Tips for Improving Vocabulary

Building a Better Vocabulary
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/vocabulary.htm
Students might find the suggestions and strategies offered in this site quite helpful for increasing their vocabulary.

A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms
http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/rhetoric.html
An extensive site containing nearly 1,000 rhetorical terms. If students need a quick definition of terms such as paradox, irony, or antithesis, this might be a good site to bookmark.

Merriam-Webster Online
http://www.m-w.com/home.htm
A searchable dictionary and thesaurus are provided as well as a daily vocabulary builder and daily word games.

Roget's Thesaurus
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/forms_unrest/ROGET.html
A hyper-text version of Roget's Thesaurus. The extensive list resulting from a search also has links to further possibilities.

A Web of On-line Dictionaries
http://www.yourdictionary.com
Professor Robert Beard, of Bucknell University, has developed this index of online dictionaries for 216 different languages. The section of Specialized English Dictionaries contains such items as an Online Weather Glossary, a Dental Procedures Dictionary, and a Comprehensive Financial Glossary. Come back to this site when you have a lot of time to have fun exploring.