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Vocabulary Builder by Magoosh – Word Game Review
Vocabulary Builder by Magoosh is a Word/Education game from Magoosh, first launched in 29th June 2014.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 6,985+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Vocabulary Builder by Magoosh Stand Out
Build your vocabulary with Magoosh's free vocabulary game for your iOS device. Quiz yourself every day to learn the 1200 most important words!
• 1200 vocab words picked by an expert tutor
• Definitions and example sentences for every word
• Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced vocabulary sections
• Beat levels to unlock new words
• Track your progress as you study
This app gives you free access to all of Magoosh’s general, GRE, SAT, and TOEFL vocab quizzes. Sign in with a Magoosh account (or create a new one) to save your progress to the web. You can continue your practice online at http://gre.magoosh.com/builder/vocabulary
Created by experts
The entire wordlist is selected and defined with usage examples by Magoosh’s expert tutors, led by Chris Lele. He has been teaching the GRE for more than 10 years, runs a popular vocabulary series on YouTube and he’s also written an eBook on vocabulary. He is unbeatable in Scrabble, or any other word game for that matter.
Designed for fun and learning that really sticks
Each level you beat unlocks a harder one: more words and more advanced vocabulary. Words you don't know will be repeated until you master them, using spaced repetition which has been shown to be a very effective memorization strategy.
About Magoosh
We're an online test prep company with a focus on teaching the GRE, GMAT, SAT, and TOEFL through videos and personalized customer support.
In addition to our online course, we blog about words, roots, formulas, grammar, problem solving, quantitative reasoning, and reading comprehension along with study guides and study tips. Articles from the blog have been compiled into 3 separate free ebooks with over 6,000 downloads. Check it out at http://magoosh.com/
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This Word game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Vocabulary Builder by Magoosh is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 6th January 2020
Recent improvements include:
Minor bug fixes
Download & Availability
Vocabulary Builder by Magoosh is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Vocabulary Builder by Magoosh on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
The only thing we would say that needs improvement is the voice that pronounces the words for you. Its a bit difficult to hear.
Free and fun. We already recommended it to our husband.
This game is so good AND is free AND doesnt have ads. Its genuinely perfect!!!! We started using it instead of scrolling and its rly intellectually stimulating and teaches you a lot honestly.
We're definitely learning a lot of new words, and even new ways to use old words. We always appreciate free apps.
This is an excellent way to refresh ones vocabulary for everyday language. We want more sections and options.
Very effective to enrich Vocubulary power.
Really good review when used with the standard 500 vocabulary set.
Easily built a routine with this app.
Nice app, prepping for PSAT this is really good, we recommend to people who are trying to prep for big tests.
We love this app because it has a variety of words to learn and explains them with little ads which is a huge plus for us.
This vocabulary builder by magoosh is pretty cool . We enjoy learning new words everyday with this app because it helps expand out our vocabulary words.
Challenging and useful words. Truly enjoyable.
We were looking up how to further expand our verbal fluency.. And found this app. We have a few others but keep switching to this one because it has so many different words, others only have a few and put them in catagories like "relationship","body",Travel". This app is superior compared to the others we have and im glad we found it. Words come in sections you complete. If you miss a word they randomly give it to you again, in the current section, and have to you get the one you got wrong, right. A few more times before you move on. We started out easy, as we thought we had a bad vocab despite everyone telling us our vocab is big. & chose harder from there, im currently at what we think is the hardest section, & hardest level of that section and still not struggling. ( we reccomend harder sections) but we also expect it will get harder as we continue? Although keeping everything that is too, because we have been talking to new people lately, and they cant understand what im saying because our "big words"..words we have always used.im talking words like – imply,perceive,analyze,insinuate. Anyways.. On with it, we have so many more words to learn that we never knew, that we forgot existed, so many words to use&confuse people with.
Im now on level 3. Its enjoyable and we are thrilled to be expanding our vocabulary.
One of the best starting point for your gre prep.
This app is easy to use and makes enhancing your vocabulary fun.
Very simple and straightforward app. Good for sharpening your vocabulary.
