How To Use Vocabulary.Com To Learn New Words?

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Сообщение alex789 »

I know some of you, guys, are using Vocabulary.com to learn new words.
I am not that stupid when it comes to learning new things, but I still cannot understand how it works.
When I visit it, this website starts bombarding me with quizzes like:
right means:
perpendicular
precautionary
peculiar
persistent
It's boring, I don't see the words I've learned, don't have any lists at all.
I am not that persistent to keep guessing.
Maybe, you could share your tips on how to use this massive online depository so that I could see my progress and so on?
Yo!
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alex789, why cannot you see any word having been learnt by you?

I think "perpendicular" is the word you must have learnt before, isn't it?
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alex789 пишет: 07 ноя 2018, 17:15 I know some of you, guys, are using Vocabulary.com to learn new words.
Those guys are no longer on this forum ((

Vocabulary.com has about 10000 word definitions+quizzes and all of them are not from top 3000 freq list. This service is for native learners (school children).

If you at B1/B2 level I can't imagine what should force you to learn useless infrequent words from Vocabulary.com.
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One thing that you may not understand is that service allows you to load you own word lists (in a batch with no more then 500 words per each upload).

In this way you won't see "perpendicular" but only useful words. You decide what you learn, not the system with random choice from 10000 word list.

I am not arguing about Vocabulary.com resource quality. It has actually great word descriptions.

When I loaded VOA 1500 list site rejected half of the words. I believe they were too simple or too rare.
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