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Extend your vocabulary

Do you want to improve your use of English, or just test your word knowledge?

Based on the well-known page from Readers' Digest, this simple quiz requires you to look at a word and choose the definition which you think is closest to the real one. (Note that none of the options may be an exact definition.)

Each of the pages below has ten words with four possible definitions of each. When you have made your selection, click on the submit button to see how you fared.


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This site was created by Alan Rolfe of Thames Valley University. No copyrights have been knowingly violated, but if you know of any issues, please contact me at alan.rolfe@uwl.ac.uk


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