5-a-Day Vocabulary
Five new 11+ words every weekday — meaning, example sentence, synonyms and antonyms — then a short test on Saturday on the week’s words. Choose Year 4 or Year 5 words; new words arrive automatically every week.
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This week’s words
5 new words a day · Saturday testPick a day and tap a word to see its meaning, an example sentence, synonyms and antonyms. On Saturday everyone can take the test on all 25 words — members can take it any day and revise every earlier week.
Monday’s 5 words
Meet your 5 words
Read each word out loud. Can you guess what it means before you flip the card?
Tap the dots or arrows to go to any word. “Not yet” means you will see it again.
Show all 5 with meanings
- appearance (noun) — the way someone or something looks
- contrast (noun) — the state of being strikingly different from something else
- college (noun) — an educational institution or establishment
- altitude (noun) — the height of an object or point in relation to sea level
- benefit (noun) — an advantage or profit gained from something
Well done!
You learnt all 5 of Monday’s words.
- appearance — the way someone or something looks
- contrast — the state of being strikingly different from something else
- college — an educational institution or establishment
- altitude — the height of an object or point in relation to sea level
- benefit — an advantage or profit gained from something
Tuesday’s 5 words
Meet your 5 words
Read each word out loud. Can you guess what it means before you flip the card?
Tap the dots or arrows to go to any word. “Not yet” means you will see it again.
Show all 5 with meanings
- changeable (adjective) — liable to change
- attempt (verb) — to make an effort to achieve something
- aggressive (adjective) — ready or likely to attack or confront
- confidential (adjective) — intended to be kept secret
- controversy (noun) — prolonged public disagreement or heated discussion
Well done!
You learnt all 5 of Tuesday’s words.
- changeable — liable to change
- attempt — to make an effort to achieve something
- aggressive — ready or likely to attack or confront
- confidential — intended to be kept secret
- controversy — prolonged public disagreement or heated discussion
Wednesday’s 5 words
Meet your 5 words
Read each word out loud. Can you guess what it means before you flip the card?
Tap the dots or arrows to go to any word. “Not yet” means you will see it again.
Show all 5 with meanings
- public (noun) — ordinary people in general; the community
- loyalty (noun) — a strong feeling of support or allegiance
- pledge (noun) — a solemn promise or undertaking
- sane (adjective) — having a sound mind; not mad or mentally ill
- accustomed (adjective) — used to something
Well done!
You learnt all 5 of Wednesday’s words.
- public — ordinary people in general; the community
- loyalty — a strong feeling of support or allegiance
- pledge — a solemn promise or undertaking
- sane — having a sound mind; not mad or mentally ill
- accustomed — used to something
Thursday’s 5 words
Meet your 5 words
Read each word out loud. Can you guess what it means before you flip the card?
Tap the dots or arrows to go to any word. “Not yet” means you will see it again.
Show all 5 with meanings
- chaos (noun) — complete disorder and confusion
- correspond (verb) — to communicate by exchanging letters
- system (noun) — a set of connected things or parts forming a complex whole, in particular
- parallel (adjective) — (of lines, planes, surfaces, or objects) side by side and having the same distance continuously between them
- awkward
Well done!
You learnt all 5 of Thursday’s words.
- chaos — complete disorder and confusion
- correspond — to communicate by exchanging letters
- system — a set of connected things or parts forming a complex whole, in particular
- parallel — (of lines, planes, surfaces, or objects) side by side and having the same distance continuously between them
- awkward
Friday’s 5 words
Meet your 5 words
Read each word out loud. Can you guess what it means before you flip the card?
Tap the dots or arrows to go to any word. “Not yet” means you will see it again.
Show all 5 with meanings
- beautiful (adjective) — pleasing the senses or mind aesthetically
- drought (noun) — a prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall
- disappointed (adjective) — sad or displeased because someone or something has failed to fulfill one's hopes or expectations
- companion (noun) — a person or animal with whom one spends a lot of time
- ceiling (noun) — the upper interior surface of a room
Well done!
You learnt all 5 of Friday’s words.
- beautiful — pleasing the senses or mind aesthetically
- drought — a prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall
- disappointed — sad or displeased because someone or something has failed to fulfill one's hopes or expectations
- companion — a person or animal with whom one spends a lot of time
- ceiling — the upper interior surface of a room
The test checks all 25 words from this week.
Saturday test: this week’s 25 words
The weekly test opens on Saturday for everyone. Members can take it any day of the week.
Earlier weeks
Members can revise every earlier week with a review test, any time.
- Week 1 5 Octisolation, custom, reveal, promote, contribute, earnest, superior, disappear, equipment, comprehend, traitor, release, occupy, deposit, curb, community, content, sly, declare, environment, commence, oath, habitat, thrust, communicate
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