Advanced Vocabulary Words: Abate to Ardent
Advanced word lists are usually alphabetical, which looks arbitrary until you notice how much the first stretch of the alphabet has in common. Words beginning with ab- and a- tend to be about taking away, moving off, or lessening, and that is a real pattern rather than a coincidence. This set runs from abate to […]
How Vocabulary Questions Work: Synonyms and Context
Vocabulary questions come in two shapes. Sometimes you see a single word followed by four possible replacements. Sometimes the word sits inside a sentence and you decide what it means there. The two look different on the page, but they ask the same thing: which choice could stand in for the target word without changing […]
