Find words quickly: Find on Page

From the main contents page of Learn These Words First, you can find words quickly by using your browser's "Find on Page" command. In many browsers, you can show the "Find" box by pressing the Ctrl+F or Cmd+F keys.

In the "Find" box, type the first several letters of the word you want to find. This will highlight the matching word on the contents page.

Then click the word to go to its definition.

To go back to the contents page, press your browser's "Back" button.

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See your progress

Learn These Words First keeps track of which questions you answered correctly in each lesson.

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You can see all your progress on one page by clicking here: Show Progress.

On this page you can also click the "Clear Progress" button if you want to erase all your progress and start over.

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How to use this dictionary

First make sure you have learned the 360 words from the lessons. You can learn or review these words by going through the lessons and answering the questions.

Each lesson is divided into groups of three or four words. After each group of words, there is a question to test your understanding. You will see a sentence containing a blank space, followed by three blue phrases that could go in the blank space. Click the best phrase to answer the question.

After you have learned the 360 words from the lessons, you can read the definitions for the other 2000 words in Learn These Words First. They are all explained using only the 360 words from the lessons.

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