Matching Game: Hard Words

Flip two cards at a time and match the hard words. Some of these words are long, some are hard to spell, and some are both, so each one takes a little more effort to hold in your head than a simple picture.

How to remember the words#

Turn each word into a picture before you try to remember where it is. Split it into sounds and build a scene from them. Defenestration might become a deaf fence being thrown out of a window, which is also what the word means. This is the same approach memory athletes use in the words event at competitions.

Then place each picture on a location in a memory palace, one location per position on the board. When you see the partner card later, walk back through the palace to find it.

Build your vocabulary#

If you want to remember what these words mean as well as where they are, see our guide to memorizing vocabulary.

Try another matching game or see all of our free memory games.