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Vocabulary word of the day
One useful word a day: not a museum piece, but something you can put in an essay, an email or a story this week.
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How is the word of the day chosen?
From a curated list of 173 useful, writing-ready words. The pick is based on your local date, so everyone in the same time zone sees the same word, and it changes at midnight.
How can I actually remember new words?
Use it within a day, in your own sentence, then meet it again a few days later. Spaced retrieval, recalling a word after a gap rather than rereading it, is one of the best-supported findings in learning research. The quiz below is built on that idea.
Does the site remember which words I have seen?
Only in your own browser: your quiz streak is stored in localStorage and you can clear it on the privacy page.