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Vocabulary Level 8 · College Prep Essentials flashcards

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Written against: Our own grade placement (VOCABULARY-PLAN.md): word frequency (wordfreq, CC BY-SA 4.0) and editorial review; no publisher's grade or word list is reproduced. Updated 2026-10-10.

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Learn · 8 decks · 534 cards

Concepts, mechanisms and the questions a course or exam asks about them.

Set 1: Meanings The 100 most common of the 400 College Prep Essentials words, from respectively and framework to watershed: pronunciation, a plain academic definition and three example sentences, the most common use first. 10 free · 100 cards in the app Set 1: In Context Fill the blank: 34 of the Set 1 words, each in a new academic sentence whose clues point to exactly one word. 10 free · 34 cards in the app Set 2: Meanings The next 100 words of academic reading and writing, from cohort and criterion to variance and nomenclature: pronunciation, a precise definition and three example sentences, the most common use first. 10 free · 100 cards in the app Set 2: In Context Fill the blank: 33 of the Set 2 words, each in a new academic sentence whose clues point to one word (where a second also fits, the back says so). 10 free · 33 cards in the app Set 3: Meanings The third 100 of the 400 College Prep Essentials words, from correlate and confer to outlier and brevity: pronunciation, a precise definition and three example sentences, the most common use first. 10 free · 100 cards in the app Set 3: In Context Fill the blank: 33 of the Set 3 words, each in a new academic sentence whose clues point to one word (where a second also fits, the back says so). 10 free · 33 cards in the app Set 4: Meanings The fourth 100 of the 400 College Prep Essentials words, from opacity and posit to triangulate and juxtapose: pronunciation, a precise definition and three example sentences, the most common use first. 10 free · 100 cards in the app Set 4: In Context Fill the blank: 34 of the Set 4 words, each in a new academic sentence whose clues point to exactly one word. 10 free · 34 cards in the app

Drills · 4 decks · 133 cards

Short answers and cloze blanks for the facts you simply have to know cold.

Set 1: Quick Drills Meaning to word: 33 of the Set 1 words, from a fresh one-line definition back to the word itself. 10 free · 33 cards in the app Set 2: Quick Drills Meaning to word: 34 of the Set 2 words, from a fresh one-line definition back to the word itself. 10 free · 34 cards in the app Set 3: Quick Drills Meaning to word: 33 of the Set 3 words, from a fresh one-line definition back to the word itself. 10 free · 33 cards in the app Set 4: Quick Drills Meaning to word: 33 of the Set 4 words, from a fresh one-line definition back to the word itself. 10 free · 33 cards in the app

Practice · 4 decks · 133 questions

Multiple-choice practice questions, one best answer each, with the reasoning.

Set 1: Practice Thirty-three sentence-completion questions on the Set 1 words: four choices, one blank, and why the tempting wrong answer fails. 6 free · 33 questions in the app Set 2: Practice Thirty-three sentence-completion questions on the Set 2 words: four choices, one blank, and why the tempting wrong answer fails. 6 free · 33 questions in the app Set 3: Practice Thirty-four sentence-completion questions on the Set 3 words: four choices, one blank, and why the tempting wrong answer fails. 6 free · 34 questions in the app Set 4: Practice Thirty-three sentence-completion questions on the Set 4 words: four choices, one blank, and why the tempting wrong answer fails. 6 free · 33 questions in the app

Study guide

Topics covered

The decks follow the order of the course outline. Numbers are cards per topic.

  • Character & Behavior 28
  • Feelings & Attitudes 20
  • Thinking & Knowing 122
  • Speaking & Arguing 138
  • Actions & Effort 42
  • Change & Growth 74
  • Size & Amount 94
  • Quality & Judgment 104
  • Society & Power 124
  • Nature & Time 54

A study plan

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  • 15 new cards a day covers everything in two months, leaving the last weeks for review.
  • 10 new cards a day covers everything in three months, leaving the last weeks for review.

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About these cards

Review status: Second-reader reviewed, with corrections applied.

Checked against:

  • Senses, parts of speech and sense order checked against Merriam-Webster.com, the American Heritage Dictionary and the frequency-ordered Oxford, Longman and Cambridge learner's dictionaries; all definitions, notes and example sentences are original.
  • Grade placement is our own, from wordfreq frequency data (CC BY-SA 4.0) and editorial review; no publisher's grade or word list is reproduced.
  • OpenStax Biology 2e, consulted as a reference; no text copied.
  • OpenStax University Physics Volume 3, consulted as a reference; no text copied.
  • OpenStax World History, Volume 1, consulted as a reference; no text copied.
  • OpenStax U.S. History, consulted as a reference; no text copied.
  • Facts in example sentences checked against NASA, the National Weather Service, the WHO, the World Bank, the U.S. National Library of Medicine, HealthCare.gov, USA.gov, the Forum of Federations, the Nobel Prize site, the Monterey Bay Aquarium, the UNESCO World Heritage Centre, the APA Dictionary of Psychology, the Stanford and Internet Encyclopedias of Philosophy, Wolfram MathWorld, the U.S. Statutes at Large, The Trustees, university pages and library exhibitions (UIC, Columbia, Arizona, Boston University) and peer-reviewed papers (Nature, Europe PMC); no text copied.
  • Deutsches Historisches Museum, LeMO (dhm.de/lemo), consulted, not copied.
  • Senses, parts of speech and sense order checked against Merriam-Webster.com, the American Heritage Dictionary and the frequency-ordered Oxford and Cambridge learner's dictionaries; all definitions, notes and example sentences are original.

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