site that allows students at high-elem., junior high and high school levels, teachers and life-long learners to acquire and retain vocabulary. Each free session has three levels. Each level has 3 puzzles with 12 words each (36 total words in a session) and contains seven (7) additional activities/exercises that help develop vocabulary. 1) Fill-in-the-Blanks, (2) Definition Match, (3) Synonym & Antonym Encounter, (4) Crossword, (5) Word Search, (6) True or False Sentences, (7) Contextual Story (including an AUDIO reading). It is continuously updated.

**[|Occupational Titles]**:
If you’ve ever wanted to know the official name of your job, look it up here.

**[|OneLook]**:
This no-frills online dictionary lets you look up basic definitions, related words, phrases and more. You can even customize your experience with different searches. [|onelook reverse-dictionary] 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. Just type it into the box above and hit the "Find words" button. Keep it short to get the best results. In most cases you'll get back a list of related terms with the best matches shown first.

Phraseup
phraseup* assists you with writing by finding and filling-in the words you can't remember

**[|Real Estate Abbreviations, Terms and Phrases]**:
Get through your next home signing by doing some extra research on this site.

**[|RhymeZone]**:
Type in a word to find rhyming words, synonyms, definitions, Shakespeare references and more.

**[|Save the Word]**
adopt a word, pledge to use a word, help save the usage of words ; a project promoting the use of obscure and "endangered" words. [|Save the Words] is a huge collage of words that have been removed from the Oxford Dictionary because a lack of use. Each one of these words is "up for adoption" and looking for someone to adopt it. Word adopters are people who, in the words of [|Save the Words], promise to use that word as frequently as possible and save it from extinction



**[|Shahi]**
is a visual dictionary that combines [|Wiktionary] content with [|Flickr] images, and more! This is a really handy tool for students or in the classroom if you have a computer + projector set up.

**[|Slang Site]**:
Look up Web words, s lang and even made up but often used words here.

**[|Strange and Unusual References]**:
Head to this site to look up all-vowel words, magic words, magic archetypes, how to identify unicorns and other odd material.

[|tenwordwiki]
The encyclopedia for the ADD generation Twitter style version of Wikipedia that only describes stuff in under ten words but they also add a pinch of humor to all their definitions.



[|The Visual Dictionary]
In there words...... The Visual Dictionary is a collection of words in the real world. Photographs of signage, graffiti, advertising, tattoos, you name it, we're trying to catalogue it. We started the project in February 2006, and have since racked up over [|7500 images of over 4000 words] - thanks to everyone who has contributed to date. We're of course, still accepting entries, as the Dictionary should just continue growing forever, but we're starting to think about ways of navigating and browsing images now. If you want to join in, why not sign up and contribute images, or drop us a line with your ideas of how we could use the images. We're open to suggestions! We'll be releasing a proper API soon so you can develop your own solutions too! [|Sign up and contribute] or [|Read the latest news & update]

[|Visual Thesaurus]
from thinkmap

==[|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 contex t. Just copy text from a document and paste it into the box, and then click on the "Grab Vocabulary!" button. VocabGrabber will automatically create a list of vocabulary from your text, which you can then sort, filter, and save. Select any word on the list and you'll see a snapshot of the Visual Thesaurus map and definitions for that word, along with examples of the word in your text. Click on the word map or the highlighted word in the example to see the Visual Thesaurus in action.

**[|Weboword]**
website designed to help students l earn new vocabulary words. Each of the vocabulary words on [|Weboword] have cartoon drawings depicting the meaning of that word. Students are encouraged to submit their own drawings to Weboword. Weboword also offers crossword puzzles for students to try.

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**[|WordAhead]**[[image:WordAhead_Logo.jpg align="right"]]
Vocabulary videos

**[|Wordia]**
video definitions and personal //takes// on words

**[|Wordie]**
like Flickr, but without the photos

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[|Word Reference][[image:starSean.gif link="http://www.wordreference.com/"]]
The WordReference Dictionaries are free online translation dictionaries. The most popular dictionaries are the Spanish Dictionary, French Dictionary and the Italian Dictionary. enter workd and select langauage or english definition provides thesaurus

[|Word search maker][[image:wordsearch.JPG align="right" link="http://www.wordsearchmaker.net/"]]
The Ultimate Word Search Maker Step 1) Add words to your puzzle Step 2) Copy and paste the code into your website It's that easy to make free word search puzzles!

**[|Word Spy]**:
Search for a specific word to bring up funny quotations and a definition, or you can browse categories and sub categories like aging and death, hacking and hackers, entrepreneurs, jargon and buzzwords, art and design, drugs, euphemisms, sleeping or cell phones.

[|Wordsift][[image:tc_logo.gif align="right" link="http://www.wordsift.com/"]]
WordSift is a tool that was created primarily for teachers. Mainly, think of it playfully - as a toy in a linguistic playground that is available Sift through texts -- just cut and paste any text to instantly capture and display the vocabulary structure of texts, and to help create an opportunity to talk and play with language. - quickly identify important words that appear in the text. - visualization of word relationships and Google searches of images and videos. With just a click on any word in the Tag Cloud, the program displays instances of sentences in which that word is used in the text. - WordSift also allows users to see relationships among words. Want to help students understand difficult-to-define academic words such as analyze? Show students synonyms of this word from within WordSift, using the Visual Thesaurus®. The Visual Thesaurus acts like a thesaurus-cum-dictionary with brilliant graphics. For word geeks and psycholinguists, this is a lot of intrinsic fun. But for teachers, it is a great way of talking about vocabulary -- not as boring lists of definitions to be memorized, but as a web of relationships with other words -- a veritable social network of words.

[|Word Star Free Dictionaries]
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