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Word of the Year 2022<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Word lovers, vocabulary learners, teachers and students: it is time to start thinking about the Word of the Year 2022! Write a short essay reflecting on the Year of 2022. After writing, choose the word that you feel is most key to your essay. It will be your word of the year<\/a><\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wordsmyth Writing Tool<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Don’t be discouraged by the essay writing. Check out Wordsmyth’s new writing tool<\/a>! It is designed to help you communicate your ideas. One of the useful support features offered by the writing tool is Synonym Substitution<\/strong>. This feature gives you choices of synonyms that can help you convey your exact meaning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After writing or pasting your text into the editing box, click the “analyze” button with the “Include Synonym Substitution” option checked. Words having synonyms or similar words will be underlined in the analyzed text. Click any underlined word to see the color-coded list of synonyms available for that word. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read the writing tools user guide<\/a> to learn more the features that can support your writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vocabulary Notebook<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Requested by our teachers for years, Wordsmyth’s Vocabulary Notebook is now online<\/a> along with our other Vocabulary Activities. We’re happy to announce that teachers can now print out Vocabulary Notebook material using their chosen wordlists or assign Vocabulary Notebook activities to students digitally. Students can work on their assignments either online or with print-outs from the teacher. They can also work online first and then print out what they have done. Working digitally allows students to download images to illustrate their vocabulary words. These images along with text that they have inputted will appear in their print-outs. Both digital and print modes allow and encourage manual creation of images to illustrate vocabulary as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As you use the Vocabulary Notebook, please share with us your experiences at support@wordsmyth.net<\/a>. Our team will continue to improve the activity with your feedback. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Special announcement for users who love our old quiz makers<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

At your request, we won\u2019t remove our old activities next summer. They are available under the Vocabulary Center menu – listed as “Legacy Activities<\/a>“. In the meantime, we will continue to develop and improve the new Vocabulary Center Activities to accommodate all that was offered in the older version and more. We hope someday you will move to the new version, with satisfaction in using its new features.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We recommend that you try our new Wordlist Maker<\/a> with the new activities<\/a> under the Vocabulary Center top menu. It may take some time to get used to the new features in these activity makers. Here is\u00a0a user guide<\/a>\u00a0 to\u00a0help you master the learning curve quickly.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new vocabulary system has the following advantages:<\/p>\n\n\n\n