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Daily Words 18

Hello to everyone who is working their way through my Daily Words posts. Here are the words for today: integrity n. quality of being honest and morally upright intervene v. (of time) come or be between mature adj. fully grown or developed mentally or physically; having achieved one’s full potential site n. place where a [...]

Daily Words 15

Hello everyone, Here are today’s Daily Words for students preparing for all advanced and intermediate English exams. How are you doing? When you learn these words do you use your dictionary tools to discover the different forms of the words? What about synonyms? likewise adv. similarly parameter n. quantity that does not vary in a [...]

Daily Words 11

Here are today’s words. How are you doing? If you are do you go back and test yourself on what you have already learnt? How about writing some sentences – you can post them here in the comments below each Daily Words lesson. Wouldn’t it be great if people from around the world added good [...]

Daily Words 10

Here’s the words for Advanced CPE, CAE, ECPE, TOEFL and IELTS students as well as any others that want to make sure their vocabulary is top of the range. implicate v. ~ sb show that sb is involved in sth, esp a crime maximise [ maximize: ] vt. to make as high or great as [...]

Daily Words 9

Oops! Missed a day! Perhaps I had better rename this Almost Daily Words…… I got busy with my artwork yesterday and was too tired to post last night. Probably something to do with the weather. There is a gale blowing here in the Greek Islands and my washing ended up all over the street today. [...]

Daily Words 8

OK. Here are today’s words. The Daily Words lists are specially chosen for students who need to pass advanced English exams or for anyone who wants to work quickly, easily and effectively towards a better vocabulary. Most of them are words that you won’t think of learning for every day speaking or reading for pleasure [...]

Daily Words 2

Here is today’s selection of Daily Words that are essential for all advanced students preparing for Michigan ECCE, Cambridge IELTS, CPE or CAE or any other English examinations. To be honest they are not exciting words but they are exactly the words that you find in the exam papers again and again (and my students [...]

Daily Words 1

There are around a million words in the English Language – which ones should you learn if you are trying to succeed in CPE or IELTS for instance? [ETA - Apparently there are not "millions" of English words as I had originally recklessly posted here - as someone pointed out to me in a very [...]

Become Unconfused

When I meet a new student I usually ask them what they think their biggest problem is. Spelling is definitely one of the top 5 – for Native English Speakers let alone ESL students! Obviously the answer is to work at the problem but what to do? Part of the point of this blog is [...]

Improve your vocabulary

I’ve just posted information about my favourite dictionary tool for language learners. It is the one I used to get over my problem with learning AND REMEMBERING Greek vocabulary and it works very well for any language learner whatever their first language and whatever language they are learning. It is also perfect for dyslexics as [...]

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