English vocabulary practice: useful words beginning with A
Choose the A word by its job in the sentence: advice is a noun, afford and avoid are verbs, and aware is usually followed by of.
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English vocabulary practice: useful words beginning with B
Learn each B word with a short context. Ask whether it names a thing, describes an advantage, or states an action. Then check which words usually appear with it.
English vocabulary practice: useful words beginning with C
Learn each C word with a short meaning, a common phrase, and a complete example. Use calm for a peaceful state, careful for attention to possible problems, cancel for ending a plan, capable for having an ability, compare for examining differences or similarities, and complain for saying that something is wrong.
English vocabulary practice: useful words beginning with D
Decide means choose; a deadline is the latest time for something; depend means be affected by something; describe means say what something is like; develop means grow, improve, or create over time.
English vocabulary practice: useful words beginning with E
Learn each E word with one clear situation and one useful pattern. Check whether the word describes something, names an amount, asks you to look carefully, or excludes one item from a group.
English vocabulary practice: useful words beginning with F
Fair means reasonable or equal. Familiar means known to you. Flexible can change to fit a situation. Focus means give attention. Frequent means happening often, and fresh means new or recently made, picked, or prepared.
English vocabulary practice: useful words beginning with G
Use gain for getting something useful, generous for someone willing to give or help, genuine for something real or honest, glance for a quick look, gradual for a slow change, and grateful for thanks.
English vocabulary practice: useful words beginning with H
Use habit for a repeated action, handle for dealing with a situation, healthy for something that supports good health, hesitate for pausing before you act, helpful for something that gives useful help, honest for someone who tells the truth, and household for the people who live together or the home they share.
English vocabulary practice: useful words beginning with I
Use identify when you name or recognize something, ignore when you choose not to give it attention, and improve when something becomes better. Include adds something, increase makes an amount larger, and independent describes someone or something able to act without help or control from another person.
English vocabulary practice: useful words beginning with J
Choose the J word that matches both the meaning and the grammar of the sentence. Check whether you need a thing, an action, or a word that changes the emphasis of what you say.
English vocabulary practice: useful words beginning with K
Learn a new word together with its job in a sentence. For these K words, notice whether you need a verb, adjective, noun, or a phrase such as keen on or knowledge of.
English vocabulary practice: useful words beginning with L
Use label for a name or information tag, lend when someone gives something temporarily, likely for a probable result, local for something from a nearby area, locate when you find where something is, and loyal for steady support.