Vocabulary

The links on this page are intended to help you develop your vocabulary and improve your reading ability.

Vocabulary Improvement Program - This hypertext system is intended to serve as a study aid for self-improvement. Knowledge of how words are created from roots, prefixes, and suffixes helps to identify the meaning of new words encountered for the first time. This skill is helpful when taking aptitude tests such as the SAT and the GRE. Copyright © Voree Software 1999-2000

Word Roots... your Quick Reference - Good spellers make sure they confidently know the "building blocks" of the English language - prefixes, suffixes and word roots.

Understanding a word's meaning and getting the spelling right is much easier if you understand these components.

How fast do you read? - Simple reading test. Gives you an idea about how long it might take you to finish a book.

Study Reading and Recall Check - Improving people's reading since 1988

Your Dictionary - "...a rich array of language resources available at the Web of On-line Dictionaries" This site also gives you the root/roots of the words.

Preparation for an American University Program Vocabulary Workshop  Following is a list of roots for English vocabulary. The list is formatted so that the root with its definition is shown first, then the source of the root (Latin, Greek, etc.) with the source word's definition, and then last is an example of the root as used in a word and the word's definition. The sample words are linked to additional words with the same root.

Centre for Independent Language Learning - Vocabulary

Merriam-Webster Online

Latin and Greek root index - Many technical terms, names of biological structures, and names of taxa, are formed from Greek and Latin roots. If you are familiar with these roots, you can 'translate' the technical terms into English.