Academic Word of the Day Quizzes

Academic Word of the Day Quizzes - What they are - How they Help you Learn

The Academic Word of the Day page examines particular words and their usage in academic writing. For each word, it examines the meaning or meanings of that word and its collocationsThe tendency of a particular word or phrase to be found in the proximity of another., connotationsThe additional or incidental meanings, associations or references which a word, phrase or sentence might have in addition to its obvious core meaning., other words in the same word familiesA group of words which share the same root and similar basic meaning but have different syntactic uses because of their different inflected forms or derived forms made with different affixes., possible synonymsA word which has the same meaning and use as another., antonymsA word which has the opposite meaning to another word., and lexical phrasesMulti-word chunks of language which may be of varying length and which have various functions., and provides examples of its use in authentic textsA text written by someone writing about matters in their own specialist area for other specialists or for the general public, but not for English teaching purposes. which are cited and listed in the bibliography.

The words are presented one by one every weekday and they are grouped into sets of ten, spanning two weeks. There are three quiz types for each set:

• A drag and drop exercise to match a word with its definition;
• A gap fill exercise to provide a suitable word to complete a sentence (with a few letters to help you out);
• A gap fill exercise to provide a suitable word to complete a sentence (with no extra help, but remember - all the answers come from one particular set).

The items in each test are presented in random order, so if you repeat the test you are highly unlikely to see the items in the same order. Once you have completed a test you will have a record of this stating when you completed it:

There are three quizzes for each set of ten words, posted over two weeks, on weekdays.