Glossaries

This page has a section of links to online dictionaries, tutorials and activities on a range of different topics.

Online dictionaries
Here are a selection of online dictionaries:

General
Longman Online Dictionary (UK) The Cambridge Online Dictionary (UK) The Merriam Webster Online Dictionary (US) University of Pheonix Online Thesaurus (US) Free Dictionary (US) OneLook Thesaurus Idioms (UK) Idioms Site Phrasal verbs (UK) The Phrase Finder Word Spy: Neoligisms Slang Internet Slang Dictionary DTXTR

Business
Glossary of financial & business terms (US) Investopedia Financia Dictionary The Ridiculous Business Jargon Dictionary

Bi-lingual
Linguee Bilingual German/English & English/German Dictionary Leo Bilingual German/English & English/German Dictionary dict.cc: German-English Dictionary WordReference.com BabLa

Visual & other resources
Shahi: A visual Dictionary Merriam Webster's Visual Dictionary Visuwords: A graphic dictionary Visual Thesaurus Vocab Grabber howjsay: A talking Dictionary Encyclopeadia Britannica Enchanted Learning Picture Dictionary (suitable for children) The Internet Picture Dictionary (suitable for children)

How to learn vocabulary
Study tip: Learning vocabulary : This page gives you some ideas for how to learn new vocabulary and includes advice on keeping a voacbulary list, how to learn and practise vocabulary , books for vocabulary learning, and a great list of web links for online vocabulary resources.

General
Compleat Lexical Tutor Six Online Corpora The Web Concordancer

Confusables
Confusables This activity on words that can be easily confused is provided by www.english-online.org.uk. When you've completed the exercise click on PART I and PART III at the bottom of the page for further exercises in this area.

Business collocations
Business collocations : This is a link to a short activity from the www.better-english.com website focusess on six commonly used business collocations (that is words that go naturally together), in this case verb + noun combinations.

Vocabulary tests
Vocabulary tests : This is a link to 45 short vocabulary tests based on the Longman's business English course books Intelligent Business. Start by clicking on Unit 1 in the Pre-intermediate column and when the pop-up window appears, answer the 10 questions. Your score will then appear as a percentage and you then have the possibility of re-doing the test by clicking "Reset" or seeing the answers by clicking "Answers".

Interactive business vocabulary exercises
Business Vision : Here are a series of online interactive business vocabulary exercises based on the Oxford University Press course book Business Vision (Intermediate). Only the units that do not require you to have the course book have been listed here: Unit 1: Images of business Unit 2: Change Unit 3: Advertising Unit 4: Trade and Ethics (pronunciation) Unit 7: Travel (error correction: extra word) Unit 8: Products (error correction: extra word) Unit 9: Transactions (pronunciation) Unit 10: Customers (error correction: extra word)

A word a day
English Daily : This is a daily activity offered on the EnglishDaily.com website, where you'll also find helpful short activities such as Daily Grammar and Daily Business Exercises, which provides quick tutorials and practice activities for a range of functional business language used in, for example meetings, etc.

Business idioms
Business idioms : This is a link to an activity on the www.better-english.com website that focuses on 20 commonly used business idioms. And here's link to a page where you can learn a new business idiom every day: learn-english-today

Money
Money : Try this money quiz from the UsingEnglish.com website. On this website you'll also find a wealth of other resources for improving your English. For example there's a wide range of Grammar Quizzes, Phrasal verb quizzes, (here's one for phrasal verbs with the word " cut ", many of which are often used in business), and so on.

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