Vocabulary

Words I keep meeting in serious reading — news, essays, textbooks — with the meanings that matter and a sentence I have actually seen used.

The trick with vocabulary, I have come to believe, is not how many words you have studied but how many you have met three times in real text. A word you saw once in a flashcard app and never again is not a word you know. The lists below are meant to be re-read, not memorized. Log in to mark the words you already know and track your progress.

More lists will be added over time, in batches I can actually remember.