If you’re not positive what mendicant, indite and fugacious mean, Vocabulary.com is here to help. The site beefs up your word power with more than 40,000 multiple-choice questions and refines its choices as it learns about your knowledge of the English language. Then it patiently returns to words you missed until you get them right. Additional features include a dictionary, a word blog and a section that lets users create and share vocabulary lists, like “100 SAT Words Beginning with ‘A.'”
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