Online Class: Enhance Your Everyday Vocabulary

Increase your vocabulary at your own pace with this online vocabulary course. Through interactive lessons and well-structured writing exercises, you will learn interesting and relevant vocabulary words and how to incorporate them in your daily conversations and writings.

Self-Paced, Online Class

Somerset Public Library

20

Lessons
41

Exams &
Assignments
15

Hours
average time
1.5

CEUs
Video Audit
Available

Course Description

Master the Art of Language: Elevate Your Vocabulary Online Course

Imagine being in the middle of an engaging discussion, and suddenly, a word pops up that you're not familiar with. Perhaps it's a word you've encountered multiple times, such as 'plethora'. While you vaguely recall its meaning, you aren't confident enough to use it in your conversations or writings. Whether you missed out on certain vocabulary lessons in school or simply need a refresher, our comprehensive online course is here to bridge that gap.

Why Enhance Your Vocabulary?

A robust vocabulary not only bolsters your communication skills but also elevates your self-confidence. Engaging in business meetings, social gatherings, or academic discussions becomes more enriching when you can articulate your thoughts succinctly and compellingly. Beyond professional and social interactions, having a vast vocabulary also aids in solving puzzles like crosswords and triumphing in games like Trivial Pursuit.

Course Structure and Features

Our course offers a flexible learning approach, allowing you to assimilate new words at a pace that suits you – be it 10 words a day or even a week. The course encompasses 20 meticulously crafted lessons, each focusing on ten distinct words relevant to various contexts. These range from words rooted in foreign languages, culinary terminologies, and literary terms to those used in technology, business, and even philosophy.

Here's a glimpse of what to expect:

Interactive Sessions: Dive deep into the origin, meaning, and application of each word. You won't just be memorizing; you'll understand the context, ensuring long-term retention.
Practical Applications: Practice makes perfect. Use the newly learned words in sentences and paragraphs, ensuring that they become a part of your active vocabulary.
Comprehensive Coverage: From words with tricky pronunciations and those often interchanged mistakenly to descriptors for human traits and words from various cultures, our course covers a broad spectrum.
Bonus Writing Assistance: While the primary focus is vocabulary enhancement, we also provide guidance on effective writing, helping you craft impeccable content.

Sample Lessons Include:

Lesson 4: Words with Pronunciation Pitfalls - Delve into words that are often mispronounced and learn the correct way to articulate them.
Lesson 10: Technology Words - In an era of rapid digital advancement, stay updated with terms that dominate tech discussions.
Lesson 15: Legal Vocabulary - Understand the jargon used in legal circles, ensuring clarity in legal discussions or documentations.
Lesson 20: Philosophy and Theory - Grasp complex philosophical terms that can make scholarly discussions more insightful.

Enrich Your Conversations and Writings

Gone are the days when you would feel out of place in a conversation or hesitate to pen down your thoughts. By the end of this course, you'll find yourself wielding words with precision, impressing peers, and feeling a renewed sense of confidence. So, embark on this linguistic journey and rediscover the joy of learning and using a diverse range of words. Join us and invest in a skill that will benefit you for a lifetime.

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Course Motivation

Is a limited vocabulary holding you down?

Have you found yourself using a word in a conversation, only to humiliate yourself by mispronouncing the word, or using it incorrectly?

If you're ready to sway your five cent words for "fifty cent words", then this course may be the perfect prescription for success.

This class consists of 20 interactive lessons that will add an additional 200 words or phrases to your vocabulary repertoire. This is an intermediate vocabulary course, and demands at least a ninth grade English reading aptitude.

By the time you’ve completed the course, not only will you have boosted your vocabulary, you’ll know how to pronounce, understand AND use the words in both written sentences and general conversation. More than that, though, you’ll have gained a long-lasting ability to commit words of interest to memory--as needed!

All of the lessons are broken down into relevant categories, such as:

Words used by experts
Words from the restaurant industry
Business and economics lingo
Legal phrases
Technology terminology,
And more!

All reading materials and lesson supplements are conveniently attached to each lesson, so there's no need to purchase additional books or riffle through notes and papers to find what you're looking for.

Discussion and interaction are encouraged, and several methods are available to make communication simple and effective.

Improving your vocabulary can, literally, spell success. Failing to do so can spell disaster. There are any number of reasons that boosting your word power can pay off, with benefits both large and small:

To position yourself for a promotion
To showcase your personal expertise
To gain comfort and confidence in new subjects and fields
To be a better Scrabble™ player
To breeze through crossword puzzles
Or, simply to "Wow!" your friends and loved ones

Regardless of your motivation for revving up your vocabulary, Instructor Cathleen Glenn has come up with a proven, step-by-step method for not only memorizing hew vocabulary words, but also using them flawlessly and confidently.

There's an old saying: "Once you use a word three times, it's yours." This class utilizes the truth of this statement to the max. Over the course of each lesson, you'll use each new word a total of at least three different times...

You'll read and uncover the origins of each word, including examples
You'll practice using each of the words in an assignment sentence and in the forums
Additionally, you’ll be able to test your knowledge in end of lesson quizzes, mid-term tests and your final exam.

The course contains a total of 20 comprehensive lessons, each focusing on a different category or topic:

Lesson 1: Introduction to Increasing Your Vocabulary

Lesson 2: Some Words Rooted in Foreign Languages

Lesson 3: Suffixes

Lesson 4: Words with Punctuation Pitfalls

Lesson 5: Having to do with Food Preparation

Lesson 6: Literary Terms

Lesson 7: Words Describing Human Traits

Lesson 8: Words Used in Testing

Lesson 10: Technology Words

Lesson 11: Words the May Deceive You

Lesson 12: Expanding your Description Vocabulary

Lesson 13: Roots

Lesson 14: Descriptive Adjectives and Human Traits

Lesson 15: Legal Vocabulary

Lesson 16: Words from Many Cultures

Lesson 17: Business & Economic Terms

Lesson 18: Words for Human Abnormalities

Lesson 19: Human Behavior

Lesson 20: Philosophy and Theory

Each lesson must be completed sequentially. In order to progress to Lesson 2, you must first fully complete Lesson 1, and so on. This course will be graded on a total of 185 points. End of lesson quizzes are worth 6-8 points (there are a total of 19). The mid-term is worth 20 points, and so are you final exams and classroom participation.

