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12/26/25 — Word Search Moved
To search for a word, look toward the bottom of the main menuThis site focuses on exploring academic words through literature. Usually, that is done by selecting a book and looking at selected words from it. Since there are only about 6,000 academic head words with 25,000 inflected/derived word forms, searching for a specific word can be frustrating.
12/26/25 — Page review status more apparent
Data pages say "Edited" or "Auto-generated" toward the top to make it apparent if an editor has done a fair amount of editing on the page, or if it is primarily auto-generated by algorithms without significant review. This information is also highlighted in the information we encourage search engines to show.12/26/25 — Improved Vocabulary List page for each book
Vocabulary List pages default to showing sample sentences from the book when all top-ranked words & samples were approved by an editor. Otherwise, they default to showing exemplary sample sentences (which are more likely to have been reviewed). If you want a simpler list, you can choose "none" from the "Samples" picklist.You can toggle between the sample sentences you want to look at. We encourage looking at exemplary sample sentences prior to reading the book and book sentences after reading it.
12/26/25 — Eliminated Top-100 Word Lists by Interest
They were seldom used and harmonizing them with new display changes would have been time-consuming.12/26/25 — Much editing
Much data was edited.If you're a teacher with a book you'd like edited more, please let us know. If it's a book with multiple editions, let us know what edition your class uses, so we can ensure those page numbers are shown.
06/03/24 — Page numbers for multiple editions
When page numbers are carried for a book, the screen will show the page number of the default edition. Press the [alternate pg] button to see page numbers of different editions of the book.If page numbers for an unlisted edition will help your class, please let us know which edition of the book we should add.