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Wordnik wants to be a place for all the words, and everything known about them. Traditional dictionaries make you wait until they've found what they consider to be "enough" information about a word before they will show it to you. Wordnik knows you don't want to wait-if you're interested in a word, we're interested too! Our goal is to show you as much information as possible, just as fast as we can find it, for every word in English, and to give you a place where you can make your own opinions about words known. By "information," we don't just mean traditional definitions (although we have plenty of those)! This information could be: * An example sentence-even if we've only found one sentence for a word, we'll show it to you. (And we'll show you where the sentence came from, too! * Related words: not just synonyms and antonyms, but words that are used in the same contexts. (For instance, cheeseburger, milkshake, and doughnut are not synonyms, but they show up in the same kinds of sentences.) * Images tagged by our friends at Flickr: want to know what a "pout" looks like? We'll show you. * Statistics: how rare is "tintinnabulation"? Well, we think you'll see it only about once a year. "Smile"? You might see that word many times, every day. * An audio pronunciation-and you can record your own!

Word Games is a provider of a large collection of online word games and typing games. The word games range from simple word searches and crosswords to games that require players to complete sentences and phrases. The typing games are a mix of simple sentence typing for speed and games that require accuracy to "defend" a character or move a character through a scene. Some of the games featured on Word Games can be either downloaded to your computer, see Typing Defense, or can be embedded into your blog or website. Word Games does use interstitial ads on its site, which is might annoy some visitors, but none of the ads I've seen on it were inappropriate in their content (most were for online schools, and tutoring services). The size of the Word Games collection makes up for the potential annoyance of interstitial ads.

Games, instruction and quizzes related to nouns, adjectives, paragraphs, punctuation, sentences, spelling, verbs, and adverbs

This set of activities is like an old-fashioned Spelling Bee. Contestants -- that's you! -- in grades 1-8 will listen to three stories, one at a time, and then spell words from each story. Students in high school will listen to separate sentences and then spell the words from each sentence. If you get stumped, you can click to hear a word again, as many times as you need to. If you're in grade three or higher, you can ask for a definition too. Since words often make more sense when they are attached to an idea, all the words in the story or sentences are in context. Review the words, hear the audio, and SPELL the missing words. Make sure to check your SPELLING carefully, since your results will be calculated at the end.

a game where you choose a player to compete with in a spelling contest. Each player chooses from a variety of words and challenges their opponent online to correctly spell the word that is spoken to them in the context of a sentence.

Create your own multi-sentence talking squirrel animation!

Monitors any website and alerts you when it changes, visually showing you the exact words and sentences that have been added or removed.

Online "lessons" explaining various grammar rules and problems. Categorized in levels: Sentence Level, Paragraph Level, and Essay Level, each with subtopics covering specific grammatical concepts.

Welcome to the Mnemonicizer, the Mnemonic Device Device. A mnemonic device is a sentence that helps us to memorize a string of words. For example, music students use "Every Good Boy Does Fine" to remember the order of notes on the treble clef. (E, G, B, D, F). Math students use "Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally" to remember the order of arithmetic operations (Parentheses, Exponent, Multiply, Divide, Add, Subtract.). But the range of usefulness extends beyond music and math. They are an invaluable resource whenever you are trying to remember something.

Shared by one of my grad students. Cool site to help students develop mnemonic devices.

Buy Wise Account Introduction Start with a one sentence hook to get readers interested. You may be paying too much for your bank account. A new type of account, called a Buy Wise account, could help you keep more of your money. What is a Buy Wise Account? A Buy Wise Account is an account that allows you to budget for your shopping and save money. When you create a Buy Wise Account, you will be asked to set a spending limit. This spending limit is the maximum amount of money you can spend in a day, week, or month. Once you have set your spending limit, you can add money to your account and use it to pay for your shopping. If you use your Buy Wise Account to pay for your shopping, you will be able to see how much money you have spent and how much money you have left to spend. This will help you to stay on budget and to save money. You can also use your Buy Wise Account to save money on your shopping by using coupons and discounts. If you are looking to save money, a Buy Wise Account is a great option. It is simple to use and it can help you to stay on budget. Try a Buy Wise Account today and see how much you can save.

Buy Wise Account Introduction Start with a one sentence hook to get readers interested. You may be paying too much for your bank account. A new type of account, called a Buy Wise account, could help you keep more of your money.

"Word Magnets will take a piece of text and break it into individual magnets which can be moved around the screen, resized, removed, colour coded, grouped, sorted and so on. New magnets can also be added at any point. The resource also offers a range of backgrounds for use in a variety of activities."