While the primary objective of this course is to improve your vocabulary, there are some fringe benefits included in the package. One of them is the positive impact this coursework will make on your writing skills as well.

Not only will assignments require that you create sentences using the new vocabulary word, you'll also be responsible for crafting short paragraphs using the words. Decades of educational experience clearly indicates that learning retention is boosted when multiple methods are employed. Instructor Glenn knows and understands this principle, and used it as the foundation the lessons and materials were built upon.

Best of all, this class gives you the freedom to work at your own pace.

There's no need to juggle your schedule around to make it to class on set days or times. This flexibility extends to classroom communications as well, and there are a host of ways that you can get (and stay) in touch with both the instructor and the rest of your classmates.

Enrollment is open 24/7, so register today to take your vocabulary to dizzying new heights.

Areas of Study

Course Lessons

Average Lesson Rating:

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Lesson 1: Introduction to Increasing Your Vocabulary
Introduction to Increasing Your Vocabulary
Lesson 2: Some Words Rooted in Foreign Languages
Lesson 2: Some Words Rooted in Foreign Languages
Lesson 3: Suffixes
Lesson 3: Suffixes
Lesson 4: Words with Pronunciation Pitfalls
Lesson 4: Words with pronunciation pitfalls.
Lesson 5: Having to do with Food Preparation
Lesson 5: Having to do with Food Preparation
Lesson 6: Literary Terms
Lesson 6: Literary terms
Lesson 7: Words Describing Human Traits
Lesson 7: Words Describing Human Traits
Lesson 8: Words Often Interchanged
Lesson 8: Words Often Interchanged
Lesson 9: Words Used in Testing
Lesson 9: Words Used in Testing
Lesson 10: Technology Words
Lesson 10: Technology Words
Lesson 11: Words That May Deceive You
Lesson 11: Words That May Deceive You
Lesson 12: Expanding Your Description Vocabulary
Lesson 12: Expanding Your Description Vocabulary
Lesson 13: Roots
Lesson 13: Roots
Lesson 14: Descriptive Adjectives and Human Traits
Lesson 14: Descriptive Adjectives and Human Traits
Lesson 15: Legal Vocabulary
Lesson 15: Legal Vocabulary
Lesson 16: Words from Many Cultures
Lesson 16: Words from Many Cultures
Lesson 17: Business and Economic Terms
Review words relating to business and economics.
Lesson 18: Words for Human Abnormalities
Lesson 18: Words for Human Abnormalities
Lesson 19: Human Behavior
Lesson 19: Human Behavior
Lesson 20: Philosophy and Theory
Philosophy and Theory

Learning Outcomes

By successfully completing this course, students will be able to:

Define some words rooted in foreign languages.
Define suffixes.
Recognize words with pronunciation pitfalls.
Define word having to do with food preparation.
Recognize literary terms.
Define words describing human traits.
Identify words often interchanged.
Recognize words used on standardized tests.
Identify words that may deceive you.
Define and recognize word roots.
Define adjectives for human behavior and human abnormalities.
Recognize words from many cultures.
Define common legal terms.
Demonstrate mastery of lesson content at levels of 70% or higher.

Additional Course Information

Document Your Lifelong Learning Achievements
Earn an Official Certificate Documenting Course Hours and CEUs
Verify Your Certificate with a Unique Serial Number Online

View and Share Your Certificate Online or Download/Print as PDF
Display Your Certificate on Your Resume and Promote Your Achievements Using Social Media

Course Title: Enhance Your Everyday Vocabulary

Course Number: 57700119

Lessons Rating: 4.5 / 5 Stars (4,663 votes)

Languages: English - United States, Canada and other English speaking countries

Availability: This course is online and available in all 50 states including: California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Texas, and Washington.

Last Updated: December 2023

Course Type: Self-Paced, Online Class

CEU Value: 1.5 IACET CEUs (Continuing Education Units)

CE Accreditation: Universal Class, Inc. has been accredited as an Authorized Provider by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET).

Grading Policy: Earn a final grade of 70% or higher to receive an online/downloadable CEU Certification documenting CEUs earned.

Assessment Method: Lesson assignments and review exams

Instructor: Dana Kristan

Syllabus: View Syllabus

Student Testimonials

"Thank you for allowing me to do this course. I Loved it so much and now I know more words and new meanings for them." -- Nissa F.
"The instructor was very helpful and explained the lessons well in her course materials. She is positive which is good for student's progress." -- Danna A.
"My instructor was positive and encouraging in her feedback to my lesson assignments." -- Cathy J.
"Daphnee is a wonderful instructor! The vocabulary exercises were very helpful." -- Nancy F.
"The course was very helpful but difficult. I enjoyed it, and also learned a lot from it. Thank you." -- Fatema S.
"The instructor was proficient and very able." -- Michael K.
"Course is very helpful and the instructor seems to be have good command in English. Good collection of words for enhancing the vocabulary." -- Neha B.
"The instructor was extremely helpful and answered my questions almost immediately. This course was so much fun!" -- Donna N.
"I enjoyed expanding my vocabulary in general, particularly with regards to more specific adjectives than I typically have at my command." -- Diana L.
"Enlightening course, very thorough instructor." -- Bonnie V.