Language Resource: Memidex

Take a look at Memidex, a free dictionary and thesaurus. It offers multiple definitions and suggests synonyms. English language learners will find it especially helpful.

For instance, I looked up "class" and it gave me separate links to 15 definitions, some having to do with education, elegance or social standing, biology, and the abbreviation for classified advertising. With so many synonyms and examples of specific uses, Memidex is a great compliment to OneLook or dictionary.com, a student favorite which allows users to improve vocabulary by signing up for an email word of the day.

Love Looking at Visual Tools

Check out Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary which looks up words and clarifies definitions.

This free resource allows uses Princeton University’s WordNet, an opensource database built by University students and language researchers. Useful for writers,journalists, students and teachers.

New Words Added to Oxford English Dictionary

It's about time that the word "high-maintenance" was added to the Oxford English Dictionary. So many friends and relatives are high-maintenance that their pictures should be added to the definition area. Maybe that's why they also added the word chill-pill.

My husband's favorite word "argh" has been added. I guess I shouldn't be surprised about the word "high-maintenance" when they finally just added the word "Internet"! Who are these people and what planet are they living on?