Our dusty tomb-like mind thanks this company. Im ashamed of our lack of reading and writing the past few years. This helps in the meantime.
Smegma is a word; therefore, it must be in this app.
Excellent study guide or just want to improve your vocabulary. We enjoy the app.
Easy to learn new words and the meaning.
Id give this app 5stars so far soo good.
Great way to pass the time and develop ones working vocab.
This app has really helped us with our vocabulary.
As someone who wants to improve their vocabulary, we find this quite useful. We try to do this every day. This has helped us in school for writing and vocab. We just wish the definitions were longer. They might get longer the more you play. So we cant make a fair judgement. All in all, we give it 5 stars.
We love it keeps us on our toes!! Love that it goes back to the words we did from the jump we love it its helping us when we reading a book and we come across a word we learned on here !! Makes the story a lot more understandable. Live it.
This app is fun and educational. Our grandsons are headed to high school and they like using it to boost their vocab skills.
This app helps build your vocabulary, as well as provide a pleasant learning experience. Im just starting off with the app and we can say that this app is the paragon in the field of vocab building apps.
We like using this app; it is beneficial when learning new words.
The most user-friendly app for learning vocabulary for GRE. Simple and practical without annoying ads.
We know that we have a lot of head knowledge but putting our thoughts into words was needing a strong vocabulary. This app is exactly what we were looking for! Thank you so much.
We have seeking for such learning app eventually we got this one.
This game will assist anyone improve their interpersonal communication skills. Student will become more familiar with words on academic exams.
This App is one of our favorite Vocabulary Builders! Its very helpful and a wonderful addition for writers and authors. If you are bored with your writing, because you reuse the same words over and over, this will enhance your vocabulary. Your writing will improve because you will be able to increase the quality of each word. Instead of using 5 words to describe something, you will use the one BEST word.
Its helping us a lot to learn new vocabulary, English is our second language and this app is a great resource to learn and understand new words, highly recommended.
Simple, easy, and very informative.
Helpful to learn new words and practice. While also being free. A lot of apps nowadays wants subscriptions but this can do everything those others can and is very simple.
For learners of all levels, this app is a great resource.
Amazing app; very developed and informative.
Simple and effective at building your vocabulary. Spend 1 minute or 30 minutes on the app, whichever works for you. We find ourselves coming back to the app from time to time as a vocabulary refresher.
Im a comms study major and we feel that im slacking on our vocabulary. This app is really helping so far, we just finished basic level, we needed to remember some words before we get to the tough ones lol! But id recommend this app definitely for a student that writes a lottttt of papers ;).
We enjoy this app for testing our vocabulary and self confidence. We graduated college many years ago and have forgotten many words we have come across in this app. Its a great memory test to see how much we do remember and thats very satisfying. Marilyn.
Great app for expanding your vocabulary and learning To think fast.
This app is proving to be very beneficial to the development of growth in expanding our vocabulary as well as our overall knowledge. Our advice to anyone who has been out of school for quite some time it would be advantageous to continue learning – this app helps.
We love this app soo much!! It helped us in ways we never thought possible:)).
We think this app is great for learning new words and providing context for them. Our only unsolicited suggestion would be adding the part of speech for each word in parenthesis. Not only is context important in discerning a words meaning; the function a word plays in a sentence can drastically influence meaning. While oftentimes the spelling betrays the part of speech, thats not always the case.
Its a extraordinary app but please add some images with those words as well as Bengali language meaning and examples in the words, keep in mind thay 1 lacs student appear IELTS exam every year from Bangladesh. There is no suitable app for ielts learning in our country. We use your beautiful application and service. So, please consider our suggestions. Thank you for your legendary efforts in IELTS preparation.
We wish there were more ways to review the words instead of just picking the right answer among the choices.
This game makes it easy to learn new words for exams like the SAT, GRE, etc. We are more of a quizlet person and this is the perfect app for vocab.
Fun way to test your word power.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.0.3
- Size: 14.35 MB
- iOS: 9.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
- Developer: Magoosh
Last updated: 6th January 2020 | Genre: Word, Education | Developer: Magoosh