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Make Your Point, Jr. is a free place to learn words. It's also a tutoring program. In this program, students develop a strong, confident command of the English language. They read excellent texts, write with close guidance, and learn to select words with grace and precision.

▼Super-Duper-Popular▼ | Super-Popular | Popular | Specialized | Super-Specialized We need these words all the time! They're among the top 5,000 most frequently used in our entire language. active   adjust   appreciate   arrival   assist   attempt   bold   companion   compete   curious   delicate   delight   desperate   devastated   devote   discover & discovery   distinct   distract   duty & dutiful   eager   effort   exhausted   expensive   fierce   fragile   genuine   hazard & hazardous   insist   invent   motivate   pace   persist, persistent, & persistence   phenomenon   plenty   precise   reject   replace   reply   request   reserve & reservation   resolve & resolution   satisfied   scatter   seize & seizure   solution   suit & suitable   vary, various, & variety

Super-Duper-Popular | ▼ Super-Popular ▼ | Popular | Specialized | Super-Specialized We need these words very often! They're among the top 10,000 most frequently used in our entire language. abundance   appetite   astonish   chore   clasp   cozy   cramped   defy & defiant   despise & despicable   frantic & frantically   gasp   gauge   glisten   greed & greedy   hobby   irritate, irritating, & irritable   keen   linger   lumber   menace & menacing   miniature   noble   novice   oblige, obligate, & obligation   plank   plaster   predicament   reckless   refreshing   relish   reluctant & reluctance   rigorous   shoulder (the verb)   sinister   squint   stubborn   stun & stunning   thunder (the verb)   verge

Super-Duper-Popular | Super-Popular | ▼ Popular ▼ | Specialized | Super-Specialized We need these words regularly! They're among the top 20,000 most frequently used in our entire language. boisterous   caress   clutter   din   eavesdrop   euphoric   exasperate   fathom   glower   gobble   hoard   incandescent   jab   melancholy   mischief & mischievous   misplace   mosaic   nifty   permanent   petrified   puny   quiver   seethe & seething   sheepish   sweltering   tidy   timid   unite & reunite   urge   whimper   wisp & wispy   zenith

Super-Duper-Popular | Super-Popular | Popular | ▼ Specialized ▼ | Super-Specialized We need these special, specific words to express ideas with clarity and precision. We'll bump into them once every few months or so if we read for an hour a day. déjà vu   disarming   doppelganger   ennui   flounce   scrounge   shoo   xerox

Super-Duper-Popular | Super-Popular | Popular | Specialized | ▼ Super-Specialized ▼ Sometimes, we need these extra-special, extra-specific words to express ideas with a high degree of precision. If we read for an hour a day, we might bump into them once a year or so... or never! akimbo   yammer

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