Vocabulary Builder

Vocabulary Builder

    Improve Your Writing

  • Boost your vocabulary
  • See words in the context of real sentences
  • Learn by association and by definition
  • Master a new lexicon!

Get Started Below

Vocabulary Word

Word: excerpt

Definition: selected passage (written or musical) taken from a longer work; V.


More Vocab Words

::: omnipresent - universally present; ubiquitous
::: impugn - dispute or contradict (often in an insulting way); attack as false or questionable; challenge; gainsay; CF. fight
::: serendipity - gift for finding valuable things by accident; accidental good fortune or luck; CF. The Three Princes of Serendip
::: advert - refer
::: peddle - travel about selling (wares); CF. foot
::: consign - send to a person or place for sale; deliver officially; entrust; put into the care of another; set apart (for a special purpose); N. consignment; CF. consignor, consignee
::: spangle - small shiny metallic piece sewn to clothing for ornamentation
::: umbrage - resentment; anger; sense of injury or insult; Ex. take umbrage at his rudeness
::: countermand - cancel; revoke (an order)
::: nullify - make invalid; make null; invalidate