Building Vocabulary Skills

Bui Hoai Trang教育2020-04-13

價格：免費

更新日期：2020-04-13

檔案大小：98.9 MB

目前版本：2.0

版本需求：系統需求：iOS 10.0 或以後版本。相容裝置：iPhone、iPad、iPod touch。

支援語言：英語

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