Vocabulary
Build your vocabulary, improve your knowledge of words that often go together, learn more academic words and find online dictionaries.
Quick tips for vocabulary practice
- Create your own gap-fill exercises
- Create your own flashcards instead of using ones created by others
- Apply, review, and re-use new vocabulary items, always in context eg create sentences
Academic Phrasebank
Find phrases you can use in your own written assignments and presentations to ensure an academic style.
Intermediate AdvancedFlax Collocations
An easy-to-use collocation search engine for words that are used together, developed by the University of Waikato.
Intermediate NZ contentSkell Collocations
Search for any word to generate example sentences from authentic sources, check collocations, or study words with a similar meaning.
Intermediate AdvancedLextutor Concordancer
Search through a huge body of authentic English writing to see what words go together and how they are used in context.
Intermediate AdvancedAWL Exercises
Self-checking matching and multiple choice exercises for each sublist within the Academic Word List.
IntermediateTest your vocabulary
A tool developed at Victoria University for measuring your vocabulary size—useful for students and teachers alike as a diagnostic tool.
Intermediate Advanced NZ contentQuizlet
Create an account and make your own online flashcards and exercises, or use a set made by others.
BeginnerAWL highlighter and gap-maker
Cambridge Dictionary
Definitions, examples in context, idioms, grammar notes, and different varieties of English
Oxford Learners' Dictionary
Audio for British and American pronunciation. 'Topic dictionaries' of words related to different areas of life such as business, education and technology.
Macmillan Dictionary and Thesaurus
Definitions, synonyms, related words and phrases, examples of usage and a built-in thesaurus.
Longman Dictionary of English
Includes collocations and audio of standard British and American pronunciation.