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Try Vocabulary.com’s iPad App for Learning New Vocabulary

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Screen Shot 2014-03-18 at 2.18.56 PMVocabulary.com is an excellent vocabulary study service offering thousands of vocabulary practice lists and activities for students in elementary school through graduate school. This week Vocabulary.com launched a new iPad app ($2.99).

Through the app students can access hundreds of lists of SAT, GRE, and other test prep words. Students can also use the app to can find vocabulary lists that are attached to novels, historical documents, famous speeches, and current news articles.

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When you sign up for Vocabulary.com you will be given an assessment quiz in order to give you suggested lists with which to start your practice. After completing the assessment you can use the practice lists suggested by Vocabulary.com or choose your own lists from the huge gallery of vocabulary lists.

One of the aspects of the Vocabulary.com activities that I like is the instant feedback for every practice question a student attempts.  Vocabulary.com has an optional competition aspect to it. Students can play for their schools and climb the Vocabulary.com leaderboard.

Winning Words Match Games – Fun & Free Vocabulary Games

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Screen Shot 2014-03-10 at 2.29.13 PMWinning Words is a series of free iPad apps that feature matching / “memory” style vocabulary games. There are six apps in the series. Each app is played in the same manner of flipping a card and trying to find a match for it. The six apps are synonym match, antonym match, homophone match, compound match, double letter match, and singular/plural match. Each app supports up to four players and has three levels of difficulty.

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I tried Winning Words Synonym Match to get a sense of how the apps worked in practice. The app did not require me to register or enter any information, I simply opened it and started playing. The app is appropriate for elementary school and middle school students.

Have Fun Learning Vocabulary With the World’s Worst Pet

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iready World’s Worst Pet is a free iPad app that contains a series of fun vocabulary games. In the app players have to help bring home Snargg, the world’s worst pet, who has run away. To get Snargg back players have to fill his food dish by learning new vocabulary words. Each of the six levels in the game contain ten dishes (each dish represents a new set of words) that can be filled. Four games are available for each dish. The games are fill-in-the-blank, synonym identification, antonym identification, and definition identification.

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World’s Worst Pet is designed for students in grades four through eight. The app contains a total of 1,000 vocabulary words. I played the game for a while this morning and found myself enjoying it. In my time playing the game I could see that students could definitely get hooked on this vocabulary game.

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Thanks to David Kapuler for recommending this app.