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How to use Online Learner Dictionaries

  • by Oxford University Press ELT
  • Posted on February 17, 2021February 17, 2021

Learning new vocabulary and using it in context is one of the most important ways…

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  • General English

What is a Hothouse? We define Hothouse WITH examples

  • by Oxford University Press ELT
  • Posted on January 12, 2021February 1, 2021

The green-fingered among you may be familiar with the concept of a hothouse: a heated…

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  • General English

What is a ‘Freegan’? Understanding Dietary Vocabulary

  • by Oxford University Press ELT
  • Posted on December 8, 2020December 8, 2020

Wind the clock back twenty years and most people, except perhaps a small proportion of…

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  • General English

What does ‘Permaculture’ mean? Understanding ‘Portmanteau’ words.

  • by Oxford University Press ELT
  • Posted on November 10, 2020February 1, 2021

Climate change and organic have become household words, but are you familiar with a related…

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  • General English

Elbump | Word of the Month

  • by Oxford University Press ELT
  • Posted on July 31, 2020August 28, 2020

As we adapt to living with COVID-19 until we find a vaccine, some people have…

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  • Academic English

Homing in on language change | OALD

  • by Oxford University Press ELT
  • Posted on March 2, 2020June 1, 2020

Two wrongs don’t make a right… but there sometimes comes a point when a ‘mistake’…

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  • General English

‘Pwn’ has made it into the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary!

  • by Oxford University Press ELT
  • Posted on February 3, 2020June 1, 2020

Psst! How many words can you think of in English which have no vowels (tsk…

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  • General English

Fiction, TV and Film vocabulary | Oxford 3000

  • by Oxford University Press ELT
  • Posted on December 10, 2019January 9, 2020

Do you know these words connected with fiction, TV and film? They are some of…

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