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Our dictionary database is updated for 2025! Wordsmyth puts great effort each year into keeping its dictionaries up to date. In 2024, we focused particularly on the expansion of the newly released…
Wordsmyth Teachers Guide
Here is a quick overview of Wordsmyth features, including Wordsmyth dictionaries at all levels, vocabulary tools, and teacher tools. This guide can help educators make good use of Wordsmyth dictionaries and tools so that students may be helped to improve their vocabulary as well as their reading and writing skills.
Weekly Quiz
With the Wordsmyth Vocabulary Center activities, you can study the words of the week, play games with them, and assess your knowledge of their meanings with a quiz. Go to the Vocabulary…
banal
adjective lacking originality or liveliness; disappointingly ordinary; commonplace; trite.His whole speech amounted to one banal thought: that people are not all alike. See the full entry
debase
transitive verb to reduce in value, quality, esteem, or character.Severe inflation debased the nation’s currencyThe scandal debased the politician in the eyes of the voters. See the full entry
epigram
noun a short, pithy, often paradoxical sentence.“Youth is wasted on the young” is a popular epigram. See the full entry
deride
transitive verb to ridicule or treat with scornful mockery.They derided him for his unorthodox beliefs. See the full entry