Well, it isn’t that much longer and a mass has a different connotation as in being big and bulky.
I can’t really always predict which of my suggestions for the definitions will be obvious to you and which won’t.
In this case I wasn’t sure what you meant with 1. I assumed you meant this to be abstract. But since you say you meant both abstract and concrete then the difference between 1. and 2. seems quite small.
About 2. There are many words meaning “come together”: could be in a meeting, group, bundle or fusion. I added “in one place” because that is to me the very essence of the word. I know this word mainly from math and physics. When I read the dictionaries again the words that jump out to me are “meet in one point or place”. When a learner is confronted with the definition for this word there should be something there that makes it obvious which word is sought.
Hi, I wanted to say thank you to all those who are tirelessly working to improve this course. This course has helped me immensely to improve my English. You’d be surprised to know how many words from the list pop up in the quiz show “who wants to be a millionaire” (and quite a few of them get it wrong)
Hi,
First I’d like to thank you for this great, constantly improved course.
Second - I just want to direct your attention to the word “native”. There are two definitions like that for different words.
You probably mean endemic and indigenous, There is also aboriginal in level 49. They were already on the list of confusing words that @stream_nine90 was working so hard on before he suddenly disappeared from the forum 11 weeks ago. I’ve been waiting for his return (and in the meanwhile still been slowly adding audio to the words).
For now I’ve edited these 3 words according to the new definitions stream_nine90 had already written and added synonyms to the new synonyms column.
Thank you all for your efforts! I appeciate your work very much! Some words are still missing audio and if you find the time to add audio I would be very grateful.
Hi, I can help with adding audio.
According to this web page https://developer.oxforddictionaries.com/ we can download 3k audio files (in general the definitions of the words) per month for free, and if I have a list of words I can easily download the mp3 - I wrote a program to do that.
But I’m not aware if I can upload multiple audiofile at once, is it possible?
You can program that is great. Some people use TTS to generate large amounts of audio files quickly and write their own scripts to upload them. old thread
About using Oxford Dictionaries API, I doubt that downloading their audio for use on Memrise is in line with their terms and conditions (not read through all that). And you have to comply with those and give your personal data including even your business name if you want to use their API for free.
Hi, @duaal
Finally they answered me, and from one point of view generating audio using their API for Memrise is fine, but from the other side it is not allow to store the audio. So I’m very sorry but we cannot us it.
I will investigate how this bulk scripts to upload audio work.
By the way, do you think that using audio from Forvo is allowed?
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I know it’s more than late now to comment on the thread but I found it an interesting topic about SAT. Do you still have the course available for this one in 2019?
@Ang
Thanks for the heads-up. Just corrected the entry.
Because of vandalism I recently had to restore hundreds of definitions for the words. And also the column with extra information and even the course information which were totally deleted. There were just a couple of copying errors I made during this restauration but I think I’ve got them all now.
If you find any further problems you can of course report them here.
I like this course and use it to improve my English vocabulary. It really helps me a lot, so thsnk you for creating it. The audio helps me to better remember the words, but I am now at a point (900 words learned) that for the new words audio is not available. Are there any plans to add more audio?
(and quite a few of them get it wrong)
Fixed.