Usage notes from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary
Usage Notes
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- AWL Collocations
- These notes help you to use words from the Academic Word List in typical combinations and phrases.
- Grammar
- These notes help explain points of grammar that often cause problems.
- Language Bank
- These notes show you how to express similar ideas in a variety of ways, particularly in writing.
- More About
- These notes give you more information about an aspect of life or language in the United States and show you the correct words to use.
- Thesaurus
- These notes shows synonyms of a word, together with examples of how the synonyms are used and information about the differences between them.
- Topic Collocations
- These notes show useful words and phrases connected with particular topics, and a selection of verbs to use with those words and phrases.
- Vocabulary Building
- These notes help you to choose more interesting and varied words to use, and so increase your vocabulary.
- Which Word?
- These notes show the differences between words that are often confused.
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AWL Collocations:
- accuracy
- accurate
- achieve
- acknowledge
- assume
- available
- aware
- awareness
- clarify
- clarity
- conclude
- contribute
- create
- dissimilar
- distinct
- emphasis
- emphasize
- estimate
- evaluate
- evident
- globalization
- globe
- identify
- illustrate
- inaccurate
- indicate
- insignificant
- interpret
- investigate
- involve
- irrelevant
- predict
- relevant
- rely
- significance
- significant
- significantly
- similar
- similarity
- summarize
- summary
- theoretical
- theory
- unavailable
- unaware
- valid
- validate
- validity
- vary
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