Vocabulary.com Review

Recently I came across this website called http://www.vocabulary.com/ .I discovered that this is an amazing vocabulary building tool. Some of the interesting aspects of this website are

• Facebook Login
• GRE and GMAT style of questions which further help in exam preparation.
• A social game environment with ability to compare the learning experience with other users of the site or your Facebook friends who use this site.
• Encouraging tokens of good performance when you get a specified set of questions right in a series.
• Adaptive learning
• Repetition of words and questions which were answered wrong once so as it get meaning the registered in the mind
• graphical tools to track progress and performance
• Quick reference dictionary and thesaurus
• 40000+ questions
• The system builds a model based on your performance as you progress and tries to teach words that you most probably do not know based on the model
• last but not the least its free

I have personally learnt a lot of new words with the help of this site. All my friends whom I suggested this site gave an extremely positive feed back. This is one resource where the domain name says it all.

simple morals well expressed

Nijamu cheppu nijamu cheppu nijamu neeku raksha ra
Yentha varalaina kuda neeku eduru nilachinaaa
Nijamu cheppu nijamu cheppu neeku bhayam adelaraaa
Gunde pagili neeku madina sokamentha ponginaa
Nijamu cheppu nijamu cheppu nijamu neevu cheppa raaa
Paina vunna minnu virigi mannu paina koolinaa
Nijamu cheppu nijamu cheppu neevu nijamu chepparaa


The above is a great dilogue from the famous Tamil movie Talapathi which was dubbed in Telugu as Dalapathi. I admire the beauty of expressing such great moral in very simple yet poetic way. It vaguely translates to the following.


Say truth always... truth protects you
Irrespective of the size and power of opposition you face... say truth
Say truth even if you are frightened to take the side of truth
Even if your heart breaks and sadness engulfs you... say truth
Even if you are buried under the debri of the shelter you were under... say truth
Always say truth