Sunday, March 2, 2008

Online graphical dictionary

Visuwords™ is an online graphical dictionary where you can look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. This site is especially useful for those who get easily confused between words and their associations. The technique used to represent the words and their associations is similar to mind mapping, hence a lasting impression of the word remains in your mind. You can produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net and learn easily how words associate.

You can enter words into the search box to look them up or double-click a node to expand the tree. Click and drag the background to pan around and use the mouse wheel to zoom. Hover over nodes to see the definition and click and drag individual nodes to move them around to help clarify connections.

This site will be particularly useful for those who are planning to take English language tests such as TOEFL® or the GRE® (useful for verbal section) or IELTS™, and as the people at Visuwords put it:

"It's a dictionary! It's a thesaurus!
Great for writers, journalists, students, teachers, and artists.
The online dictionary is available wherever there’s an internet connection.
No membership required."

Its very easy to use. For example I did not want to repeat the word 'especially' so checked it up on visuwords to get a similar word 'particularly'. Its as simple as that. Recommended for all.

To go to the Visuwords website click here.
To go to the Visuwords Full view website click here.

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