Etyma: Word Roots & Vocabulary

2.0 is the biggest update Etyma has had — it grows from "understanding roots" into "practising until they stick". · A whole new practice system — four new question types (spelling, dictation, sentence gap-fill, and Chinese-to-English) join the existing meaning quiz, root assembly and flip-card self-check, so one word family can be drilled seven different ways. You now pick the type yourself instead of letting the app decide · Mastery and the family map — every word carries its own mastery level that brightens as you practise. Open a family and the whole set lights up cell by cell, so what's solid and what's shaky is obvious at a glance · Drill just the weak ones — pull out the words you're least sure of in a family and focus on those, instead of spending time on words you already know · Mistakes come with an explanation — get a spelling or choice wrong and you'll see a morpheme-level comparison showing exactly which part slipped, not just a red cross · Quizzes count — practice sessions now feed your streak and study heatmap, so the work you put in shows up · A fuller daily challenge — set your own question count (5–50), and missed questions land in your mistake bank for review from the summary screen · Long-press to jump — long-press any root, affix or word row and the shortcut menu opens grouped into Learn / Practise / Look up, so you don't have to open a detail page to find the entry point. Now covered consistently across every list in the app · Lists show what you want — in word lists that same menu ends with toggles for phonetics, the meaning bridge, morpheme glosses, examples and collocations, and each list remembers its own setting. Compact when you're skimming, detailed when you're digging in · A much fuller library — CET-4 collocations now reach 100% coverage (1,587 words), every entry has a real example sentence with context, and broken morpheme example links are down to zero · Plenty of polish — tap a word for a half-sheet card, US/UK markers on phonetics, nicer share posters, and hundreds of smaller refinements Thanks for using Etyma!