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Find synonyms, antonyms & definition for (almost) any word - To help you avoid using the same word too repetitively, redundantly, recurrently, incessantly, etc., etc.

A definition for each of those internet words you might want to understand.

"VocabSushi provides thousands of sentences that demonstrate any vocab word's contemporary usage in news articles. Compared to the brute force method of flashcard definitions, a deeper understanding of the word can be attained simply by reading several interesting sentences that contain that word."

These pages include free or almost free apps for K-12 teachers and students. The list is by no means definitive, but I will add new content as it becomes available.

Museums are rarely able to exhibit more than a fraction of the material they own, and even then the best stuff is too often sealed off behind glass or mobbed by school parties. There are no such problems on museum websites, where space is unlimited and objects, scanned in high definition, can be browsed in close-up. Here is the pick of the world's collections.

"Vocabulary Builder Improve Your Writing * Boost your vocabulary * See words in the context of real sentences * Learn by association and by definition * Master a new lexicon!"

Great way to explain Web 2.0.

"Definition: "... refers to using new digital tools to help ordinary people to tell their own real-life stories." (Wikipedia)" Hotlist of resources and examples.

NCTE's definition of 21st Century Literacies

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!

Types of figurative language with definitions and examples.

This is a great resource for language arts. I tried the word "cognition" and was amazed by the results of the search. Any class would be enhanced with its use.

synonyms, antonyms

It is just like a real dictionary with synonyms and antonyms and definitions for all of them which can be seen by hovering over the word on the graphic organizer that is automatically generated.

Online free graphical dictionary and thesaurus.