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Make Your Point, Jr. is a free place to learn words. It's also a tutoring program. In this program, students develop a strong, confident command of the English language. They read excellent texts, write with close guidance, and learn to select words with grace and precision.

▼Super-Duper-Popular▼ | Super-Popular | Popular | Specialized | Super-Specialized We need these words all the time! They're among the top 5,000 most frequently used in our entire language. active   adjust   admire, admirable, & admiration   appreciate   arrival   assist   attempt   attention & attentive   bold   coax   company, companion, companionship, & companionable   compete   content (the adjective) & contentment   corrupt, corrupted, & corruption   curious   cycle   dam & damn   delicate   delight   depend, dependent, & dependable   desperate   devastated   devote   discover & discovery   distinct   distract   doubt, doubtful, & doubtless   duty & dutiful   eager   effort   elegant, elegantly, & elegance   exhausted   expensive   fierce   form   fragile   gather   genuine   haul   hazard & hazardous   insist   invent   method   motivate   pace   participate   perceive, perceptive, & perceptible   persist, persistent, & persistence   phenomenon   plenty   precise   privilege   purpose, purposeful, & purposeless   radiant & radiance   refuse   reject   remark, remarkable, & unremarkable   replace   reply   request   reserve & reservation   resist & resistance   resolve & resolution   return   sacred   satisfied   scatter   seize & seizure   solution   strain   suit & suitable   summit   supplies   transform   vary, various, & variety   withdraw

Super-Duper-Popular | ▼ Super-Popular ▼ | Popular | Specialized | Super-Specialized We need these words very often! They're among the top 10,000 most frequently used in our entire language. abundance   appetite   arc   astonish   awe, awesome, awestruck, & awe-inspiring   chore   clasp   cozy   cramped   crisp   dazzle   defy & defiant   despise & despicable   dim   discreet & discretion   disguise   filth & filthy   frantic & frantically   gasp   gauge   glisten   graffiti   greed & greedy   hobby   immerse, immersive, & immersion   intent (the adjective) & intently   irritate, irritating, & irritable   jeopardy & jeopardize   keen   linger   lumber   luminous   menace & menacing   miniature   murmur   noble   novice   nutrient, nutritious, & nutrition   oblige, obligate, & obligation   odor, deodorant, & deodorize   omen & ominous   plank   plaster   predicament   reckless   refreshing   relish   reluctant & reluctance   rigorous   robust   shoulder (the verb)   sinister   soothe & soothing   squint   stubborn   stun & stunning   surge   thunder (the verb)   verge   vibrant   vivid   wince

Super-Duper-Popular | Super-Popular | ▼ Popular ▼ | Specialized | Super-Specialized We need these words regularly! They're among the top 20,000 most frequently used in our entire language. amble   appall   apprehensive   awry   blurt   boisterous   brook   careen   caress   chafe   chasm   clutter   colossal   concerted (the adjective)   concoct & concoction   desolate & desolation   dextrous   din   disconcert, disconcerted, & disconcerting   distinctive   eavesdrop   elated   euphoric   exasperate   fathom   filter & infiltrate   frigid   furrow   furtive   glint   glower   gnaw   gobble   hoard   homesick   incandescent   jab   jostle   livid   melancholy   mellow   mischief & mischievous   misplace   mosaic   nifty   nondescript   permanent   petrified   poise   puny   quail   ramshackle   ransack   raucous (vs. ruckus)   recoil   rouse & rousing   rue, rueful, & ruefully   seethe & seething   serene & serenity   shamble   sheepish   shimmer   snicker   splatter   staid   sweltering   teamwork   teem & teeming   tenable & untenable   throng   tidy   timid   tumult & tumultuous   unite & reunite   urge   wan   whimper   wisp & wispy   wistful   zenith

Super-Duper-Popular | Super-Popular | Popular | ▼ Specialized ▼ | Super-Specialized We need these special, specific words to express ideas with clarity and precision. We'll bump into them once every few months or so if we read for an hour a day. calligraphy   curt   debonair   déjà vu   ditto   disarming   doppelganger   ennui   flabbergast   flounce   glum   listless   prim   romp   scrounge   shoo   snivel & sniveling   xerox

Super-Duper-Popular | Super-Popular | Popular | Specialized | ▼ Super-Specialized ▼ Sometimes, we need these extra-special, extra-specific words to express ideas with a high degree of precision. If we read for an hour a day, we might bump into them once a year or so... or never! akimbo   discombobulate   yammer

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