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List of Common Adverbs

  A  abnormally absentmindedly accidentally acidly actually adventurously afterwards almost always angrily annua lly anxiously arrogantly awkwardly B  badly bashfully beautifully bitterly bleakly blindly blissfully boastfully boldly bravely briefly brightly briskly broadly busily C calmly carefully carelessly cautiously certainly cheerfully clearly cleverly closely coaxingly colorfully commonly continually coolly correctly courageously crossly cruelly curiously D daily daintily dearly deceivingly delightfully deeply defiantly deliberately delightfully diligently dimly doubtfully dreamily E easily elegantly energetically enormously enthusiastically equally especially even evenly eventually exactly excitedly extremely F fairly faithfully famously far fast fatally ferociously fervently fiercely fondly foolishly fortunately frankly frantically freely frenetically frightfully fully furiously G generally generously gently gladly gleefully gracefully gratefully greatly greedily ...

Make Your Own Personal Dictionary

Make Your Own Personal Dictionary If you can get your hands on a dictionary, a bilingual one or a target language only dictionary, you'll be in the clover when learning English or another foreign language. Be sure to highlight new words you need from reading through a short target language magazine or newspaper article. But if a dictionary in your target language is non-existent or unavailable, you can make handy little flashcards with today's group of words on one side and their meanings in English (or your Mother tongue) on the other side. Tuck a few of these in your pocket or purse to quickly refer to as you go through the day's activities. You'll pick up essential vocabulary on a daily basis. In scant weeks you'll be using your flashcards less and less as you internalize the new vocabulary. When the first batch is "learned", start another batch. Remember, they say that you can never be too rich, too thin or have enough foreign language vocabulary. Fore...

A Dictionary and Thesaurus: a Writer's Most Important Tools

A writer is sitting at his desk trying to work on an article that is due tomorrow. He knows what he wants to say, but he just can not seem to put it into words. He decides to pull out his trusty thesaurus to try to find the right words to convey his message. The writer finds some words that he thinks will fit perfectly into his article, but he is not sure, because they are outside his vocabulary. The writer consults his dictionary to make sure that the words he has found actually describe the meaning he is trying to convey. After consulting his most important tools, the writer completes his article, and is very happy with his finished product, and so is his editor. A dictionary is a great tool for any writer’s arsenal that can expand your vocabulary, and help you find the words that you need when you are writing. You definitely want to pull out your dictionary when you think that a word will fit in your writing, but you are not quite sure about the word’s meaning. Also the dictionary c...

English Dictionary

English-English : 1. Learner’s Dictionary Babylon: http://www.manythings.org/daily/ Cambridge: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/ Collins: http://www.collins.co.uk/wordexchange/ Encarta: http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/dictionaryhome.aspx Longman: http://pewebdic2.cw.idm.fr/ Newbury House: http://nhd.heinle.com/activities.aspx Oxford: http://www.oup.com/elt/catalogue/teachersites/oald7/lookup?cc=th WordCentral: http://www.wordcentral.com/index.html Wordweb: http://www.wordwebonline.com/ 2. Advance’s Dictionary American Heritage: http://education.yahoo.com/reference/dictionary/ http://www.english-dictionary.us/ http://www.hyperdic.net/doc/wordnet.htm http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ http://www.webster-dictionary.net/ Merriam-Webster: http://www.m-w.com/ English-Thai: http://www.siamdic.com/search.php http://www.thai-language.com/dict/ English-Thai: Thai-English http://lexitron.nectec.or.th/index1.php http://www.cyberdict.com/ http://www.ethaimusic.com/dictionary/ind...