8 lessons on the skills behind vocabulary — homophones and confusables, multiple-meaning words, shades of meaning, compound words, Greek and Latin roots, dictionary and thesaurus skills, academic and technical words, foreign words and where words come from. Each lesson has theory with word lists, Mimi's tips, three quizzes and a rapid-fire round.
Sound the same, spelled differently: here/hear, write/right, affect/effect, accept/except, lose/loose and 30 more.
bat, bark, light, run, match — one spelling, several meanings; use the sentence to pick the right one.
big → large → huge → enormous; slim vs skinny; denotation vs connotation; choosing the exact word.
sunflower, ice cream, mother-in-law — closed, open and hyphenated compounds, plus blends like brunch and smog.
bio, geo, graph, phon, port, dict, spect, aud, vis, chron — 40 roots that unlock thousands of words.
Alphabetical order to the third letter, guide words, reading an entry, choosing the right sense, using a thesaurus wisely.
The words of school subjects and exams — analyse, evaluate, significant — and how to read technical terms in context.
déjà vu, bona fide, per cent, karma, bungalow — borrowed words, their meanings, and how etymology helps.