Vocab Builder

Become a faster reader and a more articulate writer and speaker with Brainscape’s 1,000-flashcard-strong collection of sophisticated and occasionally challenging English words and word elements! Vocab Builder has been carefully curated to improve your mastery of the more complex and expressive words in the English language and by leveraging the very science of learning, will help you do so faster than any other language app, tool, or game.

Vocab Builder is one of three flashcard classes in Brainscape’s ‘Get Smarter’ initiative, which strives to make the world a smarter place to live by providing everyone, everywhere with a free, well-rounded, baseline education in the essentials of academia (Knowledge Rehab) and life (Street Smarts).

And you can access them all for FREE.

Improve your vocabulary every day

A bigger vocabulary goes the distance in helping you communicate more eloquently with peers and superiors; it can help you feel more confident in professional and academic environments; and BE a better, more efficient, and articulate communicator overall. Vocabulary is the building blocks of language. Become a master of yours!

Benefit from a study system that uses Brainscape's unique Confidence-Based Repetition process and customized flashcard repetition algorithm to help you learn in the fastest, most efficient way that is customized for YOU.

Plus, being accessible via Brainscape’s web and mobile app for Android or iOS, you can sneak in vocab practice anytime and anywhere, empowering you to learn as many new words a day as you can manage (while also reviewing the words you previously learned).

How does Brainscape help you learn faster and remember for longer?

The brain is hardwired to learn and remember information a certain way. The Brainscape™ flashcard app was born out of the question: what if we leveraged this hardwiring to help students learn more efficiently? Fueled by curiosity, our team of cognitive scientists from Columbia and Yale spent years developing a scientifically optimized learning platform to boost your learning.

Our "secret sauce" is a learning algorithm that delivers information to your brain in a way that optimizes its ability to retain that information. And it’s the spaced repetition of vocabulary at precisely the right interval for YOUR brain that makes Brainscape so effective for remembering the facts.

With Brainscape’s Vocab Builder, you get:

Over 1,000 flashcards with many of the most useful, yet difficult words in the English language, complete with definitions, sample sentences, and synonyms. Over 300 “word elements” flashcards with common prefixes, suffixes, and roots Easy access to study online or in Brainscape's mobile apps. A spaced repetition learning system customized to your pace of learning. Bookmark tools to make it easy to quiz yourself or your classmates. Lots of scores, analytics, and progress metrics so you can easily track your studies and build good study habits. Social features and leaderboards to see how your progress compares to other people around the world. Ongoing feedback, stats, and visualizations to help you track your progress.

Get the app and become a more effective communicator!