Common Usage Problems (Vicki Jones and Ann Bertoldie)
Words that native English speakers frequently find confusing.

Concordancer-Tagged Corpus (National Taiwan Normal University)
China News and Learner Data

English for You - Visual Fruit (Donald Hennessey)
Pictures of fruit and their names in English

Pictures of vegetables and their names in English

3200+ words sorted into various lists: SAT words, GRE words, Writer's Words, ...

Expanding your Vocabulary (La Trobe University)
Brief hints for advanced students.

Try
FlashcardExchange.com (Not designed for ESL/EFL)
Use an online 'flashcard viewer' to study various 'visitor-submitted' flashcards

Word lists both printable and as flashcards

GMAT Vocabulary List (Graduate Management Admission Test)
Words, definitions and sentence examples.

GMAT Vocabulary List (Booazici University)
Words, definitions and sentence examples.

Word lists: printable, as flashcards or as automatically showing (Java) popups.

Easy. Click on the picture of the word you hear. (WAV files)

Language Zoo (Jon Fernquest)
Sentences using words and phrases like: abit, any chance, consider, favor, ...

Lingua Trivia (Doug Gilbert)
For advanced students. See a word or phrase, mail in your answer, wait a week and see the answer.

LookWayUp.Com's Word Roulette (Font size a bit small.)
Every time you load the page you get a randomly selected word.

We polish the Polish furniture every day. I did not object to the object. etc.

A list of words with definitions.

Quia.com activity -Columns

Word lists: printable, as flashcards or as automatically showing (Java) popups.

True/false and multiple choice quizzes on basic exam topics and vocabulary

By S. Kathleen Kitao & Kenji Kitao

Test your word knowledge, Learn words at your level, Read & Listen, ...

The Word Spy (Paul McFedries)
Definitions of recently-coined and interesting words. For native speakers.

Quickly and easily search the 100 Million Word British National Corpus

A detailed family tree chart: paternal uncle's wife, maternal cousin, ....

Vocabulary Self-Study Quizzes (The Internet TESL Journal)
See the answers right away. Produced by teachers around the world.

Vocabulary Vulcanizer [FRAME] (Paige Jaeger)
Study 'roots' to improve vocabulary: Phobia (=Fear) claustrophobia, xenophobia

Quiz program for Windwos. Free for schools.

Web Concordancer (National Taiwan Normal University)
Brown Corpus, VOA News, Learner Corpus M, ...

For native speakers and advanced students. Expand your English vocabulary while surfing the Web

baker's dozen, kick the bucket, left wing, Kilroy was here, ...

List of about 100 English words with definitions, example sentences, and pronunciation.

Why it is normal to understand more English words than you can use

Every week we send an English Vocabulary Email

www.ego4u.com's English Vocabulary (Pahlowm, Müller & Czapla)
Word lists, explanations and vocabulary exercises on a variety of topics.

Gonna, Ain't, Gimme, Gotta, Kinda, Wanna, Whatcha, ...

Charts with meanings and examples: Ah, Alas, Dear, Eh, ...

How to use say and tell.

UK English: 'just gone three o'clock'; Others: 'a quarter past three' etc.

300+ word formation exercises

Example of random generated test from huge database

The love of money is the root of all evil. VS Money is the root of all evil.

Place the cursor over the image to see and hear the word. Requires a version 6 browser.

See pictures of vocabulary, a dialogue, crossword puzzles, dictation/spelling, .

See pictures of vocabulary, a dialogue, crossword puzzle and jumbled words

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