How to Write Better; Improve Your Vocabulary With 5 Free Tools
If you are not a linguist or English is your second language, these free tools can help you write with a better vocabulary.
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6 min readFeb 21, 2020
I remember the first English class I had at The Faculty of Philology in Serbia (Southeast Europe) when our lecturer Jonathan Pendlebury told us:
“Forget words good, bad, OK, and interesting. Try to find equivalent synonyms for them.”
But how? we freshmen thought.
God, it was hard to write in the Pre-Internet era. You spent so much time flipping through dictionaries. I hated it. I thought I would never become a translator.
Now I use online tools to make my sentences better. And natives do that as well.
Here’s what I work with to brush up my English so I don’t sound like a robot or a 10-year old:
Online Oxford collocation dictionary
Sometimes all you need is to check if 2 words go well together.
